I forgot to add this to my last post.
1. I'm extremely quiet when I'm nervous. I've been one-word answering as many questions as possible and I think the most I've talked about has been explaining my paper requirements for the internship.
2. I will have NO temptation whatsoever to go home to visit. Driving through the Everglades is like driving through a jungle (which is full of animals that have more road rights than you and they like crossing the street as slowly as humanly possible.).
3. Nerves + emotional exhaustion + living in a house that eats at 8am, 3pm, and 8:30pm = weird eating habits. I'm not hungry, but I know I should eat. I'll have to purchase some protein bars or something to carry with me.
4. 177th Ave = where I'll be purchasing my fruits and veggies once I move to the door house. it's FULL of local farmers selling their stuff!
5. I've got to get used to having a drum set in my room. Last night, I accidentally hit one of the cymbals with the end of my phone charger and it was a domino effect of sounds.
6. the weather: scalding hot outside. freezing cold inside. torrential down pour of rain in the afternoons. FL summers are NOT enjoyable.
7. Everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) in the FCFC offices speaks Spanish fluently. Spanglish has been thrown between cubicles all morning. The most Spanish I spoke today was "Asi, Asi" and it was when a Hispanic staff member asked me how well I spoke Spanish.
SPECIFIC PRAYER REQUESTS:
- that I'd calm down about this. I really am not enjoying the ambiguity of my responsibilities and what I'm kind of time line I'm on. I also don't think my host completely understands the side observations and interviews I have to conduct for my papers and logs.
- That I'd adjust to my surroundings. I know I'm not experiencing any time difference, major cultural differences, or anything like that, but Miami is still a completely different place than Chattanooga and Cape Coral. The people I'm living and working with are different from Covenant students and staff. I didn't think about this before hand, but now it's something I've got to get through.
- Relationships. That I'd be able to establish good relationships with all the members of my host family and the people in the FCFC offices.
- Yeah, didn't think Spanish was a necessity, oh so COMPLETELY wrong! Pray that I can dedicate my evenings to learning it and will pick up on it quickly.
It's really overwhelming coming into a new place. I understand...but Gods got you none the less, that is our one comfort! Rock Miami boss on Becky, Boss on
ReplyDeleteSomething I tell myself in every new place: TRANSITIONS SUCK. No matter how wonderful a place it is, no matter how fantastic it all turns out to be later, I usually spend the first week wanting to cry every other second. I can only imagine you in a place where you're feeling so on your own -- the transition will be hard but you've got the goods to get through it!! (You trust in God like mad. I know because I've seen it.)
ReplyDeleteThese prayer points are on my list and in my heart. I love you, Becks. Your old friends are behind you and your new friends in Miami are waiting to be discovered, invested in, loved.
praying for you my dear!! :) i understand the overwhelmingness and the struggling with ambiguity thing. annd the whole listening to people rattle on in a language you don't understand. perhaps your spanish is better than my tagalog :) sometimes i know things but all i do is say them in my head and then kick myself because i didn't take advantage of my opportunity to practice. but yes. pobrecita. desea que Dios les da la paz. (wow okay i hope i said that right...maany opportunities for grammar errors in that sentence. shoulda just stuck with "te amo")
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