A Little Disappointment

Okay, so today was not nearly as intense or helpful as I was thinking it might be. First of all, the woman we spent the day with was not actually on-call. This meant we weren't able to see the pagers and stuff when a call came through. Though the on-call chaplain did call us to one death, we weren't able to actually see anything. In other words, I am no more prepared for my on-call shift than I was before these five hours of shadowing.

We spent the time doing a scavenger hunt. This was actually somewhat amusing and would have been impossible to do without help. For example, one instruction read "Where does the door. Elevator E (2nd floor) immediately to the left of Bin 9 lead you?" What was really meant by this? "On the 2nd floor, go left from elevator E and look directly to the right of mailbox 9."

One other amusing incident occurred during our little scavenger hunt. We were walking behind a nurse and older man who were behind to Muslim women.

"They speak terrible Spanish" the man confided to the nurse.

"That's because they're speaking Arabic" she replied. Jess and I got pretty tickled at this and couldn't stop laughing.

So anyway, the day was not all that I hoped for it to be. I suppose not every day will be, though.

Oh yeah, I did get to enjoy second breakfast this morning. The chaplains at Anderson were having their employee appreciation breakfast. Though I had already eaten breakfast, who am I to pass up free, yummy food. Plus, I've always wanted to eat "second breakfast."