Rachel Hampton

I’m not a liar! May 4, 2010

The above is just to clarify in case you’ve been wondering.  I know I told you two posts ago that I was going to talk about my job, but funny taxi driver was a story that just had to be shared! Now I will get down to business (ahem).

*pause to collect myself*

I’m sorry, I cannot take myself seriously right now. It is after 4pm, I’m in the home-stretch before the end of the work day, and I’m feeling a little random. Not like that’s a big shock to most of you, I know. Hush.

Focus Rachel. Ok.

My job. I am working for Monsoon, a communications office under Wycliffe International. The amazing people I work with have backgrounds in communications-related fields and focus mostly in consulting work for partners in the Asia-Pacific area. That cleared it right up, huh?

I am the electronic media specialist. This has meant a lot of research and thinking the past few months. Good thing I have that college degree under my belt! There hasn’t been a full-time staff person who has that background, so we’ve been trying to figure out how to best use my skills to help the need for translation throughout the area. I’m in recent contact with two partners and we hope to use local radio stations in their countries to not only promote their work, but get the Word of God onto the airwaves. I hope to continue working with our other partners to take advantage of the great resource that comes through radio.

In the meantime, I’m getting Monsoon set up with a social media strategy. Wow, there is a lot to consider that I never realized when you’re looking at social media. And it is blowing up in popularity. If you want to be on the cutting-age of communication, it’s important to recognize the role social media plays.

So hopefully that makes my job description a little more clear to you. It’s fun and I’m loving using my major to help with the Bible translation need!

Interesting facts about the past few weeks:

• I was able to use my own funding to get LASIK eye surgery. It’s a freaky procedure, but I’m very happy with the results. The first few days it felt WRONG to be going to bed with great vision. Poll: Should I put the DVD of my surgery on YouTube?
• I’ve killed three more cockroaches. I’m so ruthless I haven’t seen any in over a week. I guess I showed them who is boss. It’s ok for bosses to shriek and whine when they’re trying to discard cockroach bodies, right?
• Kelly Clarkson in Manila. Let me just say the opportunity to go to her concert was not passed upon. She was amazing!
• I epic-ly failed at ordering meat properly at the grocery store. I wanted a pound of ground beef. They don’t give it to you in pounds, they do kilos. My friend told me the conversion was 1 to 2.2. I didn’t ask which was which but instead ordered 5 kilos of meat. Wrong. Not that anyone would be foolish enough to make that same mistake but just in case; learn from me please. Save yourself the embarrassment.

That about does it. Next post in less than a month. Guaranteed. Anyone want to bet against me? If you lose, you send me a case of Dr. Pepper. Someone please bet against me. Anyone? Bueller…Bueller….