Sorry it’s been a while y’all. Things are cra-zy down here in the Chuck-town. We are now entering our third week of project, which is super hard to believe. Though the messiness of our room proves otherwise, it does not seem like we’ve already gone through 1/4th of our time here. Last week brought all sorts of new challenges. We’ve officially started at McDonald’s and it is officially kicking our tails. For those of you who have never had the opportunity to work at a fast food restaurant, I can guarantee you that the work is a lot harder than what you would necessarily expect. In my first week at the ol’ Mickey D’s I was trained on the grill, line, drive through, and front counter. If you were to come in and order something (hopefully not something too complicated) then I would most likely be able to take your order, make your food, and deliver your bag to you out the drive through window. Right now, Morgan and I are working the 8 to 4 shift, which has been both exhausting and exhilarating at different times. **Funny stories from McDonald’s: Our first experiences in making dipped cones. You wouldn’t think it would be that hard. FALSE. It is so hard. Morgan and I both had several duds before we convinced our manager to show us how to do it at the end of one of our shifts, and then convinced him to let us take home our practice cones. They were both delicious and terribly messy (make sure you hold onto that upholstery cleaner that I bought at the beginning of the summer, Mom! I will be needing it again.) As far as “on the project” goes, things are really really great. I am beginning to really love my roommates in a deeper way than what I had originally expected. Each day I am blown away to see them demonstrate the gospel to me, and to see them show me so much grace by putting up with all my junk (both emotionally, and the huge pile of things I have going in my corner of the room). It has been so cool to see how God handpicked each of us to be in this room together, to see how our stories intertwine, and to see the ways in which we are able to encourage each other because of that. I also am genuinely beginning to know and love the other people on project. This is an answered prayer, because coming into this summer I was really worried about the size of the community, and the pressure I felt to get to know and love everyone within the first week here. God has been gracious to allow me to recognize that one of the beautiful things about project is that I have time. I don’t have to have major FOMO (fear of missing out) because I have time to get to know all of my fellow projecteers throughout our nine weeks here. As our community event this week, we had game night, which was thrilling, terrifying, and hilarious all at the same time. One of the things that we’ve been talking about over the past few weeks is placing a red dot on “where we’re at” coming into project. Like the mall maps that show you in bright red exactly where you are, our director has been challenging us to figure out where our spiritual red dot is at this point in time. I am not generally super in touch with my emotions or thoughts, so this process has been really hard for me. I want to be able to know what’s going on, but this is an area where I am going to have to just rest and let God reveal himself in time. Prayer requests for this upcoming week:
That’s all for now. I promise to try to be better about posting here on a more every-other-daily basis. I am sure that as our work week continues I will have more embarrassing and funny stories to share from the world of Mickey D’s. That’s all for now, folks. Enjoy these pictures for further explanation of my life as a temporary Charlestonian.
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Hannah Croom
6/11/2013 07:24:42 am
Love hearing about how Charleston is going! Please continue to update the blog because I will definitely be reading:) Love and miss you!
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