Thursday, 11 September 2008
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Coco
By Colbie Caillat
Tailor Made
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I have had several dreams in the past week about New Orleans, I'm missing it a lot. My mom doesn't understand because all she can think about is how dangerous it was down there for me and having my car stolen. It's hard to understand since we've lived in a place that is mostly safe all our lives. I can't get used to the fact that it's optional for me to lock my car doors now. I suddenly know what people meant when they said there was something about New Orleans that made a person love it and want to come back. I miss riding on the street car, having coffee at Community Coffee, and browsing Magazine Street. I miss the beautiful buildings , the culture, and Audubon Park. But above all I miss the people that I grew to love and who were my family for a year. Today I came to the realization that I will never be able to get people who didn't experience my time there to understand everything I went through while in New Orleans. And I want to because it was so important to me. Yet if I tried to tell everything people wouldn't want to listen to it all because they weren't there, something you truly had to be there for. How do I pick out the most important moments and lessons learned to share with people?
I had my first job interview since being back. It's for a job doing day programming with people with disabilities. Which means I would be responsible for coming up with lesiure activities to do with the residents, such as crafts, cards, reading, community activities, and volunteer projects. It seems promising. I actually enjoyed the interview (I had three different interview for it!) because I enjoyed just talking to the ladies doing the interviewing. Plus I've been couped up by myself lately and I think I just enjoyed having some social interactions. It also made me think about what I really want to do. I was convinced I wanted to find an office job. But going to this interview made me realize how much I want to do a job where I'm helping people by working directly with people. A job needs to be more for me than just a way to make money, I will only be satisfied if my job is a way for me to do ministry helping people. That's why I wanted to go into inner-city ministry because then my job would be a way for me to live out my faith. That's what I'm called to and anything less would be wasting what God has showed me for so long. I'll let you know what happens.
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