Social Work

For my social work class, I have to volunteer 10 hours community service. After calling back and forth witha  company I thought I would love to volunteer with (I still probably will this summer.) I started to get nervous that my due date was coming up soon. I decided to call my aunt, who works for the school where I went to middle school. She set me up with a social worker at a elementary school down the street. Today I went in and began my hours. And to my surprise I rather enjoyed it at the school. It is sad what some of the kids have to go through, but it is also rewarding when you look into their faces. Something the social worker said to me really stuck with me. She said, "Cyndi, most of them just need someone to talk to and someone who will truely listen." it is so true. One little girl's twin sister was killed when she was riding her bike. Another boy felt like the kids on the playground were mean to him. And another family (3 boys) just needed school supplies. Which the school was able to provide. It was really cool seeing the boys go through the cabinets to get the things they needed.

I really think this is what I am going to do with my life. Praise the Lord for clarity!

Another work story...

I have recently been encourage, or rather begged by my mom to keep a journal of the hilarious things that happen at work and possibly turn them into a book someday. So here is a few things that happened yesterday.

An elderly woman decided to try on pants right in the middle of our store. We don't have fitting rooms, mind you, but that is why we have an opened return policy for clothes. Seriously, she stripped down to her granny panties and was trying on pants right in the middle of our clothing isles. And when a fellow employee told her that she couldn't do that here, she glared, walked about 5 feet away and began trying on some more clothes.

Next we have a woman who was apparently scared that her merchandise was goig to get stolen. She took her basket full of already purchased items into the bathroom (everyone knows you cannot take merchandise into a restroom) and proceeded to peed with her door open so she could keep an eye on her basket. I only feel sorry for my friend who had to witness the whole thing and was too embarrassed to say anything.

And the last one for the day, an impatient man began yelling "SO AND SO MEET ME OUT FRONT!" He started this crusade up front by all our registers and went around the entire store. We could hear it all around, even when he was in the back. I can't even tell you how many managers and supervisors came running thinking that something was horribly wrong.

And to think, I was only at work for like 4 hours.

Texas

I just got back from Texas. My Aunt Sharon got married. It was amazing to see her get married after so many years. I know that Curtis is am amazing man of God. I just have to share how perfect the weedding was....

The wedding party consisted of their children and 2 best friends. Ricky and Schalee, my aunt's two oldest kids, are married and have 2 children a piece. So when they walked in, they walked in as a family unit rather than just the couple....AND then the big tear jerker. Ricky and Joshua, went back out and walked their mom up the isle and gave her away! What a perfect picture of how these men, that my cousins have turned into, care for their mother!

Sigh, I love weddings!! But the most shocking thing was when we had to get ont he plane to leave, I started to miss living in Texas. I know, I thought that would never happen.