I walked out in the heat and paid for parking and made the drive back home, and grabbed my passport put some gas in my car and drove back to the airport. When I got the interns for our company from last summer was still sitting there (it took me about 2hrs to do my running around). I had already expected them to be back in the office so I was quite surprised to see them there. I spoke with them and asked them why they were still there and turns out one of the interns forgot her SS card, and had to have her mom meet her half way. If they were still there I was knew I was in for a long haul. As I sat down texting friends, facebooking, and reading signs around me I noticed the hours of operations was from 6:30 to 2:00PM. I also saw that if you are getting a brand new badge 1:00 PM was the last slot for it. I looked at my phone and saw that it was a few minutes past one, but when I looked at the paperwork I noticed they didn't stamp it till about 1:02 (one thing I've learned about the gov't is that they are very anal about things). Thankfully the man saw me standing in line and knew I had came in before 1:00PM and I was the last new application they took in for the day (YAY). I got called up again to initial some paperwork,and take a brief quiz on airport security got my number and sat down.
One thing my boss told they are notorious for making you wait but thankfully I had Emmanuel to keep me laughing throughout the whole process about school, baby momma drama etc etc. A lady FINALLY came up and took mine and the other interns paperwork which was proceeded by more waiting. In the middle of transferring funds on the phone and texting the lady calls my name. At this point I'm thinking I'm still behind the intern since she's been here so much longer. She looks over my paperwork and tells me to stand in frot of her camera...she and I shared a few laughs because I stepped back so far she couldn't even see me on her screen. Afterwards she told me go wash my hands so I can be fingerprinted....after washing my hands I waited another 10 minutes and the lady called me up to get my finger prints. After they got all my fingers she says "that's all today when you're badge is ready you're company will let you know come back with the same identification you used today". I thank her and walk out to the garage...I'm praying that my car will start ( I thought my alternator was messed up but turns out I need a new starter) and YAY it started...whew what a relief...
I start driving rather absent mindfully not really noticing for traffic. I just had so many questions floating around in my head...thankfully I didn't hit anyone once I got on the freeway I started thinking about how weird is it that I went through all of the things I went through from about 10 am to 2:15 PM trying to get my badge stuff done,and I still got out before the girls who have been there half an hour to an hour before me. Then it occurred to me this is my life story....it's always that way, I'm never where I should be when I want to be but when I need to be,and God always provides a way for me to come out even if someone else may seem to have the home team advantage. Then I realized that God shows us every day how he works in our life in the little things, and that we need to see God in the little things, and appreciate it. All those little things could just add up to the big picture, but if we don't see him for who he is in the small matters we might be disappointed with the latter product.
