Hello! This past weekend was nice and relaxing, up until Sunday evening but let me tell you bout the good stuff! Saturday we were able to go see Harry Potter!!! LOVED it! I think the fact that I haven't read the last book for a while played a part in me liking it so much because I wasn't comparing the two in depth like I did the last movie/book. I am definitely excited for July to see the last one though!!! Up next for movies is Narnia on December 10th and I can't WAIT to come home to be able to go see it!!!!! We bought tickets for a 3:45 show and it was 1:00 so we were able to go shopping at a nearby mall, they already had their Christmas tree up, Santa was taking pictures AND christmas music was playing. I was in heaven. Loved it, I just walked around singing along to the songs, not buying anything because 1) I don't really have the money to buy anything and 2) I probably wouldn't be able to get it back to Denver let alone back to Maine with all that I've already packed! On Sunday we went to a University of Arkansas Little Rock (UALR) Men's basketball game, that was fun but as most of you know, sports aren't really my thing, but I still enjoyed myself. Afterward we went to do laundry, and two people were supposed to go grocery shopping while we did so to save time...not so much, we were stuck at the laundromat 1 1/2 hours after we were done with laundry because of miscommunication and complications....not such a fun night, and because our timeline got all messed up we missed a moonwalk thing they had downtown where they have a bridge that goes over the dam (They call it the "Big Dam Bridge") so we didn't make it to that but attempted to meet up with another team here in Little Rock at a Sonic...let me tell you, there are way too many Sonic's around this area to have found the other team so that just added to our awful night, but we survived.
These last two days of work have been long and hard to get through because they drag out so long. A lot of the kids are preparing to go home for the holiday so they aren't really concentrating on playing games with me. But today a couple of things happened that made me happy and realize how much good I am doing for these children. There is this one 5 year old girl who I had seen a couple times last week and brought a bunch of stickers for her to choose from and put on her very own piece of paper. I heard she had come back into the hospital and was looking for some stickers, so I went into her room and her face lit up and she looks at me and goes "Can I have some stickers!?" So I was able to just hang out with her for a while and go through stickers so she could pick and choose what she wanted. It was awesome. Then the other thing that happened was there was this girl I was playing UNO with. I have to move her cards for her, but she's able to tell me what cards to put down for her. Anytime she would put down a "skip" "reverse" "+2" or "+4" she would scream "HAHA!" and I loved it, but then one of her doctors came in and witnessed it and told her that this is the happiest he had seen her. AH-MAZING I felt so good about myself that just by playing a game of UNO with this girl made her light up and be happy. So this job is definitely awesome, but still emotionally draining at times, but I haven't let it get to me yet.
I already mentioned how we are meeting up with 2 others teams for Thanksgiving, but it's going to be a vey hard day for me being away from home. I've never been away for any big holidays like this but I'll get through it. AND I'll be home in 25 days!!!! Sorry if I've rambled on, but this is what I've been doing! Hope everyone is well, and it has been pointed out that it's a pain to leave comments here, so if you want to comment or have questions feel free to facebook me or email me acav_614@yahoo.com. I have internet access to my email, but nothing like facebook/skype/blog because it's from the hospital computers so feel free to email me at anytime and I check it almost daily and can respond!! Love to all!
No comments:
Post a Comment