racoons!

When I was in one of the resorts guest houses, one of my co-workers says "OH MY GOODNESS!" and when I looked out the window we saw a family of raccoons wrestling around in the grass around the pool chairs. I pulled out my phone and tried to take them quickly so they are a little blurry but you can get the idea anyways :)

My Job

So after graduation I started right away on my search for a job. I really wanted an office job because I love working with computers and I enjoy customer service. Apparently though...none of the ads in the paper or online were really interested in hiring an entry level office assistant like they said. So, I moved on to my next choices. I've always been interested in the medical field and having done some volunteer work for HOSPICE, I thought I could get a job as a caregiver or companion. No places near me were hiring and due to the recent gas prices, I couldn't afford to travel very far every day. Then I stumbled upon an add for a Resort that was hiring. So I thought, "Why not?" (knowing that I couldn't be too picky) and sent in my resume. Within 24 hours I was called in for an interview. Because of my faith I had one condition about my work schedule; I could work anytime but Sunday and Wednesday night since I went to church. This eliminated the first position I applied for but I ended up getting hired for the night crew doing laundry, turn-down service, miscellaneous cleaning, etc... This wasn't my first choice at all. Going from hoping to be in an office to being the one that cleans it. But I was so happy to get job and eager to start. Now I'm going on my second month of working there. If anyone tells you that housekeeping at a resort is easy, they were lying. It is hard hard work and I spend a lot of my off time sleeping and when I'm not at church or sleeping, I'm yawning. We have reached the rainy season here, and since we go from room to room in golf carts I spent all last night soaked completely through by the rain. Still, I work with a great group of people even if they speak Spanish and broken English and I only speak English. Haha, it makes for some very interesting conversations full of hand motions and lots of laughing. I've seen a few things I would rather not have seen and been in a golf cart that crashed and been covered in cactus. ( you know the tiny kind that you can't see and they get stuck between your fingers and you find them for weeks and weeks after). But all in all, I have a good dependable job...and thats more than I could as for as I get ready for college.

Right Now

Its been two months since I had to stand up in front of my school and give "words of wisdom" to my class that were in the same boat as I. To tell you the truth, I was actually more nervous that I would trip going up to get my diploma than I was about my speech. I could not have been more relieved when it was all over...but then...something hit me, the idea that I was now at the end of my life as I had always known it. No more high school, no more being a teenager depending on other people...for the most part...its all up to me now. I have a lot of things that are going to be coming at me. Decisions I am not aware that I will have to make. Maybe my life, as it is...mistakes, successes, difficult circumstances, CHANGES...can be a help to someone else.