On Monday morning, we all gathered into the big room to have our ‘Fairy Tale Christmas’ picture taken for the Outlook and the North Shore News.
In the afternoon we practiced our play.
Tuesday morning, we sang Advent songs and then we worked in our workshops. In the afternoon, the eurythmy group went to Waldorf High school and practiced for the play, another group went to Bridget house and did clay and the last group stayed at the centre and painted.
In the evening some of the co-workers and companions went to the Christmas ‘Just singing ‘round’ to play Christmas songs on the bells.
On Wednesday morning, Monique and Takashi got Christmas trees for the three houses, Kaspar House, Sophia House and Cascadia House. Also the farm group went and got hay bales for our Christmas celebration at the Centre.
After lunch, we broke into two groups – one group did reading and writing and the second group did painting.
This week in our Thursday morning college, John, Takashi, and Phyllis taught us about the plant kingdom which is made up of flowers, grass, trees and vegetables. John taught us that plants grow under ground and above the ground’s surface. After that, Felix taught us about flowers. We learned that flowers come in different shapes, sizes and colours. They also have different meaning – like a rose represents death and a dandelion represents jealousy. Then Takashi came up and talked about vegetables. There are root vegetables (carrots, potatoes, wasabi), stalk vegetables (asparagus, green onions, celery), leaf vegetables (spinach, lettuce), fruit vegetables (tomatoes, pumpkins) and flower vegetables (cauliflower, broccoli). After our lesson, we sang ‘Happy Birthday’ to Joe.
After a short break some of the companions went to Waldorf School and practiced for the play the last time. The rest of our companions stayed back and practiced the bells. In the afternoon, we rehearsed all the music in our play.
Friday morning, everybody worked in their work shops and in the afternoon we stayed at the centre and sang songs with Forrest.
