Bernie workout, Neighborhood House, Teach English

March 28, 2024

Oh my God I barely have time to get this done before midnight. I’ve gotta admit that today felt like a day that was specifically designed to rub it in my face that I might be happy. There’s just too much good going on. In the morning I worked out with Bernie, which happened because my yoga teacher had a substitute and I decided I’d have a better time skipping yoga to work out with Bernie. Afterwards, I volunteered at Neighborhood House for a couple hours, including working with that guy Ben who’s in my photo, before I ran home and talked to Talia a bit and also succeeded in taking my medication at 4pm with two slices of 5g fat cheese and a bit of milk in my tea. Afterwards, I tried a new volunteer opportunity that was literally teaching English to immigrants who chose to attend classes. The organization, which was hosted out of the Blaisdell YMCA, was quite pleased I could speak some Spanish, because all of the people I worked with today were Ecuadorian or Mexican. I even managed to basically lead a class with two Mexican girls that was called the “intermediate” class. I started with the beginner class, but they asked me to pop over to intermediate because the teacher was late. That’s when I ended up teaching it for a bit. This was yet another situation where my “yo hablo español” pin that came from Open Door was very useful. Afterwards, I stayed all the way til 8pm, the actual end time, instead of leaving early to go to a different event like I thought I might. When I finished, I went straight to my other event, which was attending a stand up comedy show with the some people from the Spanish group that I attend on Monday nights. One of the stand up comedians talked about “bonding through suffering,” which I deeply agree with. A guy also talked about having an autoimmune disease, which made me think that maybe I should try to jump into stand-up comedy with all of my medical trauma. Afterwards, we all played a few games of something like shuffleboard, where you slide things across a slick wood surface. Oh well, I didn’t even come close to finishing this before midnight. Welcome to my 12:20 am post. I’m not adding any of the pictures from playing our game at the end of the night because I have more than enough of other content that feels important to include.