The Faiths Act Fellows met for our first day of training this morning. We’ve spent the last three months getting to know each others’ bios and pictures, discussing the Fellowship over conference calls, and in some cases, chit-chatting through Facebook. It was the first time that all thirty of us were in the same room. And something amazing happened – it was like we had all known each other for ages.
Sure, we still had to ask names and schools and occupations and permanent site placements, but there was an underlying layer of understanding and friendship waiting for us. This is to say nothing that we’re all very outgoing and intelligent people who like making friends, of course. <Insert interesting smiley-face character here>
We had some people come in from the Tony Blair Faith Foundation to talk about about the nature of the Fellowship and what it was we were working towards. Staffers from the Interfaith Youth Core took over training for the rest of the day, which involved a few hours of workshops and a visit to London’s Central Mosque, where we attended Friday prayers with around 11,000 congregants. That’s a lot of people.
At the end of the day, we teamed up for an amazing dinner and laughed and made plans for the next ten months (even though many of our plans will be written during the next six weeks of training!) and headed back to our residence hall for the evening.
I’m probably too excited to sleep. This is going to be an amazing Fellowship.
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