Lots of martial arts practice. Getting better at Karate and having fun, but making very little progress at Kendo.
Also I'm struggling with being quite broke, although a lot of friends of mine will have their birthdays during the next weeks and I have no money to buy gifts or make gifts myself.
This week is "volunteer week" (or whatever I should call it in English) in my town. Most of it is happening in our biggest and centermost shopping mall. Today I was sitting at a table in that mall representing a self-help group that I am part of. It's a group for computer gaming addicts. Lots of self help organisations and groups were there to represent themselves to the public. But most people walkig by were minding their shopping business.
But I had one touching conversation with a woman who told me that her daughter is totally immersed in her internet activities and is neglecting and throwing away her real life. That Mom was really desperate, but there's not much she can do unless her daughter understands she's addicted and genuinely wants to change. :-(
So I'm now thinking about starting another self-help group for family/ relatives/ friends of computer/ gaming/ internet addicts, because they are facing a very specific set of problems, different from the problems of the gaming addicts themselves.
Tomorrow I'll be sitting in the shopping mall again - this time representing my church.
The pastor's wife has sent everyone an email with some hints and instructions and she mentioned that we may get some negative responses because we are christians. So I'm a bit scared about what kind of spiritual warfare I might find tomorrow.
On the weekend I'll be in a christian retreat place for a meeting with some of the other leaders of a christian summer camp where I had my first big leadership experience this summer. In july I basically went right from the psychiatric hospital into being a leader of a part of the camp site, caring for the well-being and the organisation of the camp-life of almost 100 people for an entire week.
I really had an epic summer this year.
The camp and the leadership went very well for me, it was scary and exciting, I made a number of new friends and I felt very blessed and alive and purposefull like hardly ever before in my life.
So this weekend there will be a kind of late debriefing of the camp leaders and some planning for next year. I just really don't like that retreat place where we are going to meet, but I'll survive that.
Sorry for writing so much.