Who are we?

I thought I should say a little about the group. There are 29 Benedictine women from Australia, Canada, India and the US. We range in age from 38 to 73 years of age and come from quite a variety of community backgrounds, from contemplative with a focus on prayer, to communities with a strong ministerial bent. We have women who work as pastoral associates, in liturgy both in their communities and in dioceses, who teach primary school and college university level. We have one women who has just finished being a principal of an inner city girls high school in Chicago, which had an interesting ethnic mix. Most of the US sisters come from the mid-west and I have been surprised how many comment on working with immigrants, for example from the Sudan and other African countries. I hadn't really thought of migrants going so far inland in the States, as that is the exception to our experience. Some sisters come from communities that are very large by Australian standards with extensive buildings and their job back home would be looking grounds or buildings/plant. One sister run a home for pregnant single women. One of the Indian sisters is the superior of a community that has a hospital (200 bed), aged care facilities, a creche etc. The other Indian sister is administrator of a Nursing School that her community is establishing.
Quite a variety of work and backgound and yet 'work' is only mentioned in passing. What we really have in common is our Benedictine spirituality which amazes me in what a differnt expressions it takes in our cultures.