So we've got a group here now from Youth for Christ. It's actually the first group that we've had to do totally on our own, which has been a bit nerve-racking. The guy that's running it is actually the director for Europe and Africa and his name is John Duncan. Now when John Duncan first came here, I'm pretty sure he thought I was an idiot and here's why:
After a string of simple mishaps such as forgetting to turn the heat on to his dorm, forgetting to give them anything to drink with their dinner, and putting two salts on one table and two peppers on another, they came and asked if I could turn up the heat in the meeting room. So I did that and as it was a little after noon I thought I would go up to see if it came on ok. It didn't even occur to me that the meeting might still be going on, so I just barge noisily right into their teaching session, mumble something inane like "Oh, sorry, I thought you were at lunch..." and back out the door from whence I came. In my frenzied embarassment, I also bolted the door from the outside out of habit. So as it turned out, I had locked them in the meeting room and they had to use the fire exit to get out. I didn't find any of this out until I was serving them their vegetable soup at lunch. Boy did I feel stupid.
So there's your funny story for the week. It still makes us belly laugh to talk about it. And John Duncan seems to think I'm ok now, which is nice. May you have joy today.
Mark
2 comments:
This is just too funny! My love to you both! Paula S
So, you turn up the heat, lock the door, and everyone has to leave out the fire escape...?
What are you trying to do there, exatcly?
~Lezlie
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