Finally, an update

It's impressive that it has been quite a while since I've updated here. There have been several times where I've begun to type out an entry and then been like, "Nah...I can't do that." It's about time that I posted something, though.

Quite a bit of work has been done in the woodlands for the youth project lately. To get the land levelled out some more, we had to move several things from the bottom of the woodlands to somewhere further up. A lot of that I did on my own, which surprised Richard at one point because I'd moved a lot of the stuff. Another thing that we did fairly recently was clear out a large area of hedges/branches. Honestly, I'm not sure how to refer to the area. Anyway, that was another thing I had to work on alone during the day. I'd managed to clear out a large pile of branches but had to stop because I couldn't get rid of a couple of tree branches that were in the way. I'd attempted to cut them down, but after some effort, I began to feel dizzy and decided to head to the hotel and wait for Richard and Erik to show up. A few days later, Richard and I worked on the rest together and cleared an even larger area. It was great and made a HUGE difference to that area of the woodlands.

There isn't much else I can think of currently that we'd achieved in the woodlands. I'm sure there is a lot more than just those two things, but that's all that comes to mind at the moment.

I'm unsure if this was mentioned in previous entries, but I don't think it was. Erik had returned to school after having enough confidence built up by Richard over the months he was with us. I want to say I built up some of that confidence in him. However, I don't think I had anything to do with it as I don't consider myself very confident. Two weeks after returning to school, Richard got a telephone call saying that Erik's confidence had been butchered again. It's beautiful when a school manages to do that. Because of that, he's now back with us. Richard has had to take him to his exams since he returned. At this point, it is unlikely that Erik will ever return to school again. He'll take his exams, pass, and then probably head off to college. Then again, he may keep coming to the project and stick with us. I somehow doubt that will happen, though.

On the 22nd May 2013, I finally had a meeting with the epilepsy specialist. It seems that I'll also have her backing for the ESA/DLA stuff if it is needed. That's a great thing to hear. Dad came with me, but I was wanted to do as much talking as possible so that she could see how bad I was really. As far as social interaction goes, I'm not a sociable person at all. I want to be more social, but I'm just way too shy and can't seem to break out of that habit no matter how hard I try. I'll admit that I am a little more talkative with people than I used to be, but not a lot more.