Yesterday I gave a tour of the Scheel Center to a group of volunteers from Bismarck. Last week I also gave a tour of Casa Jackson. It is interesting to be involved enough in this organization to be able to inform others of its programs. Or it is interesting that the organization allows noobs like me to show people around. Probably the former. I think.
Casa Jackson, by the way, is still conspicuously empty. Only seven kids. The social worker is out sick, and has been for a week. The director had to go to the U.S. for a couple weeks. They are the ones orchestrating admissions, so without them, we are at a baby plateau. Because there are so few babies, there are often too many volunteers. What is an organization to do with a mass of unskilled workers? Of course, this isn´t the worst problem to have. If the director reaches her goal of having 20 babies at Casa, I´m thinking there won´t be enough volunteers, and that will be more difficult. In happier Casa news, the newer babies who were sullen only two weeks ago are starting to become more comfortable. The kids who come in are often sick, and most likely physically uncomfortable, not to mention confused, sad, angry, whatever because they´ve been seperated from their families. Within a few weeks, though, they tend to feel a bit better. I saw one little boy walk and talk for the first time yesterday. (I don´t mean I witnessed his very first words and steps. I mean that it was the first time he walked or talked in my presence, maybe his first time walking or talking at Casa Jackson.) Whatever the case, pretty neat.
This morning (because there were many volunteers at Casa) I helped to make the sandwiches for volunteers who are out at house-building sites. One of these volunteers was named Ryan Huber. Neat. I know.
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