Terror on the Teche

The past week was good. Tuesday was insane! The day started out at the dentist, where the doctor declared my teeth good. Yeah!! Then, I ran to work, where I had 30 minutes to set up and prepare for my computer class. I was teaching the patrons how to set up and manage an email account; however, half of the computers didn't have internet connection! We muddle through…I had to work late, since I went in late, and I ran home in time to turn around and go to dinner with a friend. We ate at Sicily's Italian Buffet in Broussard and I loved it! Wednesday, I did some volunteer work (doing some one-on-one computer tutoring). It was nice; I've wanted to do something for a while.

I had a fun-filled Saturday. First, I went to Washington with the Davis'. We took a pretty little drive north to get there. Washington was settled in 1720 and they have an old brick school where antique dealers come and sell their things. It's aptly named The Old School Antique Mall. The antiques were neat, but I was more excited to see the building itself. We started in the gym and they still have the old wooden bleachers and the stage. We spent an hour wondering around there (it's huge!). They had old antique furniture, toys, books, etc. I actually found the movie "A Patch of Blue"-It looked brand new and it was only $2! I love that movie and I should have bought it, but I didn't. We finally went in the actual school and it is amazing! (I love the structure of old buildings). Its 2 stories tall, with one long hallway on each floor and a set of staircases at both ends of the building. Completed with dark wood floors and high ceilings, with little ventilation windows above each of the classroom doors, it felt like what a school should feel like...Does that make sense to anyone? I snuck one picture from the inside and then took a couple outside. New Iberia has an old school just like Washington's, only bigger, on Center Street. Our's has been converted into apartments.



Saturday night I volunteered to help with Terror on the Teche. The library put it on, along with Shadows on the Teche (the old antebellum house on Main St.). It was held outside and the guests took a graveled path, lit by candles, through the graveyard of the family that lived in the plantation (with the cement coffins, or what ever you call the graves above ground) past skeletons and spiders hanging from the moss covered oak trees, to get to their seats. I saw vampires and witches, fairies and princesses, clowns and singers, and 3 batmans emerge out of the cemetery. It was truly a site to see! We had a storyteller, named Sylvia Davis, come. She told stories that have been pasted down in her family. I had the easy job of crowd control (we had about 200 people come). And as soon as we got people situated, I got to go sit and listen to the stories. Sylvia was up on a little stage and we had a spotlight shinning on her from the ground. As she moved around, weaving her tales of terror, it was cool to watch her shadow dance up and down on the Shadows on the Teche, which was directly behind her…very fitting for the occasion. Finally, we handed out little bags of candy to the children as they left.

Last, been not least, I finally got a calling at church. Last week, they asked me to fill in at Nursery and I didn't have a clue what I was doing! I barely survived the 2 hours and then the Branch President asked to speak with me. I was fervently hoping I wasn't going to be called to Nursery (I didn't think I could handle that every week!). Well, I got lucky. Yesterday, I was sustained as the secretary in the Primary. This will be a totally new experience for me. I haven't been to Primary since I was 11 years old. I didn't even remember how the classes went! And I'm jumping right in because for the next 3 weeks we're practicing for the Primary Program. I didn't know half the songs they are singing, so I'm going to have to find a book and start memorizing. Basically, I'll be in charge of taking roll (which means I need to hurry and learn all the kids' names, we only have 16, so we don't have separate rolls for the teachers. We also don't have a junior and a senior primary, but combined), keeping everything organized and filling in when we don't have a teacher, ect. I'm excited; it’s definitely a new challenge!