Day 3

Well,
There's not much to say. The last two days have been very slow. It's actually been very good since I'm all plugged up with snot. (Sorry). Yesterday morning JoVeta put me to work on paper cutting (never a good thing to give a perfectionist). I figured out to cut a normal piece of paper in half you need to line it up at 5 and 1/2 exactly... and then to cut that in half.... oh well you get the point. We went out to eat at a nice Italian restaraunt. I always complain to my mother that I need a boyfriend to take me to restaraunts (since my family eats out about twice a year)... but it turns out all I needed to do was get an internship! I've been out three times already in my three days. I'm not sure I can take much more. The most interesting part has been not being able to taste the food. It's a shame to eat Mongolian BBQ when you can't taste. It's quite frustrating... because I can smell everything up until the point I sit down. And honestly... you can't eat standing up in a nice restaraunt. Although that night, I made the mistake of getting hot and sour soup... which just about drained my sinuses as well as my ability to think straight. Sadly it did nothing for my taste buds.

Anway, :) today... I've caught up on my emails, filed away all my Thursday emails (someday I'll make them into a book), organized all my photos, and written four thank you cards for grad gifts. Weird, I'm graduated. Anyway, yesterday we visited the associate pastor Amy... since she just gave birth to Mercy. I'm rather fond of that name. All of the pastoral care team is made up of women. I'm glad none of the boys were sent here :)

I am almost bored... but not to the point of opening my nursing books. It will still take me quite awhile to get to the motivation of wanting to learn again. Ugh the facts stuck in my head at this point are probably clogging my sinuses worse than the snot. Maybe in fact that's what's making me so ill. :) Boy, when I get control of the keyboard I'm quite mischivious. Bother I could never spell that word. Well I should probably find something else to do. JoVeta promises that she will put me to work at some point... it's just she has so much to organize to get this trip ready, that she has no time to boss me around. She just had hard wood floors put in... so the entire house was packed up in boxes. Now it's mostly back together - but there's still a fair amount of boxes left. I'm excited to get at those. I like heavy lifting - maybe that's why I decided to become a nurse...

JoVeta is the knickknack queen! My poor mother would probably faint at the sight of her house. But I find it quite cozy. She collects crosses... so I now have a new hunch on what to get her as a thank you. It will be quite the adventure to discover what cross she doesn't have! She enjoyed the "Michigan" treat we got her - an oven mitt with all the cities of MI... even poky old Saline, cherry and apple butter... mmm, and Jiffy corn muffins... because Jiffy is in Chelsea. Ok I better really stop chattering now.

This is what happens when I start to get a bit lonely. NOT that I'm lonely. It's so nice not to have someone popping in on me every 2 seconds. I won't be ready to immerse myself back into the college chaos until August. :)

Much love,
Katie