Working it Out

I've been keeping busy with work lately. Yesterday, we took the students on a field trip to the Pitot House and then to Rock 'n Bowl. The Pitot House is a plantation on Bayou St. John near the French Quarter. It's near Esplanade and the New Orleans Museum of Art in my favorite part of New Orleans. The house itself was interesting, but when the students got off the bus, they started taking pictures of themselves in front of the bus rather than in front of the house. When I asked what they were doing, they told me that it had been a dream of theirs to ride a yellow school bus. They always saw them on American movies, they had always wanted to ride on one. They were going to send pictures back to their friends in front of the yellow school bus.These are some of the students from Vietnam, Thailand, Russia, France, and Brazil.


After the Pitot House, we went to the bowling alley. Letting 50 international students loose in a bowling alley is kind of a bad idea. For one thing, most of them had never bowled before. We get into the bowling alley, and the next thing I know, they're all grabbing bowling balls and rolling them down the lanes granny style. Now that wouldn't have been so bad, except they didn't understand the concept of taking turns. You had four students on one lane rolling one ball after another. I kept having to stop them and inform them that the gate was down, and you have to wait for the gate to come back up before you can knock the pins down. They were even bowling when there were no pins in the lane. They would roll the ball down there, it would bounce off the gate and then roll back to the front. It was slightly chaotic.

Today was therapeutic for me. I got to baby-sit for a little 14 month old boy. It was so refreshing to be around a baby again. He was such a little character, and he would make me laugh and then he would laugh. It was so good to laugh. He likes to cuddle, too, so that was fun.

I think I'm making a little progress in my recovery. I don't think the medicine has kicked in yet, but I'm hoping it will start soon. I've been learning a lot in couseling, and things are getting a little bit easier to deal with. I pray that the healing will continue and get better. Thank you for your prayers.