Community.
One word that has come into my mind several times in the five weeks that I have been here is community. NTC is a community itself but it is also connected to several other communities. NTC is like a hub. You never know who you are going to run into. You never know who you will meet for the first time. It's exciting.
I'm blessed to be a part of the NTC community and the community that is the Church of the Nazarene. We are a connected church, we are a global church. It's amazing to be able to hear and see what God is doing in other communities connected to NTC.
Squirrel-gate 2014.
So...there are a lot of squirrels here. Especially around the NTC campus. They are pretty mischievous and pretty greedy when it comes to food. They have chewed a hole in the lid of our dumpster and it's pretty common procedure to kick the side of the dumpster before you open it so you don't have a squirrel jumping towards your face.
Last week, in the building where I stay, a squirrel came in through an open window. It was found by some students (after it had made a mess and eaten some people's food) and promptly shooed out the window again.
The next morning we awoke to find the window sill chewed to bits and another mess made in the kitchen. Thus began the squirrel hunt. Apparently not one but two squirrels came in the previous day and one had been hiding somewhere in the kitchen. After a day of searching, said squirrel was finally found and shooed. It hasn't been seen since.
We thought we had found all the "squirrel damage" until I went to open the freezer yesterday evening. We think that the squirrel knocked the freezer plug out of the outlet resulting in a defrosted freezer and rotten food. "The squirrel strikes again!" was my thought. It has provided us with a good laugh and will be hence forth known as "Squirrel-gate 2014!"
No comments:
Post a Comment