ACADEMY OVER

The Academy on Disaster is over today at noon and all will be heading to various parts of the U.S.   Our campus will get very quiet as two more Long Term Volunteers also leave today.

Now we WILL miss the LTV's.  They have been the host and hostess in the dorm since we arrived in October.   They are two of the shortest people I've ever known and also two of the nicest.   She is not only hostess she is in charge of the gift shop.   She ordered things from SERVV and would open it anytime anyone wanted to buy something.   We've had a really good time with them and will miss them.   BUT...we learned this week that they live on the East side of Iowa and after we get moved we will be able to meet them now and then in Quincy, IL or other places on the river for lunch.

Now, to the Academy leaving.   We will not miss them.   They come in and take our dining area, make us eat early or later than they do and disrupt our daily routine.   They sure have had their nerve.   Don't they know us old people don't like to have our meals disrupted?   For heaven's sake.

They want to sit and talk after a meal and all I want to do is get them out of the cafateria so I can clean the tables up for the kitchen help.   Sometimes they have trouble taking a hint that we want them to leave.   After I've leaned over a couple to set the salt and pepper shakers back where they belong and straighten up the napkin holder they finally decide they are in my way.   If doing that doesn't work I squirt some of the cleaner on the table in front of them and that usually does the trick.

Seriously, they have been a very good group but they did take our dining are for a class room and so we had to eat before or after they did as the cafateria won't hold but so many people.

I'll work this morning in the sewing room, then I'm taking a week off.   Ted will do the mail next week and probably play with the fork lift with no one in the Depot.   On Thursday we plan to leave here in the morning and head toward Biloxi.   I'm going to get a room this afternoon and hopefully we can spend a couple of days on a beach.  Had an email from Connie and they are probably going to meet us too.   It will be good to see them as we are getting really homesick - I am anyway.  Benjamin will be with his dad but we can have a good time with Connie and Jim.

SO...unless something really exciting happens here within the next few days -

YA ALL have a HAPPY THANKSGIVING and we'll see you soon.