USA Food Store!

Thursday April 20th – This morning we met briefly with one of the Children’s Mobility instructors, she answered some remaining questions we had about the program. The children’s mobility department has only been in existence for about 5 years. The department has had amazing growth during this time and accounts for about 1/3 of the services that GDV provides. We spent the rest of the morning at a mandatory staff meeting to prepare for “Open Day”. Open day is like an open house for the public. It is a marketing and PR event and not unlike our “Fun Day” at GDB, but geared toward raising public awareness of the facility. All of the departments participate and set up displays and interactive activities. Apparently there will be other vendors there as well. Open day will be on April 30th, so I guess I’ll find out more then. In the afternoon the CEO, Dr. Graeme White, was kind enough to meet with us and explain how all the departments at GDV fit together.

We finished class early today which allowed us time to drive to the USA Foods store! We found out about a week ago that there was a store just outside of Melbourne which carries American foods. During class we have been comparing candy with Laura and Simone and trying to describe American candy. When we found out about the store we decided to go load up and provide an American “cultural” experience for our class mates. It was pretty small but it was definitely American. Basically we got a bunch of really expensive junk food, we even got some Kool-aid as we keep teasing Grant and Ron that the “cordial” that they serve each day at lunch tastes just like Kool-aid.
I headed back to the gym this evening (finally) by myself as Sue had been invited to play with a women’s basketball league who needed a sub for a game. We both had homework to do later in the evening then had a small window of relaxing time.