As everybody by now knows, I started my year long volunteer job with the Brighton Center. I’m the Housing Support Vista Volunteer. My main job for this year is to work on creating a resource list that is full of housing information from agencies around the Northern Kentucky area. Plus, I’ll be creating a tracking system on how these agencies use this resource list and what they think about the resource list. That is my main goal for this year. Other things I’ll be doing is helping Brighton Center counselors with any help in regards to housing. This first week was very information packed! My first task is to meet like 17 different program coordinators to help me better understand the different programs that Brighton Center has but also let them know who I am and see what I can do for them during my year service.
So, in this first week, I had a lot of information given to me and I also read a lot of information. Already did a few things like reformatting the apartment listing and working on another document that they wanted reformatted. Plus, I started setting up appointments with the different coordinators that must be done by the end of October. Been reading a lot of information about Brighton Center and the programs they offer. This upcoming week is going to be as busy because I already have something like seven meetings all this week and more to come. Not to mention continuing to get the computer and office the way I want it. I’m very much going to enjoy working there.
Now on the TL’s front, things are going pretty good. My mom would be proud of me because I’m using a gift that she gave me a long time ago when I graduated with my bachelor degree back in 2002. She gave me a briefcase that I have mainly been using to carry odds and ends things whenever I move and then it sits in the closet. Really didn’t have anything to really use it for until now. So, I have dusted it off, re-organized the inside, and stuffed it with work from Brighton Center. Are you proud of me mom?
I have to start acting and looking professional now. I guess I better look and act like one? My friend Chris commented on how professional I sounded on the phone. Not to mention I have been taken steps to keep myself more professional and making sure that I don’t get any complaints similar to the ones I did at other jobs. For example, where I’m currently staying here in Delhi, it takes me two hours to get to work. I get up at 5:30 am every weekday morning. I walk from the house to the bus stop on Delhi Pike to wait for a bus. That is maybe a quarter of a mile if that. Then I take a 40 minutes bus trip downtown to Government Square in Cincinnati. Where then I walk from there to Ann Street in Newport. A very long walk (roughly 45 minutes) but I love it. So, as you know, I’m a big person that sweats a lot. Well, now I’m not wearing my work shirt but I’m carrying it with me in my briefcase. Plus, I have deodorant and cologne in my office now. I didn’t do this in the pass. So, when I get to work in the mornings, I go and change my shirt to a clean shirt and reapply deodorant and etc. That way, I’m hoping it will help me eliminate the complaints I got at the other jobs at this new job. This is all part of me trying to work on things I know I need to work on. But I do this walk twice a day and I love it! But with winter coming won’t be doing it that much though. Hopefully not at all as I’m trying to get housing closer to the Brighton Center.
Which brings me up to the next thing which is housing. I took a step toward gaining a new place to live this week as well. Just waiting to hear that it has been accepted. I filled out my Butler Foundation paperwork today. If they get accepted then it’s in a positive step toward gaining a place. As of right now, even if I did find a place to live, I wouldn’t be able to the utilities into my own name because I owe Duke Energy, and my last landlord money. This could keep me from getting my own place. What the Butler Foundation does his it will pay off those past bills if they accept it. So, in doing my paperwork, we also added my cell phone bill. So, hoping that all three of these bills get paid! Keep your fingers crossed. Once I know about those, then things really open up when it comes to finding housing because not only will those bills be paid off, I’m also available for the Hearth Program as well. The Hearth Program will pay for my rent and/or utilities for up to a year. So, that is another huge help on my part.
Wow, look how much I wrote? I guess I bored you all enough for now. I’m trying to get more involved in writing sooner rather than having a long wait between blogs. Keeping praying for me and call me if you know my number!
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