Measuring Acorns

Here I am with Scentia and Sue. You can see how much taller I am than both of them. They told me a funny proverb one day as we were walking to lunch. We were trying to figure out how to convert feet and inches into meters and centimeters to compare our heights and determine which of them was taller (or shorter) than the other. The proverb, roughly translated, says "Don't bother measuring acorns." The idea is that it's kind of silly to make minute distinctions between two things (or, in this case, people) that are already so small.

After that day, I started calling these two ladies my "little acorns" and they loved it.

In her good-bye letter Scentia wrote, "the first day you came into our class....you looked very comfortable, stable and peaceful. Your mood made us elicit our ideas or our feeling so easily on writing assignments. Sometimes we got too much (sic) stressful things in this course, but every time you stood calmly among us. You are like a sponge which can absorb anything....Sometimes you were a big sister or like a mom. "

I have mixed feelings about being compared to a sponge, but I appreciate her sentiments.