Thank You Plan-ily

It has been so wonderful working for Plan International Canada these past couple years. The cause, the people in the malls, the people I worked with, the learning about the world and about myself and about outside myself. Fundraising hasn't always been easy but there have so many takeaways, memories, lessons, skills, training and experiences, friends. I got to pick my first sponsored child and developed two of the best friendships I have ever had at the booth, and learned so much and got to go to work every day feeling good because no matter how everything else panned out it's a good cause and it's helping somebody; just like in the Starfish Story.

It helped me learn how to explain and express again verbally and non-verbally, as I am well-known for miming. (Maybe I'll update this post with some of the many notes of lines scribbled down and picked up and created to use.)

I remember the more bitter than sweet feelings of leaving World Action Awareness Club ("WAAC") in high school, the club and the people who introduced me to Plan International and the Because I Am A Girl project. I had no idea how much it would affect my life even later and how I feel about life and how to use my life and develop my skills in a better way even on a secular level.

But as they put it, "once a WAACtivist, always a WAACtivist."

Thank you so much to the people who patiently trained and gave me the chance to be a part of this. This is a good time to be moving on, but not empty-hearted. Perhaps someday I will fundraise again or maybe I won't, but either way it has been awesome Plan, keep up the great work and I'll see you in the malls.

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Note: Actually written and posted September 5th, but I moved it to another day because it makes me sad to see it to be honest, but do want to put it out there. Also, I have attempted to squeeze it in between posts so that it is documented where it really belongs in the long-term stream of thoughts. At this point it had really settled in that it just wasn't realistic for me to work there anymore with the zone changes that that I was actually leaving. At this point also was actually my last shift fundraising, but before the last campaign which was a nice awareness-only one different from usual fundraising which kind of weaned me off from there.

Heart: *sob* Let's keep going, it deserves so much.
Brain: Stop writing it's making you sad!
Gut: Ok let's stop writing and stop being sad. Keep perspective.
Brain: Remember the commute which only got worse in the new zone?
Heart: Oh yeah. 
Brain: Down tot he very end. remember that last 4-hour commute home?
Heart: Yeah that really was a reminder of what not to miss. Ok it was nice see you laterr
^ reference post: Go with Your Gut, Continued archived September 9, 2017