Whenever something absolutely mind-blowing happens when I follow a student manager for the day I get a laugh or maybe even a profound dumbfounded expression followed up by the saying, "the bookfield by Southwestern."
Now I am starting to say that myself at times, because it is kind of funny.
I've been here in Alabama just over two weeks so far and I have already seen a whole new world of things that I'd never expect to see. I see poverty that is on par with the poverty I have seen in the third-world contries that I visited during my family's mission trips. I have seen trailers that run the gamut from essentially condemnable to some that are nicer than the inside of my house.
Trailers here seem to be more of a permanent thing than I'd ever think of them as being. People build wood, stone and concrete attachments to their trailers and keep them for not months or years, but decades. Trailers are often found right next to amazingly beautiful, big brick houses. Sometimes they are even in the back yard of a house -- because the family finally moved into the house stage, built a house on their property and never hauled the old trailer away. It is all surreal to me, and I think I am even getting used to it.
...to be continued.
Posted by David at May 23, 2004 09:11 AM