Posted by me at RGBP:
Ah, I have a tear in my eye...this is the last post I will make at
this blog location, because the RevGals blog will be moving to its new
location TOMORROW! Come right back here to this spot for the Preacher
Party and you'll find a link for the redirect.
And for today, here's a Friday Five looking at the other end of things: Firsts.
With so many folks starting school, college, seminary, etc. I've been
thinking of a lot of other firsts in my life. Share with us, if you
will:
1. Your first "place" - whether it was an apartment, dorm room, or home
with a new spouse, the first place where you really felt like a
grown-up:
I think the first place was my first apartment, shared with Lori and Jo Ann, in my junior year of college. It had 2 bedrooms upstairs with a shared bath, and a half bath downstairs. I remember that as we were moving in, Lori's dad pointed out that we had "a carpet with a view": yes, the horrible shag carpet and pad were gone and the cement slab showed through. We put the sofa over that....
2. Your first time away from home. Construe this any way you want. College? Girl Scout Camp? Study Abroad?
I went to sleep-away Girl Scout camp for 2 weeks when I was about 9. It was too long, looking back, for a fairly fragile little girl whose family had been in some turmoil. I remember learning all the camp songs that take forever to sing; being instructed by a counselor that if someone asked me to pass the salt, it was proper to pass both salt and pepper (I have never forgotten that!) and being slapped in the face for the first time (by another camper).
3. Your first job in your field of endeavor (so, not babysitting, unless you are A Professional Babysitter today):
I began working in the study abroad office at Texas A&M the week I got my bachelor's degree. I've been in International Education ever since, with this being the 26th year.
4. Your first time hosting. Again, construed broadly, this could be a
dinner for the in-laws, your first time to have guests for a holiday
meal, etc.
In that first apartment with the view in the carpet, we had a super-gob-sloptious Thanksgiving dinner. We brought all the tables we could find and lined them up, and put bedsheets over them. Our friend Ky cooked a turkey so big that it barely fit in our oven. That night we went to the Texas A&M vs. UT football game.
5. Your first love.That can be a person or something else!!
I have to copy someone else (St. Inskuk I think) and say, reading. I learned to read at age 4 and it has been my constant friend and companion.
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