Dish duty

As of halfway through the semester, I'm on dish duty.  I am taking the place of one young woman, Lydia, because she had to go home.  Her Mom is dying of cancer, and is expected to die within days now.  While this is a very sad situation, the family has tremendous strength in their faith and trust in God to help them through this difficult time.  Lydia asked that we pray for her mother's death because they have such comfort in knowing where she is going and it's difficult to see their mother this way.

Because of this unfortuneate situation, I stepped in gladly.  It's actually been quite a blessing.  My job is to dry the dishes.  Sometimes Nat, the RA, washes the dishes, but the five of us students are responsible for ensuring that all the breakfast dishes are dried and put away.  Morning is a great time to have a duty and I enjoy chatting with the other students.  The other day we talked about our favorite music.  Age is one gap, but then there are the different countries that we're from.  I wrote down a few of the artists and plan to check them out.  Besides our duty, everyone contributes to the cleanliness of the school.  And it's really clean.  It's cleaned every day.  Cleaner than many hotels that I've stayed in.  I knew that they took good care when I was assigned to clean the showers this week with a small scrub brush.  A little Josh Groben on my ipod, scrub brush and gloves and I was good to go.  We were even asked to wipe the metal down on the showers and shine it.  I really didn't mind the chores because the school is so well run and I've benefited so much. 

Dish Duty

Benji (New Zealand), Ana (Staff/Australia), Trish (Canada), Hannah (USA), Sharon/me (USA)