What’s a Girl to Do???
You see…we have this ratio problem at Bethesda. While the boys mildly out number the girls in the child world at Bethesda, when it comes to staff, we have far more ladies than men. With that in mind, what is a girl to do when she has a list of projects and not enough guys to handle them around the property?
Well, then answer often must be, find a way to do it yourself or get other ladies that can help you. We aren’t your ordinary ladies at Bethesda! 8) In the last couple months there have been many tasks to be managed. Some of the ladies (staff, interns and a housemother) helped to put out a bush fire and protect our houses, while Heather and I have built…yes, built, cubbyholes for our classrooms and installed a dishwasher.
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- The whole Bethesda firefighting crew
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- Alyssa helping one of the kids out of the ditch
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- Janet carrying buckets of water to block the bush fire
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- Lenah (a housemother) helping put out the fire
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- The cubby completely installed in Heather’s classroom!
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- Who needs a bakkie when you have my wonder car…Heather’s cubby is in there…yep it’s two meters tall almost and Heather and I both got in the car with it!
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- More shelf priming
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- Attempting to prime the shelves for painting…the second time we built one, we decided to prime before building…it went much better :).
None of this girl-power stuff is meant to say that we don’t need guys, in-fact…if you know any guys that would like to come to Bethesda to be an intern for a few weeks or a couple months, I’m sure we would all be delighted to have them…we have enough “honey-do” lists around here to keep a good number of guys and gals busy for quite some time 8)!
Tonya Small 