Today at the soup kitchen I had quite a lot of fun and it really helped me get my mind off of things.
I was in the kitchen again, as usual. Today was unusual though, because I was with Rebeka. I haven't been at the soup kitchen with her before, but today was really fun. She helped me serve the soup and she was really good at it. She got the hang of it really fast!
We were joking around pretty much the whole time. I think that's really nice, because it also puts a smile on everyone's faces who come to get the soup. Maybe it bothers our customers a bit, but no one has told me to tone it down yet, so I suppose it's ok.
There was this one guy today, who came up to ask for the soup - which customers aren't allowed to do - and he was speaking in Russian, so I didn't know how to answer him. I could understand pretty much what he was saying, but I don't speak Russian well enough to actually answer him. Anyways, one of the supervisors came to talk to him and then she told us that he wanted to take soup to go and he was in a hurry. So he gave us his jar - which was ice cold - and I put the hot soup in it, and then he walked away and the next thing I knew, the jar was broken. Then he poured it into a plastic jar, but the told us that he didn't want that one because there were pieces of glass in it. So we poured that away, washed the plastic jar and gave him more soup, but he was worried that we hadn't taken the glass out. He didn't trust us at all, even though - why would we want to hurt him?
I was in the kitchen again, as usual. Today was unusual though, because I was with Rebeka. I haven't been at the soup kitchen with her before, but today was really fun. She helped me serve the soup and she was really good at it. She got the hang of it really fast!
We were joking around pretty much the whole time. I think that's really nice, because it also puts a smile on everyone's faces who come to get the soup. Maybe it bothers our customers a bit, but no one has told me to tone it down yet, so I suppose it's ok.
There was this one guy today, who came up to ask for the soup - which customers aren't allowed to do - and he was speaking in Russian, so I didn't know how to answer him. I could understand pretty much what he was saying, but I don't speak Russian well enough to actually answer him. Anyways, one of the supervisors came to talk to him and then she told us that he wanted to take soup to go and he was in a hurry. So he gave us his jar - which was ice cold - and I put the hot soup in it, and then he walked away and the next thing I knew, the jar was broken. Then he poured it into a plastic jar, but the told us that he didn't want that one because there were pieces of glass in it. So we poured that away, washed the plastic jar and gave him more soup, but he was worried that we hadn't taken the glass out. He didn't trust us at all, even though - why would we want to hurt him?
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