Living in Green Acres I have a nice breakfast with the Camphill family. I help with the washing up a lot. At the gathering we sing a hymn and then I leave for work. I work at Corris doing addresses for envelopes and I pack boxes of jam jar lids for supermarkets. I also do jigsaw puzzles. I have a very nice boss. My favourite jigsaw puzzle is London Bridge and I am nearly finished it. For lunch we have oxtail and tomato soup, we have stew for the main course and for pudding we have ice cream. In the afternoon when I come home from work I do computer lessons with Lynn and I enjoy it. I love playing solitaire and like making colours game, typing stories and poems. Every Tuesday I go bowling. Recently I got a medal in the team events. I won gold. On Wednesday’s I go to the Arch Club with Mary where we dance and play bingo. On Friday nights we watched a video which was about the titanic which sunk in the sea. I like living in Greenacres because there are lots of people and it’s entertaining. I play songs by The Beatles on the piano in the evening and my favourite song is Let It Be. I enjoy our music sessions on a Tuesday evening because the band are very good. That’s all from me I hope you enjoy it.

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I have been living in Camphill Greenacres for seven months and now living in our new house Hazel with three other people which is within walking distance. The first time I saw a notice about a vacancy available in Greenacres I went for a visit and last year I decide to leave The Bridge Community after many enjoyable years there.

I cook the lunch in Hazel on Tuesdays and the six of us go bowling in The Leisureplex in Stillorgan. We are part of a new Special Olympics club. The team wear red tee-shirts. We go every Tuesday at six. I also play football on Monday’s for Stillorgan Rangers. I am the team goalkeeper and we play in division two. This is also a Special Olympics club. I look forward to watching the national games which will be held in Belfast in June.

Each Thursday I go to a gardening course which I find interesting and complete our work sheets and do practical garden work on site. I now work in The Airfield Trust, a large garden, doing a variety of tasks from weeding to planting shrubs. At the moment I work a full day and I hope to increase my working hours. I would like to expand my gardening experience and potentially go into business.

We sell Camphill crafts at a stall once a month in a market in Dublin centre. I enjoy going to the cinema and watching my favourite team Arsenal in the pub and playing the guitar. I also read books and Arsenal magazines, enjoy listening to a mixture of music from pop to rock. I like going for walks in parks and maybe do a course in photography and so to enjoy nature. We have a music evening once a month in Greenacres which is a great social night. Since I came here I am having a new experience and made lots of friends and made a special friend call Siobhán Humphreys.

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When I first came to Camphill in Dublin I had a trial for three months. I moved here because I wanted a change and to do something different. When I moved to Greenacres I was doing lots of walking and visited other places. This helped me get to know the place and now I am living here three years. I really love living here and enjoy walks especially at the weekend.

When I came here for a trial I was doing pastel art for about three months and then I was doing watercolours in Airfield as part of our class and now I am doing oil paintings. I also sold three pictures at an exhibition.

In my spare time I enjoy the cinema, particularly Shrek films. I started to do bowling last September and now I’m a member of a local club where I play every Tuesday evening with the Greenacres group. I work in Airfield Café as a waitress three short days a week. In Greenacres I contribute to the household duties. There is lots of action going on in the weavery as we create our own designs. I have designed and made table mats.

I am confident to go places by myself. I am good to Greenacres and give them a helping hand by doing messages. I have a free day by myself doing what I have to do once a week. I also do computers twice a week and enjoy typing. I do the cooking twice a week I make the lunch and whatever is needed for the house. Gardening I do sometimes but a lot in the summer. I really enjoy living in Camphill in our new house Hazel.

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One day Katri and Julie invited me to Greenacres for a visit. I really liked the place. While I was given the grand tour I met Siobhan H. Julie thought it would be a good idea for me to experience life outside Greenacres on the local farm, The Airfield Trust, as I like animals. Work in Airfield is very busy, cleaning the geese and feeding the animals.

We go bowling every Tuesday evening after a light snack. The Greenacres team all go together by minibus and everybody has a cool time.

A gang of us would set off in the minibus for the Wicklow hills frequently. We go there to have a very enjoyable walk where people are running and chasing after each other having nice chats along the way.

I enjoy going shopping with my family buying nice clothes. I also help with the grocery shopping. Quite often I go to the local cinema with my friends and family. I also like watching videos and Dvds a lot. I really enjoy watching comedy movies with all my friends.

Every Wednesday Andrew and I go to the Arch Club where we play bingo and table tennis. Later on we have some tea and cake. A bit after tea we do some dancing. Every Friday we read a novel and this month we are enjoying a book named Momo.

My really good friend is Siobhán Humpries. I really enjoy cooking and baking. Katri and I often have nice chats. I go home quite often. Julie is also my very best friend.

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I came to Greenacres by writing an article how I knew about Camphill and why did I want to come and live here? The first person I met was Katri. Every second Tuesday I go bowling with the Greenacres and some Hazel Avenue gang. I have lessons with Lynn Doyle on the computer. I have so far learned how to do a timetable, names and phone numbers and so on. On Friday afternoons I go to one of my aunts houses. Friday evening’s my friends and I go to each others houses. In Greenacres I do gardening, felting and baking. Saturday afternoons I meet up with my friends and sometimes my man Shane. Every second Tuesday there is a band playing music. Later on I may be practicing guitar with Shane Nolan for the next music session. Monday coming, Mary and I are getting a day off from our work place, The Airfield Trust, to enter a bowling competition against a location named Bray Lakers. A friend of mine and I work in the loveliest place ever, Airfield Trust which is a farm. In Airfield there are animals, a car museum, a farm museum, restaurant and a shop and so on.

In Airfield I give schools a tour on the farm. I work five days a week in Airfield. In Airfield, we had camera guys from TG4, Bull Island, Winning Streak, Garden Heaven and Off The Rails. I got taped by TG4 by a camera crew, I explained what I did with the animals I work with.