Tools for Solidarity (also 1000 views)

     Tools for Solidarity are this charity organisation based in Belfast. Basically what they do is repair and refurbish tools and sewing machines and send them out to Tanzania and some other African countries. Here they teach locals how to use and maintain the tools and sewing machines. My parents both volunteered for TFS about 17 years ago, that's where they met, and they've kept in contact with the people who run the organisation. They're really great people and we still go up to visit them occasionally, for the past few years I've spent a week or two of my summer holidays there. I'd spend a fair bit of my time there at the workshop fixing tools and I really love it there, that's where I've been disappearing off to in Belfast. They have a constant flow of volunteers there who usually stay about a year and they tend to be lovely. This is quite disorganised but what I'm trying to say is that they are an amazing organisation and I've been thinking of volunteering there once I'm finished school. It's kinda a big thing for me to say this because before now I've firmly held the belief that I won't have any clue of what I want to do once I've left school until I'd left school but now I think that that's bullshit, it was just my way of not planning my future which I really don't want to do. Now I know that I want to volunteer with something, even if not TFS, and that I want to travel the world a bit. I have no interest in going to college or any further education but that's me now, for all I know I could change my mind by the time that comes around, I've still got two years. I'm fairly sure my dad wants me to go to college (he does teach in one), recently he's been pressuring me to try and figure out how many points I'll want in my Leaving Cert (big end of school exams) by figuring out which college courses I'll want to get into but I honestly think that if I do go to college it'll be as a mature student so that'll no longer matter. This was meant to be fairly exclusively about TFS but turned into more so it's probably fairly impossible to follow, sorry about that. Anyway that's that, on a completely different note, the blog has hit a thousand views so cheers for that.
     See yous,
     Ruska