I miss HLE
In high school I said that I'd never work at the Holy Land Experience. Never. I spent too many nights listening to the stories of all my friends who worked there, and it didn't sound like a very fun place to work. As the story goes, I was desperate for a job so like a week before my 18th birthday my senior year, I did indeed become an employee of HLE. And then five months ago, in November I decided to not be an HLE employee anymore. It was a good decision, I know that God wanted me to move on. But the last couple days I have been reminiscing about those days.
I really did love the people I worked with. There were some...interesting experiences. Sad days, the inevitable "I don't want to go to work" days, busy as all get out days, deader than dead days, donut making days, dancing on the front line when the line was finally gone days(I miss Becky), "I feel like I live here" days, and soo soo much more.
I guess I've been thinking about it because at my new job I don't feel that same community. The group already has that togetherness and I just feel like the (young) odd one out. And then with the Flyers night on Monday that I couldn't go to...it just had me thinking about those days when Robert, and Leon, and Patrick were there. And I realized that even on the busy days when we just wanted to throw ketchup at the guests (literally), we could all still laugh and have fun together. This new job is lonely.
So anyways, to all my old HLE peeps...I miss ya! And we definitely need to do some more Flyers nights,etc.
I really did love the people I worked with. There were some...interesting experiences. Sad days, the inevitable "I don't want to go to work" days, busy as all get out days, deader than dead days, donut making days, dancing on the front line when the line was finally gone days(I miss Becky), "I feel like I live here" days, and soo soo much more.
I guess I've been thinking about it because at my new job I don't feel that same community. The group already has that togetherness and I just feel like the (young) odd one out. And then with the Flyers night on Monday that I couldn't go to...it just had me thinking about those days when Robert, and Leon, and Patrick were there. And I realized that even on the busy days when we just wanted to throw ketchup at the guests (literally), we could all still laugh and have fun together. This new job is lonely.
So anyways, to all my old HLE peeps...I miss ya! And we definitely need to do some more Flyers nights,etc.