story time

two recent stories of late... :)
1) from my placement during indoor recess on monday... a dialogue:

R: Melody, are you an intern?
Mel: Yes.
R: You don't look like an intern.
Mel: What does an intern look like?
R: Like her. (She points to my classmate, a fellow intern for the special education teacher, L)
Mel: (I turn to L.) Did you hear that? You look like an intern.
L: I get that a lot. People think I'm a teenager.
Mel: Excuse me. (Point to self.) I look like a teenager! And you're married.
Mel: (To R.) Then what do I look like?
R: A teacher.
Mel: Thanks. (Her comment made me really happy.) But L is married!
R: So are you.
Mel: No, I'm not. I'm not married.
R: Yes, you are. What is your husband's name?
Mel: I don't have a husband.
R: What is your boyfriend's name?
Mel: I don't have a boyfriend.
W: Melody and her boyfriend kissing! (He proceeds to incorporate me into his drawing of mountains, where I am now on a mountaintop kissing my boyfriend.)

Anyways, throughout the rest of that half hour, more and more students became involved. I was given a wedding ring (made out of yellow paper) and taped to my finger. I was made a wedding veil (which was taped to a rubber band and stuffed around my head).

Then they proceeded to drag me out to marry Richard. (Richard is the principal.... who is married and has 3 children.) So then they decide to make me a boyfriend by drawing him on a piece of paper, colouring him and then cutting him out. "This is Dottie," they told me. Haha. I also had pictures of my wedding drawn by them.

This story made me love why I'm there. It was a bit annoying at the end when they told the whole class I was getting married... but it was cute, nonetheless. :)

2) I received a Compassion letter in the mail today. For those of you who don't know, I've been sponsoring a child in Bolivia for 6 years and this year, I got a new sponsor child. In his letter to me it said this:

"I greet you with very much love. I am sad because my mother and my relatives drink too much. I ask you please pray for them and I ask a favour please write to me and tell me how you are. Right now I am fine. I attend to the centre and I also went to visit to my uncles and I played with my cousin Luis and Melvin. I also had vacation and I did my homework. I love you very much."

Receiving a letter from my child always makes me happy, but this letter is the second letter I have ever received from him and he is telling me things that are upon his heart. I heart my child... :( If you ever feel burdened to sponsor a child, feel free to ask how my experience has been. I've loved every moment of it. :)

Perhaps more stories later...