Winter is still here in Toowoomba, and while we are not experiencing the biting cold that friends and family are further south, I was certainly glad to be able to restart the home fire this morning from last night’s residual coals.
It has been lovely to get the Club’s classes up and running over the past few weeks, and settling into the new space at the Clive Berghofer Recreation Centre. I have been very pleased to see old faces return to the dojo and a number of new faces start up across most of the classes we offer. It has also been lovely to have the luxury of time to be able to update some of the Club’s systems, including the website, and promotional materials. For me, this is about to end, as in two week I will be commencing back to back 5-week long clinical placements, that will see me exit out the other side in December, just before the still planned QKR summer seminar. My first placement is in Toowoomba, though in a different area to the one I had keen initially told, so I will have to do a little more condensed preparation than I had been hoping for. This means that the next couple of weeks will be the last I can do for a little while in terms of intensive Club work, dropping back to the teaching commitments I can sustain for the duration.
Fortunately, I think that we can certainly have all the important things up and running by this time, and I am ably assisted by the whole Executive and Instructor/Coordinator team here at the Club to keep the ball rolling forward to the end of the year.
Things that you as general members and friends can do to help include:
making sure that you continue to turn up on time, keep your gear in a tidy and presentable fashion while in the dojo, and leave at the end of the session efficiently. Not only is this part of our COVID planning, but helps to get me home before 10 pm of a week night.
Make sure all your training dues and membership fees are kept up to date. This allows us to continue providing the services that we do. If there are questions or issues, please talk with your relevant instructor/discipline coordinator.
Take and active part of the conversations we have in our group chats and social media. Not only does this help to promote the Club to others, but it lets the Executive/Instructor team know what we can do to help make your experience more conducive to training
Before I disappear into particulars of clinical placement, I will be working with the Exec team to launch a few promotional activities both to the University and wider community. Can I as that when you see things come through for the Club, please like and share them, as this gets our message out there and brings people into the dojo. We will also be working towards finalising the set up of the physical space and AV links to that everything is set to operate efficiently over the next few months.
As always, I’ll look forward to interacting with all of you this week. Stay warm, have fun!