I thought I'd share some of my history with you just to fill you in. Here goes:
Once upon a time i was taken along to the Boys' Brigade at the age of 6. Since then I've been to the BB as its affectionately known every week i was available. That's quite a long time. So when I reached the grand old age of 18 i decided i couldn't bare to leave and so found myself as a leader in my local company to try and pay them back for the good times I'd had. It had always been a place of friends no matter who you were and i could always count on a night to cheer me up.
If you don't know it, the Boys' Brigade is a Christian Youth group for 5-18 year olds. A night teaches you anything from sports to Bible study, learning all sorts. Not to mention the parents love getting a bit of piece and quiet. Now i wasn't particularly christian and rarely went to church but it even gave me that consistent link to God as loose as it was he kept me in sight.
Of course when i moved to Uni some might have thought I'd leave it behind, but something made me keep at it and i soon found another Boys Brigade Company nearby and despite communication problems i turned up at the door and was welcomed in. I'd at that point met a whole new family, and this one was big. The people i could depend on from then till now. I took leadership training and became a warrant officer in the Boys' Brigade being taught a basic understanding of working with kids, learning new games and analysing how to run activities well.
This led me into getting a lot more involved and hopefully I have helped in bettering some of the boys' lives. I took to working with kids quickly and it became more enjoyable to me perhaps then engineering. Thus the first crack appears in my plans.
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