Here's JaneHellen!
She spent time at SRF in the early days and was employed as an au pair and took several classes from the place. Of course since she was employed as an SRF au pair, she wasn't paid what she was owed from all the pairs who hired her. You can guess who those pairs may be. Despite not paying her, the pairs demanded she pay for classes anyway. So, like many of us, she escaped with few assets and a determination to start again.
She's got her own blog and I hope you all read it. Jane speaks from her experience at SRF and has her own unique insight into that sloppy mess called SRF.
Give her blog a good read and leave a shout-out from the USA and all of us SRF survivors.
http://janehellen-janehellen.blogspot.com
JaneHellen is a brave soul who is telling her side of the SRF story. It's not exactly a pretty one but that's what the dark side of the SRF moon looks like.
Here's one tale from the dark side:
Living in a SRF family you might have asset to a tv, but no newspapers and mabye no phone, we didnt. It took me many years to start keeping track of the date and what was going on in the world. I dont know why but I think so many things disapered and it was difficult to repair it all at once. SRF teaching is sort of loosing once intelligence instead of developing. You loose it all. Simple things takes long time to be able to do again. For me also it took long time to be able to read books again. I dont know what happend I used to read a lot of books before i got involed with SRF. To go out in society again was scary and choking. This is also a thing that cults and sekts do, they isolate people, its a form of abuse and control.
Bravo! I agree completely. You probably do as well.
I haven't met her (just as I haven't met many of those who read this blog). But her stories are strangely familiar. Got take a read of her blog. I think you'll find it to be helpful and healing.
Here's my video tribute to my new friend. It's the biggest part the the new musical Wicked - where Elphaba decided he Wizard isn't all he's cracked up to be and she will be going her own way, and would be much better for it.
I thought Defying Gravity would be the best thing I can post for her as this song reflects her own quest to defy the force of SRF gravity holding her down.
