Job Differences

  

I find it at times funny how North America and South America function so differently.  I have been on the job for three weeks now.  This is my first week I work five afternoons instead of three, so I think that is helping understand what I am doing a little better. 
     In the States (and I think Canada and most of Europe) we get a very detailed job description where we have to sign a piece of paper saying that we understand our obligations and agree to follow them and any changes that may come along.  Here, my description was I would be working with street kids to help with their home work.  Not a big deal, but now I know that they are not street kids because street kids don't go to school.  I think they are poverty children that need help and without it may drop out of school.  Or at risk kids to be street kids.  
     I am starting to understand what some of them are saying a little better.  I find that just because I can say the right thing, it doesn't mean that they understand me or me understand them.  My accent makes it difficult for them and vise versa.  However, they are so kind and polite that it helps me so much with being more patient and not get frustrated.  I love these kids and the ladies that I work with.
¹⁸ Now these are the ones sown among thorns; they are the ones who hear the word, ¹⁹ and the cares of this world, the deceitfulness of riches, and the desires for other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful. ²⁰ But these are the ones sown on good ground, those who hear the word, accept it, and bear fruit: some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some a hundred.”

Matthew 4:18-20