The Number One Son Report

Jul. 19, 2007 - Lessons of One Kind and Another

Number One Son says:
"I am learning I am not cut out psychologically to live alone.  It is really hard to eat by yourself staring across an empty table two meals out of three.  Tired of talking to myself, so to speak.  I only come in regular contact with one regular English speaker."
 
"I asked for an evening off to meet with one of Mama's friends (who is their visiting with our brothers and sisters in the assembly) for dinner and Honorable Uncle said that he'd heard me.  I needed to remind him, but he was in a huge hurry this morning and gave me a project and left for a factory.  The trip took six hours, then when he got back we had to work through the project and I didn't get to get off until it was too late for dinner.  I was very disappointed."
"My uncle and I seem to be having a difficult time communicating.  I feel like he misunderstands what I say all the time.  I really desire to please him and to learn all I can from him,  but this is very hard."
 
"I am having a very hard time concentrating on one project for  8 hrs straight with no break.  It is very hard to keep that up and to be working efficiently all the time.  The hours we keep are very long and strange.  I am always hungry, but by the time I get free to eat, nothing is open except fast food - very frustrating!"
 "Good news is that the LCD screen for my camera is $45 US to replace, judging from an Internet search.  It's rather involved to take it apart but it can be done by average people.  I don't know if it can be done cheaply here, but at least when I get home I can fix it.  Some services will replace it, labor and all, for about $80.  The camera would be like $400 to replace (it was a gift to the children from Honorable Uncle).
"I am working as hard as I'm able on my math, pray I'll have time to do what I need to."  [Number One Son has to finish Precalculus this summer.]  I am reading my Bible and Spurgeon and praying constantly - you have to - to survive."
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