Homely

So this weekend one of my roommates had both her sisters visiting. It was rather random, one of her sisters skis for her college and the championships were being held in Anchorage this year, how lucky is that. But anyway we were sitting around on Saturday and talking about how our second retreat was coming up. The conversation lead to talking about the other communities and how all the communities had certain characteristics about them. For example, Bethel is very outgoing and loud, Sitka is very laid back and meditative, and Juneau is all girls. So I mentioned that I felt like our community didn't really any characteristics that stood out. But one of Abby's sisters spoke up and said that she thought the complete opposite and after some thought said that we were all very homely. Haha what she was going for was homey and inviting but what she said instead was that we were a very unattractive community. So we now are known as the community of the ugly people.

On another note today I had a women come into the office and request to talk to me. We have clients walk in and out of our office every day and we hear a lot of stories. So today the women walks in and tells me that she thinks that this women she knows at the other shelter is being abused. So I sit there for about 20 minutes and listen to this women and the meeting ends with me telling her I will do my best. But the problem is that I really can't do anything about it. First it's happening at another shelter, second the person who's being abused needs to come to us herself, and third the women who reported it doesn't want anyone to know she's talking about it. So that is a great start to a Monday morning. But to make the day even worse, I've seen the guy at least 5 times today and to make me feel even worse he just came in and she was standing behind him. As they were leaving she turns around twice to look at me before she slowly walks to follow him. This job is hard, I understand now why they have new people come in every year. I am ready for a new day to begin with some sunshine and warm weather. It has been a week since the temperature has been above zero. Most mornings I make the walk to work in negative 10 to 15 degree weather. But at least I get to go home to my homely community.