Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Urban cohousing at Boulder

[Kevin Wolf (kjwolf]

On Wed, 7 Jun 1995, David L. Mandel wrote:
> One of our members says she doesn't really want to go (tonight she gave the 
> tour
> and 2-hour talk to the umphundreth visitor, and while these visitors are 
> mostly
> nice and cool people, one gets burned out)... but, as I was saying, this 
> member
> 
> David Mandel, Southside Park, Sacramento

Hi David and the rest of Co-housing-L.

Do people regularly give two hour tours and talks about their community?  
Yikes, if this is the standard, I'd change it.  Burnout is right.  I give 
about two tours a month. They average 20 min.  For students or serious 
people, they can come to dinner and talk with the inhabitants then for 
two hours, but it won't likely be me being their host the whole time.  
I'll hand it off.

Yes I could talk about our community for hours.  But I don't want to 
spend my time doing this, and after a while, what do they retain 
anyways?  And I don't want to burn out on giving the tour.  Anyone else 
have solutions to the tour problem?  I border on feeling guilty for not 
giving a longer more detailed introduction, yet so far, my desire to 
conserve my time outweighs it.

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Kevin Wolf
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