No Work Today!!

     Woke up Friday morning, got dressed, and arrived at work (a.k.a. the shower house) about 8 am. We sat there for several minutes, and no one showed up. Then Maria, Karla, and Sarah came and began working. We asked what we could do, and soon I found myself cleaning sinks and mirrors. Easy stuff. 

     When we are finished with that, Hannah receives a text. “I’m so sorry. Change of plans, meet in the GE lobby at 2!” Hannah and I just look at each other. We leave and go back to the huts, and Hannah goes to sleep, but I lay there roughly about an hour and a half….finally going to sleep. 

     I was awakened by Hannah shouting out my name several times trying to wake me up. She told me we should go eat. So I hurried up and got ready, and we walked to the caf. I always anticipate what we are going to have…I try to guess. So as we approach the counter, to our dismay, it was Chick-fil-a. 

     Nothing is necessarily wrong with Chick-fil-a, but neither Hannah nor I were quite ready to eat it again. (We work at Chick-fil-a and eat it every day for those of you who don’t know) I ate my sandwich, which didn't taste nearly as good as the ones in the restaurant… We wait around in the caf and at 2pm, we go to the GE lobby. 

     There is a man in there waiting on us. He and I were roughly around the same age. His name is Britt and he shows us our schedule, tells us what to do and where to meet. This “meeting” lasted no more than 5 minutes. Turned out we were off that day, which was now our third day in a row to be off. 

     We basically just hung out around the caf for the next several, several hours. I think I was sitting in that booth for right around 5 hours or so…let me just say my back was hurting. My whole body was sooo achy…somehow we ended up by the coffee shop, where we stood around talking. 

     And then I started to get hungry, so I used a bike and rode back to the hut, grabbed some food, and grabbed my supply of bracelet making supplies. Upon my return to the caf, I gave Karen some food I had gotten for her, and then proceeded to go to the five girls. Jenni, Michelle, Sarah, Maria, and Karla. 

     I asked them if they would like to learn how to make bracelets, to which they replied yes. It was a fun process, teaching them. Thankfully, they all caught on very quickly, and by then end of the night, we all got along and they could make bracelets. As we were getting up to start getting ready for bed, a few things happened which I will not go into detail on here. 

     In a nutshell, someone started crying, and we ended up going to the prayer room for awhile. Even though I had to be up by 7:30am, the fact that I didn't go to bed until 2:30am didn't bother me. I was able to minister and be ministered to, and that was such a blessing. I wouldn't have traded that night for the world.