A Busy Week

I thought it would be a busy week and it certainly was. My online Moodle English as a Second Language student from New York City came back to Worcester for a brief weekend visit. She kindly invited me to go apple picking with her church group out to Tougas Farms in Northboro and that was lots of fun. They were a very fun-loving yet serious minded group of people as well. I met one lady from Lebanon and her teenaged daughter who live in Boston. She was very proud of the fact that her daughter goes to Boston Latin School. I would be too. It is probably the best high school in America! This particular lady gave me a small cup of what I call 'Turkish coffee". Have you ever drunk that? You have to acquire a taste for it.... I don't know how much "my lady scientist" will appreciate my blabbing about her on my blog, but, I will tell you something: My experiences over the past year and a half have convinced me that there are certain people in this world who desrve the label DEDICATED TO THEIR JOB. Here they are: Research Scientists, Doctors, Priests, Teachers. I am sure there are others, but those are the ones that I can give examples for. Research scientists? They work all kinds of hours. The same is true for the medical doctor.(try tutoring one when they have a million lectures to attend!) A priest? They have weddings and funerals and still I know one who has a parish out of town who STILL finds time to say Mass at a local nursing home for about 25 elderly patients every Thursday morning. Teachers? I have been a teacher all my life and I have seen very few of my colleagues that I would not be proud of. There is one thing for sure for all four professions. You cannot fool people. If you believe in what you do and you are dedicated to it, it will show through to everybody after awhile. The same is also true if you are a "phony baloney" so to speak.
Well, enough of the lectures. I also had fun last week helping Quinsigamond Community College enroll ESL students in their day and evening programs. They will have a huge waiting list, but the state finds itself in difficult financial circumstances and not much can be done about it.