Completing our lists

We enjoyed a little bit of sleeping in today since we've been keeping a pretty packed pace. Once we were up, however, we began attacking our final lists of "to do" things prior to Witchner leaving. We started out at Staples to buy the required school supplies he needs. How does one stare at the display wall of pens and choose 3 colored pens? The choices are overwhelming even for me, much less Witchner. Next was the drycleaners where we picked up his Kennedy clothes that now look really sharp and pressed. I could tell he was looking forward to wearing the suit and sports coats. Next was CVS to buy vitamins for Marcia. I dropped off a prescription so I was able to show him what an American pharmacy looked like and how that procedure works. We poked around looking at vitamins and discovered tomorrow they go on sale, two for the price of one, so we will go back tomorrow instead. In the meantime we picked up some infants and children's tylenol, some acetaminophen and tums - that was a quick $48. Witchner was surprised at how expensive the over-the-counter meds are. We also had a lesson on store brands being cheaper than name brands.

Once home we opened the mail; he got his first supply of checks from the bank, so we had check-writing lessons.

He spent most of the rest of the afternoon translating some health education materials from Honduras (spanish to kreyol). I didn't realize he spoke spanish so that's a real gift from God. I'll print the training materials and laminate them to bring down for Marcia.

We took down all of the Christmas decorations . Witchner was so surprised to find out that our Christmas tree was not real, and even more surprised to find out how it came apart!

Afterwards we headed to MoshiMoshi (a Japanese restaurant) for dinner. The owner/chef is Korean, so we were treated to some of MamaSan's kimchee, and other delicacies that she makes. We had a grand time with Sam (the owner) and Witchner hitting it off. Kimmy, Sam's wife, showed Witchner how to use "training chopsticks"; he had a tricky time mastering them. Sam told him it was alright to put the bowl to his face and just scoop it into his mouth like other Koreans. Witchner came home with a card that has his name written in Korean; he was pretty fascinated to see another kind of script. He loved the food, especially the Don dish (lots of rice, no surprise there), but wasn't especially fond of wasabi. I think it's probably because he mixed too much of it into his soy sauce.

Tomorrow it will be time to begin packing him up for his move to Pennsylvania. He's going to have to store some of his things here in a plastic bin and he can switch out his winter clothes for spring clothes when he comes back at the end of February.