Friday, August 29, 2008

A New Experience

I moved to Boston! It's quite exciting and a little overwhelming. I'm just finishing my first week of work and what week it has been. On monday I got here half an hour early, and then went to the affordable housing units with my supervisor. Then she took us (Kathleen and I, Kathleen is another JV working with the Children's program at Sojourner House) out to lunch. Then Kathleen and I ran errands with Ruby (Kathleen's supervisor), what a hoot. Ruby is the most energetic person I've ever met. We had to go to her eye doctor to pick up her new glasses and she argued with the doctor about the perscription being too strong. It actually wasn't because it takes some time for your eyes to adjust to the new glasses.
Tuesday Stasia (my supervisor) had me scan some documents for her and help her clean up her office. Wednesday Stasia wasn't here, so I helped Kathleen with the Children's program. Thursday we went sailing with the kids around the Boston Harbour. How exciting! I got some beautiful pictures of the Boston skyline. Today I've been helping Stasia, and we went to the units again. We had to meet with the gas guy because the gas had gotten turned off.
I know I'm in for an exciting and stressful year. My housemates are great, but we are all so different from each other. It's interesting to get to know them and try to understand their life stories.



Boston is beautiful, but so confusing. The units are 10 minutes from my office, but the streets twist and turn and are one-way in some areas. You can tell that it's pretty old. We got to walk part of the freedom trail, which was so interesting. I love reading and learning about history, but I can't really take a history class. I like that I can look up the information or ask questions, but I don't have to remember it all for a test. So glad I'm not in school anymore, but we'll see once this year is over. Maybe grad school is around the corner.

The book this time is:
The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle)
I'm reading it slowly, but finding it to be one of the most interesting books I've ever read)

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