What's the Point?

Things I'm currently thankful for:

Having a laptop that works

Amazing family and friends

Good news that I received last night :)

Funny students that make me laugh (see story below)

Salad (see below as well)

Inspiration to write a song- it's been a while

My cheap Mexican guitar

The fact that it's currently 76 degrees outside

I found my cell phone (I tend to lose it a lot)

The scriptures

The power of prayer

Safety

Emails from friends- they make my day.

So- here's the story that I promised. Complete with pictures so you could understand (hopefully) the humor in it.

I was organizing the utensils that we have in the kitchen. Being a program that mostly accepts donations, we have one spoon/fork/knife from every set of silverware that has been sold in the US. Sort of ghetto, but get's the job done. During this organization process, I came across this little number:

Needless to say, I was thoroughly confused. I turned to one of my teachers, Sylvia who was teaching a kitchen class at the time and asked "What is the point of this?" After I asked, one of the girls from the class came up and touched the tallest prong of the "fork" and said "OUCH!"

For those of you who haven't taught an ILP class, the girl was showing us WHERE the point of the utensil was.

And this is why I love kids.

Second story that will be humorous to those who have seen Nacho Libre:

I have not eaten a salad since I've been in Mexico and it's something that you start to crave when every meal starts and ends with "tortillas". This afternoon, the heavens opened up and my host mom brought out the most beautiful thing I've ever seen:

A SALAD!

I was so excited! I may have even said "Can't we have a salad or something?" numerous times. I also poured the ranch on the salad like Nacho does. I resisted crumbling up tortilla chips and blowing them onto the salad as well. I'm sure my host family thought I was crazy.

So hopefully that gave some a good laugh, some others will be really confused, feel free to laugh anyway.

So when you turn your face to the heavens and ask "What's the point?" Realize that there's always a point- right in the center of the fork.