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Good news! My son aced his test to get his learner's permit, so now he is legal in this state to learn to drive. That means, of course, that I'll have to take him out driving now, but it's one step closer for him to independence.
He has been making progress in the area of learning to cope with life in America (after growing up in Pakistan), thanks to the office manager at work who is overseeing his internship there. She's just the right person to be looking after him -- she knows how to tell him the same things we have been, only he listens because it's not Mom and Dad griping, hehe! I also think he's just plain getting more mature as he goes along and that could make all the difference -- he may be 21 in age, but he doesn't feel like he's 21. But he's growing in confidence and actually starting to think he might be able to find a job out in the cold cruel world after all. ;-)
He's discovered some things he is good at during this internship that he never thought he could do, which is encouraging. His first paying job ever is finished, now that it is too cool to mow the office lawn, but there may be another waiting for him when the snow comes. In the meantime, he is thinking about a short-term job for the experience of working and also trying to get some things he has been writing down into a form that is publishable -- even if it is just in a short story magazine. He's a good writer, and I think he can go places with it. He'll be going back to school eventually, but not until he is able to be more on his own than he has been up until now. Once we are certain he is settled and coping, we'll start making plans for a return overseas -- to Pakistan, hopefully, but we'll see what things are like there in a few years. ;-)
It may seem like a little thing, but when I look at where he was a year ago, I am pretty excited to see the change in him. By God's grace, we'll see even more changes for the good in the coming year.
He has been making progress in the area of learning to cope with life in America (after growing up in Pakistan), thanks to the office manager at work who is overseeing his internship there. She's just the right person to be looking after him -- she knows how to tell him the same things we have been, only he listens because it's not Mom and Dad griping, hehe! I also think he's just plain getting more mature as he goes along and that could make all the difference -- he may be 21 in age, but he doesn't feel like he's 21. But he's growing in confidence and actually starting to think he might be able to find a job out in the cold cruel world after all. ;-)
He's discovered some things he is good at during this internship that he never thought he could do, which is encouraging. His first paying job ever is finished, now that it is too cool to mow the office lawn, but there may be another waiting for him when the snow comes. In the meantime, he is thinking about a short-term job for the experience of working and also trying to get some things he has been writing down into a form that is publishable -- even if it is just in a short story magazine. He's a good writer, and I think he can go places with it. He'll be going back to school eventually, but not until he is able to be more on his own than he has been up until now. Once we are certain he is settled and coping, we'll start making plans for a return overseas -- to Pakistan, hopefully, but we'll see what things are like there in a few years. ;-)
It may seem like a little thing, but when I look at where he was a year ago, I am pretty excited to see the change in him. By God's grace, we'll see even more changes for the good in the coming year.
