Can I just say that this is an incredibly hard e-mail to write? When I worked for her I was a quiet and shy eighteen year old. Even thinking about her puts me back in that space.
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I feel I must suggest that you reconsider the sorts of things you've been posting to binne. For a couple of days there it almost looked as though a conversation might be developing, but since your post there hasn't been a peep out of anyone for the past three days. Remember, binne IS intended as a list for conversation and I'm trying to get people from Northern New England to socialize, which is always an uphill battle at the best of times, so things which kill conversation should be avoided. Posts should invite informal, conversational response.
It has been suggested to me (not by someone on the list) that you might be more likely to interest people in helping if you posted about your personal experiences. She suggested you might talk about the times you've had fun in the course of helping people. (She's a teacher, and has to get people interested in the subject every day. And she's also a very good writer.)
My advice (take it for what it's worth, I'm not a teacher and I'm offering this free) is to focus on a really specific thing that happened that was fun - or heartwarming, if that's easier for you - and try to build up some detail about what lead up to that event and how it affected you. You'll find that something you thought was not significant often takes up quite a lot of space when you attempt to write down the context around it, but people seem to prefer reading a more detailed view to quick overviews - it captures their attention more, and more personally.
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I feel I must suggest that you reconsider the sorts of things you've been posting to binne. For a couple of days there it almost looked as though a conversation might be developing, but since your post there hasn't been a peep out of anyone for the past three days. Remember, binne IS intended as a list for conversation and I'm trying to get people from Northern New England to socialize, which is always an uphill battle at the best of times, so things which kill conversation should be avoided. Posts should invite informal, conversational response.
It has been suggested to me (not by someone on the list) that you might be more likely to interest people in helping if you posted about your personal experiences. She suggested you might talk about the times you've had fun in the course of helping people. (She's a teacher, and has to get people interested in the subject every day. And she's also a very good writer.)
My advice (take it for what it's worth, I'm not a teacher and I'm offering this free) is to focus on a really specific thing that happened that was fun - or heartwarming, if that's easier for you - and try to build up some detail about what lead up to that event and how it affected you. You'll find that something you thought was not significant often takes up quite a lot of space when you attempt to write down the context around it, but people seem to prefer reading a more detailed view to quick overviews - it captures their attention more, and more personally.