Melodies

It's been a pretty hectic last couple weeks here at the Camas Activity Centre.  The other week we had a group of students and teachers from a special needs college (the majority of the students have some form or level of Autism- the ratio of students to teachers was 1 to 1… so that may give you a slight indicator as to the level of challenge some of the students brought-needless to say it was an exciting week at Camas!) and this past we had a family week (we had about 25 parents and their children came out… and in a way that was completely different than the week before it, it was another interesting week at Camas)

As you can probably imagine, both groups brought different joys and challenges to us staff. But despite a few hectic and slightly stressful moments, it has been good. Really good.

A lot of those good moments for me had to do with music. Whether it was spending an evening listening  to people play favourite songs off their ipods;  or dancing and singing to ABBA while washing a massive pile of dishes; or listening to a young woman who speaks with a stutter, smoothly and sweetly sing "Let it Be"; or listen to any sort of musically talented person who is around me for that matter. 

Music is a pretty amazing thing. The power of it tends to blow my mind frequently.