3.19.2008

Sometimes I feel mute

setting- nursing assistant trying to help a patient get ready for a shower

me: "Hola! Um..okay, Voy ah..voy a ayudarle a qui-tarse?"
(I'm going to help you undress)


patient: "No entiende nada."
(I didn't understand a thing that you just said)

me: "oh."

3.15.2008

Academic Revelation

"I didn’t have enough time to read this paper and so I thought- I’m just going to skim it and turn in a bad assignment. Then I had a revelation- the point was to read the article and understand it, so I did that and didn’t do the assignment." - AC