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Welcome to Beverly's Oasis for Random Thoughts. Please take a look around often as I will be updating when you least expect it. I hope you enjoy all that you read and I whole-heartedly welcome any comment you have. ~Beverly
Sweet and Sour
07.01.04 (9:16 am)   [edit]
I see that I haven't posted in quite some time, so I figured this morning was a good time to sit down and write something. I'm suffering from my first cold in a long time (for me) and so have nothing else to do right now. ;)

I have been pretty busy lately. I was chosen as the summer office intern at Oasis For Girls! They were only hiring one young woman and they had about ten applicants, but they felt that I was best suited for the job this year. I went through orientation earlier this week and it seems like it will be a great job and a terrific learning experience.

On Tuesday Josh and I went to City College San Francisco to turn in my financial aid papers and pick up some scholarship information. Because of exasperating experiences with Seattle Central Community College's financial aid office, I was not really looking forward to going. It was a much better experience, though. I was very relieved as an incompetent financial aid office is the only thing I hate about college. The workers there were very nice and took time to answer questions. I will be going back to CCSF next week to take placements tests and will be registering for classes soon as they start August 18. I'm really excited for that, but a little nervous as I've only taken online courses so far and it's been about five years since I was going to classes in High School. Josh said that he will help me find my classes ahead of time so that I know where to go. That is so sweet of him because I am very directionally challenged and do not want to get lost on my first day. :)

Yesterday I had an upsetting, but enlightening experience. I was walking towards home from Market street by myself and was stopped by a Spanish speaking man asking my what time it was and pointing at my watch. I was going to take off my watch so that I could show him without getting that close to a stranger, but thought better of it when I realized it would be way to easy for him to steal my watch that way. (My watch is only a Wal-Mart special that was on sale for two dollars, but since it is the only watch I have and I like it, I didn't want to lose it.) He came up and held my arm while he studied my watch. This made me a little uncomfortable, but he seemed nice and my watch is hard to read since it doesn't have numbers, so I gave him a couple moments. I started getting suspicious, though, when he was taking so long and sneaking small glances at my engagement/wedding ring. I tightened my fingers around it as I read to him what time it was and politely tried to take my arm back. He then proceeded to kiss my hand and so I smiled, but tried once again to take my hand away. As I did, he slid his hand over mine and quickly tried to snatch my ring off my finger. I was already suspicious of him, though and so had moved my thumb underneath it to hold onto it. This kept it on my finger when he tried to take it. After he tried to steal it he took off, so there was nothing else I could do. I was still about a block from the police station we live close by, so he would have been too far away once I got in there to tell anyone. I just came on home with the good feeling that I had outsmarted him, but still a little shaken over the whole experience.

This is the first time anything like this has every happened to me and it has made me more wary of strangers. I don't think, however, that I will assume that everyone is out to rob or hurt me. I don't think a person should let anything like this take away their trust in humanity. Everyone is different and not everyone is out to rip me off. I won't let this one poor, misguided person rob me of seeing the best in everyone I meet.

~Beverly