Ella Servadio - Blog 2

On my last blog, I talked about how I was looking for a job. I found one! I’m working at Indianola Pecan House. It’s a gift shop type place, but you can also pick up pecans and bring them to the warehouse and we’ll pay you for them. Then the warehouse will crack them and send them to the store, and the people in the kitchen will use them to make different kinds of pecans and other things like pecan pies, fudge, pecan turtle, and many other things. It’s pretty cool. I like the job so far. Right now all I’m really doing is stocking and cleaning. I help customers find things they need also. I haven’t learned how to work the register yet, but I’m ready to learn because I’m tired of only cleaning and stocking. Sitting at the store from 8-5 is kind of boring because we aren’t always busy. So most of the time the manager and I are just sitting here on our phones and talking. Today we had an old man bring us donuts. He was so sweet. He asked me about what my college plans were and when he was walking out he said “You have a blessed day and a blessed life young lady. God will take care of you.” Him saying that made my day, really. It’s people like him who make me love working with the public because there are some people who come in and are just very rude. I also went to lunch with my grandmother so that was fun. The rest of the day went by slow and very boring. I’m loving working, but I miss being with my mom every day. We talk all day and I’ve face-timed her about seven times since I’ve been back in Mississippi. I really do not know how I will be able to go to college and be away from her! She’s coming here this weekend though so that’s good. We get to plan a birthday party for my four year old cousin. She told us she wants a “shimmer and shine” birthday party. I thought she just meant she wanted a lot of glitter, but Shimmer and Shine is a new cartoon apparently. So everything will be genie themed. I think it will be cute honestly. The hard part will be everyone agreeing on what will go where and what the cake will look like. It will be fun though!