Well, I made it to Miami, FL yesterday at 3pm local time (what? all the international interns do it, why can't I?). The Sawyers have already been extremely generous and kind to me, making the adjustment a bit easier. They have 2 sons who are living at their house for the summer, and one more coming home next week. Last night Rick and I went to an evening service at a local church and found Paul and Heather Mannuel there. Paul use to be the assistant pastor at my home church when I was in middle school, and now he's the pastor of this PCA church in Miami. It was great seeing familiar faces in a COMPLETELY unfamiliar context.
Today, I'm at the FCFC offices doing "orientation" and filling out every piece of paperwork known to mankind so that I can go to any event FCFC runs. I've spent the past hour on www.mentoring.org to get a better idea of what's out there and the best practices and such. I did the required mentoring training for Amachi Mentoring and was excited to see the SMAART principle I learned from 310, SWOT analysis from principles of management, and almost the entire context of my interpersonal communications class present in the training material.
Tonight, I'm going to a Marlins game (yeah, baseball, nothing I know anything about), but not to watch the game. A couple of staff members from FCFC's Children of Inmates program will be there to pass out fliers about their work and how people can volunteer. No, I won't be passing out fliers, I'll be observing in order to get material for one of my required papers.
YOU'RE SMART. I only half-understood 50% of this post. (Okay, slight exaggeration.) SMAART principle? SWOT analysis? Dang, gurrrrrl.
ReplyDeleteAnyhoo, this was lovely. I can just picture you all over the place doing your work and smiling at people and being lovely Becky. And, hey, I know nice people in Miami so don't even worry about it. ;-)