Day In the Life Of

Technically, I've been here for almost a month. If you ask me, it's pretty crazy to believe. I'm still in that honeymoon phase of my internship, meaning I haven't really settled in or I haven't hit my first crisis yet.  I think it will happen pretty soon, though.

My days have mostly been pretty laidback so far. I was told that I'd just spend the first little while following the people around seeing what they do, and I don't mind it. Less responsibility makes for a happy me! However, once the end of June hits, I will be quite busy.

As of now, my days are quite awesome - hard to believe that this is what I do when I go to work. I would get to church around 9 in the morning. The three of us pastors like to pray first thing in the morning and just have a bit of a chat to get the day going. This might take up half an hour, it might take up a full hour. Then at 10, we do a coffee thing where if people from the community want to come in, we have coffee with them. If not, the three of us will have coffee ourselves. This can often go until lunch. If not, we'll end around 11:30 and have half an hour to do whatever.

When I decide to go for lunch, I usually just come home and make something. Let me just note now, that cooking for yourself has got to be one of the most tedious things ever, and I don't like doing it. And because I don't have the luxury to buy a million different foods to have a big variety, I've been eating mostly the same things every day.

After lunch, the day can become a little more diverse. If there is someone that I am to go visit, that usually happens in the afternoon. If not, I just hang around in church and kind of do whatever. Read, play guitar, etc., it's basically up to me or whatever I need to get ready for the weekend.

There's also no real set office hours for pastors, so when it gets late enough that work seems to be done, whether that's at 5 or whatever, then I'll head home to make supper! I've mostly had chicken... Sad that I've already spent $200 trying to fill the kitchen and all I can really cook for now is chicken and vegetables. I know that this will only happen for the first (and maybe second) month, so once I have most of my things, all I'm really left to buy is the actual food rather than all the spices and other things to make it. Not too bad, I guess. I'm still alive, so my food can't be that bad, right?

The rest of the evening I just kind of do whatever I normally do no matter where I am. So, this has basically been a day in my life here in Assiniboia thus far. Nothing real exciting, yet, but it's going to pick up real soon. Establishing routines are part of most jobs, but the joys of working with people is that there will always be variety and change to keep things exciting!