61 posts. Still going.
June 11, 2008
I’m staying with my friend Wayne. Just in case you were wondering. I expected to be sleeping on the floor in his house being uncomfortable. I was dead wrong. I have in fact been blessed with a room and a bed. Blessings from the Lord I say. I hope you agree.
A further blessing from the Lord comes in the form of the view from Wayne’s house. I get to see the sun on the Puuge every day. As I hope you know, large bodies of water are some of my favorite things ever. So in summary, I sleep well and moreover the house in which I sleep has a sick view and some awesome people.
I think I mentioned that I’m taking a class in West Seattle. It’s a medical interpreter’s class. If I haven’t said anything before about it I would say to you that if you want to be an interpreter, you should take this class. I think I would have been destroyed if I hadn’t taken this class. I would have been caught in some random situation that I wouldn’t have known what to do and then I would have got fired. Well, no longer. I am learning real things of a valuable and applicable nature. Not only theory, but also application. MMMM. That’s well worth the money.
Another cool thing about class is that I get to hang out in a room filled with people who speak spanish. I like hanging out with other hispanic people. We’re pretty fun. I get to chat with them and they laugh at my jokes and the overall atmosphere in the class is great. It’s actually very fun to be in class. We do activities and they are all very flexible with my lack of vocabulary mastery. It’s a good thing.
More to follow. One thing I’m thinking about is how do I articulate my beliefs to people outside a christian context. I told one girl in my class that I was thinking about going to seminary. She didn’t know what that was. Never had that happen before. I think that I somewhat failed to explain it accurately. Nonetheless, she seemed supportive. We also talked about our past relationships. It occured to me that forgiveness may not be something everyone else thinks is worthwhile. I suppose we’ll just have to live it so they can see it. Maybe they’ll catch on.
