Big plans for the Weekend!!

I have big plans for the weekend!! They are very exciting. I am sleeping in on Saturday! AND NOT WORKING. It is the first day in three weeks that I am not working anywhere. I do a little dance when I think about it. Plus, my friend Melissa who lives in Banff is coming to visit her new nephew and we get to see her too! So that is good. Now I just have tomorrow to get through, but I only work at one job, the one that doesn't involve scanning food continuously for hours on end, so that is good. Zehrs is not a bad job. It is just really really dull.

Tonight I went to a "party" with WMBs college and career, called regeneration or regen, and we dressed up like pirates, ran around the neighbourhood and played card games. It was fun. Then on the way home Pam's little sister was having a conversation with someone on her cell phone and the other person didn't think it was possible to have a party without drinking. Ang was trying to set them straight. It was an interesting conversation.

Wish I could talk about something interesting I have read recently or something, but I haven't read a book in a week. And this is ME we're talking about. So that is something else planned for saturday. But first I must go to the library. What book should I get? Any suggestions? SOmething good.

What is this? Laura is posting more than everyone?! Is the world ending?!

This post is really just to show that I am posting more than everyone else. Almost all of you have commented on your blogs at some point that I don't post. Well now I do! Yahoo.

I got up early this morning to finish my job application (see previous post) and I was getting discouraged because the job seems so different from what I have done before and I wasn't sure that they would take my application all that seriously. I think I would do a really good job, but how do they know that? Anyway, so I was getting a little discouraged but I emailed all the people that I have listed as references so that when/if they get phone calls they are not surprised. Ray Vanderzaag emailed me back and I was really encouraged that he thinks I can do the job. That is exciting! Someone besides me thinks I would be a good fit. So that made me happy.

Something else that made me happy was a discussion I had with a guy at work. Jamie is a packer who was hired at the same time as me at Zehrs and is in his second year in Global Studies which is essentially IDS.(Matchmakers don't get any ideas. Second year, read 19 years old. TOO YOUNG)Anyway, when Jamie packs for my till we chat about his classes and our opinions on things. It makes work almost fun. On Sunday evening he asked what I had been up to during the weekend and when I mentioned that I had been at church he started asking about it because he stopped going when he was a kid and might be interested in going again. It was cool. I haven't been in the non church bubble for so long I sort of forgot what it is like!

So that is all. You all have some posting to do to catch up to me!! :)

Ndethetha Kancinci isiXhosa

How is it September 18th? How has time gone by so quickly?! It has been a year since I left for SA. This time last year I was settling into my house in the village and trying to figure out what the hell was going on! Everything was overwhelming, I had no idea what was happening, where I was supposed to be or what was expected of me. By the time I left I still had little idea of what was happening or what was expected of me, but at least I figured out where to go! It has only been a year but it feels like so much more, and I have only been home three months but it feels longer and shorter. I am still dealing with how to live here and how to express what it is I learned and how I have changed.

I just wrote hell on my blog. I acutally had to think whether I should or not. Silly. Last night I was at Andrea's for an Amazing Race party and Pam said she didn't think she had ever heard me swear. I told her she isn't around me enough. About half an hour after she left I was clearing up glasses from the smoothies we had and I dropped one on a chair and it spilled and I swore under my breath. Or at least I thought it was under my breath but everyone heard me.

Now I have to finish the scary MCC application form before I go to work. I don't need school to practice my refined art of procrastination!

enchantment missing from your life? It's only $500.00 at Zehrs!

Well, I am working two jobs which is very nice because now I have money. To spend on coffee. To keep me awake and alert because I am tired. Because I am working two jobs. This coming week will be less hectic because I am only working three days at Arvato, but the last two weeks I was there for four plus I am zehrs five days and these over lap so last week I worked 53 hours. That is alot. But it may be more soon because I am applying for a third job. It is a job with MCC at a women's shelter in Kitchener. It is scary because it is sort of like what I studied and so could be considered a "real" job. I am filling out the application for MCC and I get to answer questions about the role Christian Community has had in my life and what is my response to the biblical call for nonviolence and stuff like that. Yahoo for being back in the menno world. :)

So, my life has consisted of doing phone interviews and leaving messages for people then taking the bus and then scanning food and entering codes. Though uneventful for the most part, these activities have the occasional interesting moments. The other day I phoned someone that sent us their resume and their answering machine picked up. It identified who the number belonged to and asked for a message. Then it said "please wait for the beep" .....this was followed by nearly a minute of "its a small world" type electronic music. I was confused, then surprised and then I burst out laughing so when it finally beeped I couldn't leave a message and had to call back and listen to the whole thing again, trying not to laugh so I could leave the stupid message.

Same day, at zehrs I didn't know the code for the already made roasted chicken so I asked another cashier who was packing for me. She said it was 5609. So I entered that. What came up was a $500.00 something or other called "enchantment." So I had to void it and I had to get a manager to void it for me. For future reference the chicken is 5619.

So, the moral of the story is, if you need some enchantment I know where you can get it cheap!!