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RE: Travel adventures - BERLIN - Day 3
I don't understand your take on Mrs. J...why is that relationship hard to imagine? lol.. I mean she just ignores me because she has no desire to tease anyone, totally opposite of me in that particular regard.
hey I'm being nice today and tomorrow I can tease so mildly that you probably won't even notice. lol.
I would probably hit your head with a pan!! Strong woman Mrs. J as she hasn't killed you yet! :D
Ok, we can try it your way then :)
ha! no she just ignores me or rolls her eyes. you guys would get along famously. no sense of humor. lol.
Hahaha, I would love to meet that lady!!
haha! yeah you guys would be chatting up a storm and it would be my turn to roll my eyes! lol.
Hey we got some amazing news yesterday regarding Mrs. J. She had felt led to apply for a corrections officer position at our local county jail.
I know, it sounds totally wild and it is.
But she went in for the interview and it was a long one, over an housr sitting there with the 2 people who run the jail system both taking turns asking questions, so it was pretty intense but by the time she finished they were all talking and chatting like old friends! lol.
This was a good indication that this was indeed a God appointment and that He may be opening the door. But we didn't know and the people who were there before her to be interviewed were these great big, tall young guys which makes sense right?
So even though she knew she did good on the interview and got along with them and they liked her, we thought maybe they would require a different type of person to do this work.
Like someone big, a guy, young, etc.
Well, the application they gave her to fill out is about 50 pages and covers every aspect of your life as well as your family's life! So she got that completed, she couldn't get hold of the administrator to ask her a question so she decided to just take the app down in person.
Well, when she gets there she starts talking to the admin lady who she really got along with well the first time and the lady told Mrs. J that the
people running the jail REALLY, REALLY, liked her and she was hired without going through all the other hoops, they told the admin lady to fast-track her application! lol.
so she's going to be a corrections officer for the county jail dealing with rapists, murderers, burglars, drug addicts, you name it! how wild is that?
So anyway when she heard that she was hired that just confirmed that this was a God thing so we are very excited. We've tried so many things since we got here and nothing has opened up and it wasn't since our real estate business that we knew for sure that we were on the path which God had laid out for us.
plus that means I can stay at least for now and work on steemit. at least a little longer.
What a story!! I'm so glad that Mrs. J didn't have to go through the whole process! I hate this kind of formalities!
Congratulations!!! That's such a great news! Yes, this job is very wild BUT if she can handle you she can handle rapists, murderers, burglars, drug addicts, you name it, easily!!!! :D
I'm very happy for you guys!! And especially for you that you can stay at home for now!!
I hope you'll have a glass of bubbles tonight!!
haha! a glass of bubbles..I wish. not happening.
I thought you'd like that story but you didn't find it strange that she would want this kind of work?
I find it totally unreal! lol. But there is a method to her madness.
You see, we live out in the country and there is a property behind us with ten acres, no one is living there now.
Well there's a drug dealer squatting back there at the moment but he won't be there long term.
I don't know what the social programs are like for people getting out of prison over there but over here there are very few programs to help them get back on their feet. Especially the women, there are some programs for men but almost nothing for women.
So we want to build a halfway house back on that property for women but that takes dealing with the court system and we don't know anyone or have any access or friends with the court system.
So she is going in to get connections for this other long term project so we can set this up! It's like a back door way to make friends and connections in the legal system. lol.
I didn't ask because I thought she would take any job as you said she was facing issues to find something.
That is a great project and now her decision to take the job makes sense!! I have no idea how it works here as I don't know anybody who is/was in jail but it's a small country so I don't think there are many people in jail anyway :)
How did you come to such an idea of starting this project?
Martina! so good to hear from you. It's just too bad we aren't officially friends yet...I may have to make an exception for you if that happens..as far as my teasing goes...it would be hard because the more I like someone the more I tease them! hhhhhmmmm that's a conundrum. that's an interesting word.
Well, about the job...she was led by God to apply for that type, it's not a popular one as the prisoners can be very difficult to deal with, many are disrespectful especially to the women, not just disrespectful but nasty.
But the administrator told Mrs. J that the moral was very low at the jail. But it won't be when she gets there, it only takes one person shining and full of the love of God to change the atmosphere so that is one of her first callings and mission to start off with.
We came up with this idea …...well we've been wanting to buy the property behind us ever since we bought ours but didn't have the funds...but she got with a couple of other women who all want to help women when they get out but no one has a place for that and then we thought of that property behind us which would be perfect.
Since it's ten acres and we want work available to keep women busy we want to put animals there to take care of as well as gardens, those will be part of the healing and rehab structure.
We have big plans! Over the years we have helped different people getting out of prison, we have a heart for that but like I said there is almost nothing to help the women recover and heal.
Mrs. J used to go into the prisons with her dad because he had a prison ministry and she was always heart broken by their stories. So there is a great need for such programs and I know we can help a lot of women but we need the court system and some judges on our side. lol. God will take care of the connections but we have to be in a position for that to happen.
I'd love to know the programs they have in Switzerland and how many inmates there are, I know that the United States has more prisoners and prisons than any country in the world! I don't know why though. it's very depressing. we have so many idiots here!
Did you see my post yesterday about the scorpions? and did it freak you out? I didn't warn you because it's pretty mild. Not like that other one, which I didn't realize was so bad or I would have warned you.
You haven't even seen any of my redneck comedy ones, I just realized that, I'll have to do some again.
So what is your agenda for this afternoon or evening?