TOO DOPE TO COPE

Today was much better, thankfully! I might have finally shaken the post-run tiredness!

We started the day at Mary Webb for an assembly. Greeted by the wonderful Miss Pugh probably helped to shape the mood of the day. What a fantastic woman she is, always making us feel so incredibly welcome. I can't tell you the difference it makes to deliver assemblies when you know, and the kids know, that the staff are completely behind you.

At college today we were joined by the lady who runs Shropshire Loves, a fairly new charity working with homeless and displaced people, both locally and overseas. A fascinating woman. She was a bit of a property tycoon but lost millions in the economic crisis and ending up using a Food Bank for her and her son. From being a Food Bank user, to a volunteer, she then ended up organising caravans to be donated to Calais and seemingly endless other projects. She's visited Calais, Lesbos and Lebanon on numerous occasions and told us one story she'd heard of babies being thrown over the side of boats if they cried too much, so that the boats wouldn't be discovered. Horrendous.

Part of what she does is sell donated vintage clothes and so we modelled a few things. Andy's top TOO DOPE TO COPE reminded me of this morning's assembly where Andy rapped, which I told Lea about. She made him do it again, right there in college and then I made him perform ShropHop. Now she wants to commission him to write a spoken word about refugees.

I was going to run after work but ended up in the library. Running is good but books are better.