Sophie and Tamara are finding it hard to settle in Norfolk. I’m amazed really, but then I suppose it is a big change to go from living together in hospital accommodation in the middle of the biggest city in Scotland, to sharing a house in a crappy part of a bleak county and both trying to adapt to new jobs. I wouldn’t know as I’ve never taken a chance like that, but I hope it works out for them. Mostly because it’s so nice having my older sister nearby again after her years up in Edinburgh. From what she’s told me, I think she’s perfectly happy with what’s happened, but Tamara isn’t so sure they’ve made the right move. It’s tougher for her, I guess, because she’s left the nursing profession to work in a new environment so just about everything in her life is different now. Sophie, at least, is still doing technically the same job, and has returned to an area she is familiar with as she grew up here. I hope Tamara gets into it because I can’t imagine Sophie wanting to move again, so if Tamara leaves Sophie probably won’t go with her, and I can’t imagine the two of them not being together. Sophie and Tamara being apart would be like having a takeaway pizza without lager, it just wouldn’t seem right at all.
As one sister struggles and suffers, the other goes from strength to strength. Hannah is now reading all the teacher training info I got through the post and says she’d love to work with children. She’s volunteered to help out with an Activities Group for children that Nathan’s church run during the Summer Holidays. She’s also contacted a few local theatres to see if she can help run after-school drama clubs and acting classes. She says Performing has helped her find her true, confident self and she’d like to help youngsters to experience something similar. Sometimes, when I talk to her, I wonder what happened to the girl I used to live with a few years ago, and my only conclusion is ‘Body Snatchers’
RC 11-6-13
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