Tonight we took one of the youth groups at Park Road Ice Skating. Peterborough is lucky enough to have an Ice Rink within the city so it’s an ideal place to go that in the past we simply haven’t! (In my three years here I’ve been twice before…not one with a youth group). I originally thought that from a youth work perspective it would just be a social, people skating all over the place, myself sitting looking after the young people’s things and reading a book…however it turned out to be the opposite.

The young people I was with (a brilliant bunch who I love working* with) were all of various abilities, some having been skating, some having never skated in their life, and they all worked together, helping each other up, holding arms and hands to teach others…one particular young person ended up teaching myself and John (other leader)…yes…I ended up on the ice and didn’t fall over.

Overall I really enjoyed this evening, it was great for people bonding and developing relationships and at the same time so much fun…I do ache though!

*Working is such a horrible word to use but I couldn’t think of an alternative that summed up what I meant.