Plantains

This week has been pretty great! I still feel like I'm settling in here but with the warmth (for a few days) and with more exploring, I feel comfortable here. Sunday we went to the Art Museum where on the first Sunday of the month it is "pay what you wish". Basically, you feel really bad for only paying a couple bucks, but they have a lot of people come in so it'll even out in the end, right? Monday I skipped my class on accident because the schedule was changed from normally being Tuesdays to Monday night. Whoops. I felt like such an idiot and there was nothing I could do about it, besides say sorry which obviously didn't cut it. Besides learning that I got my foot fit for a splint at work by a grad PT who was learning to do it. It was so cool! They used this waxy material that when heated would mold right to my foot and then they would cut off the extras to allow movement. The best part--I got to keep it. As my sister says, I'm sure I'll put it to good use someday.

Later on that night I went to the cell/ Bible study meeting. It was so nice to be in a calm environment that felt like home for once. I miss being surrounded by the comfort of that. Anyways, I found out that Welcome Wagon is going to be having a concert at my church on Feb. 23rd! For those of you who don't know, they are this great music group and the lead singer, Vito, is good friends with Josh Banner, the worship director at Hope. The best part is that when he came to Hope I got to sing with him and a bunch of other random Hope students. It was really amazing, so I'm super excited that first of all, people know him here, and second of all, it'll be nice to see a familiar face. What a coincidence, or more of a sign of God working. Of all the churches I could have joined, clearly this was the right one.

Up and Coming: internship, workshop tomorrow night to create our learning plans for our internships, pizza provided by TPC, Friday I get to head the RND patients in their morning pool workout because everyone will be at a conference, then back to TPC for class in the morning and then to Project HOME to better understand the homeless population. Lastly, some Hope people are coming out this weekend that are friends with my housemates so we'll be showing them around!!

Side story: "Plantains" is the title because today I bought what looked like ripe bananas (great for banana bread), but they were plantains. Good lesson, yummy fried plantains.

Shalom