stay black

...that's my favorite line from snakes on a plane.

well now it is the 5th of november, do you remember :)

i'm sorry friends that i have yet to post for so many months! i'm not too good at the blog thing. i tend to either write nothing or write my whole life story with embellished details. then when the ending seems anti-climatic, as a wise friend taught me, i end it with "then i fell down the stairs and found $20". its good to read through october and hear bits and pieces though of your lives. i will try to be better at it.

so i'm still at the same job that i started 2 days after graduation. oh vacation where are you!? but its been overall a really good learning experience. i'm working in a social worker type role with low-income families of preschoolers enrolled in the headstart program in oakland. what am i learning that i should have already known before? (1) i have soooo much more to learn about people, myself, organizations, etc. etc. (2) people can be poor/have a lack of resources for a lot of different reasons and life ain't fair. (3) i see people with very little who are very content with it and less obessessed with economic advancement than a lot of people with a lot more. (4) kids are adorable. and they soak everyyything up and spit it back in their own way. (5) 4 year olds act surprisingly like big people. (6) big people act surpisingly like 4 years olds.

...well none of that is any great revelation, but i guess its different to experience it first hand than just hearing it from others.

future wise i'm tryin to figure out next year, and when to apply for law school. my hope i think is to go abroad again for perhaps a year, then law school. but we'll see. i need to start makin some decisions and see where they lead, so i'll let you know when something exciting happens (or when all my plans fall through, and have to start over hehe).

on the side of work, i go to bible study, tutor a guatemalan family in english, pretend to write my personal statement, wash dishes...you know. this week, when i went to tutor, the family had gone to ranch that morning. and they used to have a ranch. so it was perfectly normal for them to have a sheep head and four sheep legs in the sink, shaving the hair off. and a pot to the side with the rest of the sheep. wow. there were chickens out front too, still alive, but i think not for long. before i left i tried lamb for the first time in prolly over a decade. fresh....

over and out friends.
love, anna