West Cocoa Chat

We have an upstairs apartment that we originally built for my Mother. When she passed away God provided a way for us to use it as rental space. Our current renters are Phil and Anthony. Phil and Anthony came to us via the AIM (Adventures in Missions) Program. Their particular AIM team did missionary work in Siberia. Their time ended around the time our week of Camp started and that is were we first met. They along with Pat Pugh had a major impact on our youth group.

Phil and Anthony decided to stay with us and continue our College Ministry. In doing so they needed a place to stay and that is how they ended up upstairs. Phil has enrolled at our local Community College and in doing so he must take an entrance test for placement.

So last night after our mid-week service, our beautiful West Cocoa home became a tutoring center for the wonderful world of Algebra. Phil was a bit foggy on operations with “fractional coefficients” and multiplying and dividing polynomials. O.K., how many of you just went, “Ugh!”

Any way, we spent an hour on the couch passing problems back and forth. Then Phil started talking about Russia and how he wished he was taking a test in Russian. Now I said, “Ugh!” The proverbial table began to be reversed as Phil would write a word in Russian and try to get this southern boy to pronounce them, that is, pronounce them correctly. I don’t know why but for some reason I’m craving some “Borsch” right now.

Anybody up for an Algebra story? Several years ago, I took a group of students to see the play, “The Diary of Ann Frank.” In once act of the play, the boy staying with the Franks asks Mr. Frank for help with his “Algebra homework.” Several of my kids leaned over to me and said, “They had Algebra back then Mr. Walker?” I answered, “Yes and just like you, they had problems with it as well!” Some things never change.

Speaking of “change,” I discovered yesterday that those of you on “Theo-Bloggers” are in coveted category. I guess our District Filter doesn’t recognize you as a threat so for the moment I can comment on your blogs from school. Those of us on Blogger, it will have to be as I said yesterday, in the morning or evenings from home.

Thanks for the kind comments in my previous post by the way. Have a good day family.

// posted by cwinwc @ 3:12 AM