Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Convent Q & A

Question: What are your responsibilities besides classes and prayers?

Answer:  In writing, our other responsibilities include supervising the girls and selling the breakfast/snacks in the morning before school, handing out the high school lunches, selling snacks at lunch time, wiping down tables at lunch time, and helping clean up at the Provincial House after lunch.  We also have weekly assigned chores for after mealtimes and Saturday. These include things like washing dishes, setting up for breakfast, mopping, cleaning the classroom, cleaning the chapel, etc.  The six of us also teach CCD on Sundays at a couple local parishes. 

To be honest our other responsibilities are whatever the Sisters feel like having us do today.  Since our schedule is considered to be the most flexible in the whole house because we aren't specifically tied to classrooms or other jobs. We do anything from driving around some of the elderly Sisters to becoming moving crews for the Sister in charge of grounds keeping.  Everybody takes turns signing up to cook on Saturday and Sunday, so occasionally that is also something I do.  

3 comments:

The Mrs. said...

New question: is there a hazing period for the new sisters on the block? Like, do the older sisters like to mess with you for entertainment purposes? The General and I were discussing this the other day. He asked if teachers like to mess with new people, and I couldn't really think of an example. It's a pretty supportive environment for the most part. He, on the other hand, was able to rattle off a long list of examples of ways the veterans mess with the rookies (sending people to find striped paint and/or bed stretchers are two that immediately come to mind - I'm sure you can imagine the joy retelling these stories brought him).

The Bride said...

Ooo good question Mrs!!!

And driving around other sisters, good thing you have experience with the Big Bed Bus

Munchkin said...

When you cook, is it s'more based?

Hazing is fun. On my first day back after graduation before I was licensed, one of the techs told me we had started back counting the stock bottles of all controls. I had just opened and use very little out of a 500 ct bottle of generic Darvocet and she watched me back cont 496 pills before telling me the truth.