CONSERVING OUR FUTURE: Meet Carrie
This month we are profiling one of our members, Carrie Ankerstein to give you more of an insight of what we do and who we are.
Carrie has been with us for five years since August 2003 and is very sadly leaving us in October to continue her career in Germany.
She will, as all volunteers can, come and join us when she is back in the UK to visit and with any luck will spread the word internationally!
Age: 30
Nationality: American. Carrie is from Wisconsin, USA and after completing her scholarship in Cambridge, came to Sheffield as a Post-Grad in the language department at the University of Sheffield.
How did you find out about us?
I just searched under Sheffield Conservation on the internet and there we were!
Why did you decide to join Sheffield Conservation Volunteers?
I was new in town and wanted to meet new friends. I also used to work on my parents yard back home and missed working outdoors, not to mention the prospect of getting out and about in the peak district and see parts of it I might not have seen before.
What are some of your fondest memories of SCV?
(Much laughter ensues and a great deal of reminiscing amongst the group...)
Winning the 'Golden Welly Award' for services rendered!! (SCV award the welly once a year to a member who has been a real asset to the group and Carrie was the winner in 2007) I love that welly and have a big gap on my mantelpiece now!
Our residentials in the Lake District! SCV travel to a spot in the Lake District twice a year where activities include dry stone walling, coppicing and habitat management. There are many stories of Carrie in the Lakes and the best remembered is cooking risotto for the group 'al-fresco' – see the photo!
My new wheelbarrow. Carrie discovered to her surprise that a wheelbarrow is a very comfortable seat when there are none others to be had! As testament to this, another of our long-standing members, Alan, made Carrie her very own chair in the shape of a wheelbarrow from wood gathered from our sites. We are not too sure how she will transport this to Germany but she loves that chair!
Easter 2007! Carrie requested an Easter Egg Hunt on one of our days in Clough Field Woods and was successfully duped into believing eggs were hidden in the woods for her to find. We played a small practical joke on her and she couldn't understand how everybody else found an egg (even the dog!) and not her…
Most of all I will miss the company, the work and the biscuits!
We wish her the very best in her new position at the University of Saarland in Germany and will miss her greatly.
If you are interested in winning the Golden Welly Award and sitting in wheelbarrows, then contact us on sheffieldconservationvolunteers@hotmail.co.uk
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