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Regenbogen:

--- Quote from: Dina on June 24, 2024, 06:32:23 PM ---I can see the problem in training two interns at the same time. It seem you were lucky.
It's the first intern happy  with the change? I assume as you usually had one intern that intern2 won't be overwhelmed having to be the only one.

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Don't know if she is happy. The change was planned. They all go through the different departments. They need to get experience in all subjects, so they stay for 4-5 weeks in each department. Those are the ones who train to become lab technicians. I introduced number 1 to her new department on Friday. She's a bit shy.

Maybe we'll get another intern who was in another department before. The chemistry lab also had one. I guess I'll see on Monday.  This week, I don't go to work. I have two days off because I worked the weekend and I took the rest of the week off, because I need to organise and prepare stuff for Mini's confirmation.

Dina:
Already the confirmation? She is so big! I never did it myself.

And about the intern, oh well, if everyone know they have to rotate for all the departments, I guess it is fine.

Regenbogen:
Yes, she is almost 14 now. I don't know if I already told you, but my kids and my husband are evangelical Lutherans, while I am a Catholic. We decided that because I have a rather lose connection with the church and always hung out more with the protestant crowd so to speak, lol.
Also as a child I didn't understand the differences, because the whole wide family has always been mixed confessions, but all Christians. So it wasn't important to me, but it was important to my husband that his children would not be Catholic, so here we are.

We also had a protestant wedding but only because at first we wanted to be wed by two priests of each confession and the Catholic priest didn't want the protestant one in his church and he didn't want to be second in the protestant church himself. So I said, OK, forget it, we won't need you, just the other priest will do. Then he threatened me that I would be excluded from the holy sacraments if I went through with the wrong priest and I told him that he could keep his sacraments ... well yeah. I guess even priests are just human, and this one was ... Well, you know.
After a few years we moved anyway and there is another Catholic priest, who is more modern in his views.

And I know now that some Catholic priests do Last Rites for the dying ones even if they left the church completely like my father did. And I looked it up: Last Rites are a sacrament. I call bullshit on the weird priest.

Ok so that's the story of why the kids are not Catholic like me. 

Dina:
I am very confused now because I assumed Mini was having the Catholic confirmation. I had not idea there was protestants have a confirmation too! (I do not know many Lutheran Protestants though. I knew evangelist, adventists but never went too deep into the differences with us.
I am a catholic too and I also have a lot of trouble with the Church because I did not actually marry the man I call hubby. He was raised a catholic (confirmed and all) but he is agnostic now. And, funny enough, I was not confirmed for several reasons.

Regenbogen:
Maybe it's called different in English and Spanish.
We have two different words for it: catholic: Firmung (usually around the age of 16) and protestant: Konfirmation (usually around the age of 14).
The Catholic first Holy communion takes place around the age of 8 or 9. Usually in third grade of elementary school.
Protestant Konfirmation is the only ceremony there is for older kids.

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