Minnehaha Food Shelf with Babs and Spanish with Paola

May 2, 2023: Well let’s start today by doing over the things that I failed to put in yesterday. Well today this morning I found my notebook that I thought I’d lost. Literally Papa came over to help me look and he literally just opened up my blue backpack that I hadn’t checked yet, and it was right there. To start with the notes I missed, basically yesterday I wore the blue dangly earrings and I asked mom where they were from, and she said she also didn’t know but it’s possible they were from before the accident. I also ate some lunch at Papa’s house after I came from the Jessica meeting, which was hash browns with blueberry jam and avocado and sausage. While I was home with Papa I also randomly introduced him to a guy who I’ve been talking to from a language learning app a lot. He’s also named Luis, but is from Argentina and is not the Luis I was taking photos for yesterday. In the talk Papa said that he had heard that they were both teachers, and frankly I felt like they could really get along. I also wrote that I was kind of worried about not having AA batteries for my flash when I went to meet Luis from Valleyfair, and actually when I met up with Luis I was currently looking for a place where I could buy some. I also told Luis that when I was first recovering I couldn’t even remember what I’d eaten for breakfast that same day. I also learned that Darrin, one of the other two guys who were there, is the general manager for the colosseum at the State Fair. Luis also said that he’d left Nordic Waffles, the place that I saw him working at in the State Fair like two years ago. And then I just have notes saying that they were expecting the clean photos by the same night and that maybe I could work on cropping some in front of the background of the State Fair the next day. So that’s what I missed from yesterday. Oh and today I’ve looked at the photos and downloaded a few crowd shots from the state fair, but I’m not actually sure how they’d like them to look so I texted and emailed Luis and asked him to send me some examples. Oh and let me get to today. Basically today the first thing I did was I went to take a blood test for the cancer. What happened was Papa came over to help me look for my notebook that I lost yesterday, and then he took me to the blood test too just since he was here. At the blood test they had a totally impossible time finding my veins. I literally told him before he even started that I was always a hard stick, and then I definitely was. He ended up poking me three times, even though he said they usuallly only do two, and where he finally got blood was like on the back of my left forearm, a place that I’ve never had blood drawn before in my life. I did ask the guy’s name who was taking my blood, and it was Mark Washa. I literally even texted myself the name so I wouldn’t forget it, even though it’s extremely unimportant. Then I went to the Minnehaha Food Shelf, the place where they desperately need my Spanish translation help. I sat at the front desk with a woman named Barb, and also Nancy who is the one who put me on the schedule. They both said that I was incredibly helpful, since unlike Open Door literally every single client speaks only Spanish on Tuesday mornings, and Barb and Nancy don’t at all. So I basically translated a ton. Then around the end of my time there I also went downstairs, where I’ve never been before, and learned a bit about how the system works down there. There I worked with a lot of people, including two women named Karen and Nan, and I was considering taking a photo with one of them, especially since I told Karen and Nan about the TBI and said thst the one thing I didn’t forget was my Spanish. But then my dad’s friend Babs came in and I did one with her. Apparently she has some refugees from Afghanistan staying with her and they need food. So she didn’t end up actually being able to pick up food for them today bedcause she wasn’t officially listed on their sign up sheets with the “permission to have someone else collect food for me” thing, which actually happened dozens of times today before her too. It’s just interesting that it also happpened with her. So then I went home and wrote all this up, and also took my night medication because it was over two hours after I’d had a slice of pizza at the Minnehaha, food shelf even though it wasn’t 12 hours apart. I mean, I was hungry anyways, so at least I’m not doing it with a granola bar I’m not hungry for. What I did was I had the meds at 3:41pm with a honey siracha chicken protein bowl for 11g of fat. Oh and now before my Spanish class tonight at 6pm, I’m just working on these and cleaning my desktop off and looking at the yearbook a bit. Got an alarm for 5:16pm. So at the Spanish class, which I went to on time, Paige was the first person there and it was just us two for a few minutes. I also showed her my pin from Open Door that says “yo hablo español.” My instructor Atala said that for food bank, you should say despensa de comida, not comedor, like somone online told me. I was also kind of wondering what words I’d need to learn to explain my cancer situation in Spanish, since I was telling Atala about it before the class a bit and I didn’t have the words. There was also this girl there named Paola, and she said she was 44, and I told her she only looked 20, which was true. Took a pic of her in class too! Then in between the two Spanish classes I also messaged Jodi and asked what she was doing tonight, and honestly I’m not gonna see her or anything, just gonna go to bed. I’m gonna check out Liam’s website for his company first though, which Liam sent to me at like 8pm. I’m also putting in the picture of some cards we played in Spanish, called El¡ It was a cool game where you’d read a question about what things you’d like to have or do, and have to answer it, all in Spanish. Oh and when I was leaving the teacher asked me to maybe send her my homework questions answered in an email while I was in Florida. Damn, didn’t finish this yesterday but now I did.