Peer Listeners

In each house there are two second years, one guy and one girl, with the title 'peer listener'.
They are supposed to be two people from the house to whom you can talk about any problems you might be having or to get advice from about a sticky situation. They are supposed to provide guidance, support and a friendly person to talk to.
In the first term they meet with the first years about once a week to talk about different issues such as: how to deal with stress and homesickness, EDW (excessive displays of wealth) or smoking and just to see how we are all doing.
I had two great peer listeners, Gala (Germany) and Dylan (USA).

This past Sunday the new peer listeners in each house were chosen. They are chosen now so that there is time for them to go through about of training on how to talk to people and to learn about the rules they must adhere to in terms of confidentiality etc.
In every house people signed down or spoke to their peer listeners to express their wish to run, and last week the present peer listeners and the houseparents held interviews.

In my house seven girls and four boys ran.
And two of them were chosen:
Maris (Spain) and Donald (Sierra Leone)

Congrats!