"You're Already Stuffing It Up"

4.7.2012

Saturday. I went to service placement.

Not a lot of people opened doors. Probably most were gone for Easter. But we did talk to one woman named Joy. Joy is a fantastic older woman. She was a ballet instructor for 40 years and was super precious. We talked a lot about generational differences and how these days you have to be open to change. But you also need to stay humble and remember to slow down and take in the small things. I hope that I can go back and see her.

After service I went to a Spanish café across the street with Tam and Monika. The waiters were very flirtatious and really funny. The best way to describe them is Spanish. One of them offered the other as an option on the dessert  menu.

After that we walked around and looked at cute shops that were all closed because of the holiday weekend. I ended up heading home around 3.  I got home, ate, napped then got ready for church.

I met Hong (my other Korean friend) at Strathfield Station so we could take the train to church together. He is great. While we were waiting, we saw Carly and Erica so Hong got to meet 2/3 of my roommates.

We went to central and waited for shuttle bus. We had just missed one, but that ended up being okay because then Julliane met up with us. We all took the shuttle bus together and then went to service together. They are the best. For real.

Afterward we waited out front to go to the event afterward. We saw Charlie and talked to him while we waited for transportation. The event was a barbie in a near by park. I got to talk to Allison a little, but not a lot. I mostly hung out with Charlie, Hong and Julliane. At the Barbie we had Sangers. This is my second experience with sangers (aka sausage in a piece of bread). It was weird. I picked up a piece of bread and put my tomato sauce (aka ketchup) on it  on the bread before I put my sausage on it. As I was doing it I was telling Charlie that this isn’t a thing in America and I wasn’t sure if I was doing it right. As I was squeezing the tomato sauce he tells me that I’m already ‘stuffing it up’. Apparently you’re supposed to put the sausage first and then the sauce. I guess I know for next time.

The park was super neat. Each picnic bench area had different colored led lights under it. It made for quite an interesting ambience.

I met a man from South Africa named Warren. And a girl names Serena from Korea. She was able to talk to Hong in their native language which I think was a relief for Hong. I feel bad sometimes because Hong and Julliane work really hard to talk to me and I think it wears them out. Linh then gave us a ride bad to central station where I took the train with Hong, Julliane and a brazillian boy named Lewis. He was very nice. He is only 17 and has only been here a week. I can’t imagine picking up and moving to a different country at the age of 17! His English was very good though so I think he will do well here.