Friday Fun With Friends - Season 1 - Episode 1 - Conversation with Logan

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:03):
So this is this is Chris. I'm a senior only
Friends school and in me interviewing Logan.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Yep, this is Logan. I am a maintenance and custodian man.
Uh here at Only.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
So Logan, would you I would like to ask you
about how would tease you go to Olney?

Speaker 2 (00:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 3 (00:25):
So, I uh found out about only because my girlfriend
is friends with Hannah here and the house that I
currently live in and bought. The people that lived and
built it actually graduated from one I believe back in
the fifties. Sometimes they're like alumni. So yeah, I heard

(00:47):
about it through them the grape vine.

Speaker 4 (00:49):
You would say, so, how long have you been here
so far? Oh gosh, I want.

Speaker 3 (00:57):
To say it was around November maybe a little bit before.
I'd say, like about three or four months tops.

Speaker 5 (01:04):
Yeah, I've been I've been here about three point three
and a half years, and coming from Uganda, there's.

Speaker 4 (01:16):
Like a whole shift in like doing school in America
and a new community.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
So have you faced like any any like any any
issues like that, or.

Speaker 4 (01:30):
You just I just noticed any differences being it only then?

Speaker 3 (01:34):
Well, I guess it's not only specifically. I guess it's
just the County that only is in like Belmont County.
I have never lived in the country, you know, I've
always lived in cities, so moving to Belmont County was
a big change for me. But I'd say the biggest
comfort out of moving is you know only and how

(01:55):
welcoming it's been.

Speaker 5 (01:56):
So Yeah, So.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
You said you do into only from the Grapevine, So
then ask about what your expectations will.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
Oh, man, I don't know.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
I've worked at a lot of schools, so I imagined it
would be a very buy the book you do this,
you do that kind of atmosphere where you had to
answer to many higher ups and you know you'd have
to go through multiple different people to be able to
figure anything out and get anything done.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
But it's the exact opposite.

Speaker 3 (02:29):
Only everybody's very community driven and everybody's more than welcome
to work together.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
So it's a very very good environment to be around.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
So would you say the reality is you talked about
the expectations, so what is the reality for you?

Speaker 3 (02:46):
The reality has just been a great experience and I
hope to be here many more years, So I don't
have any bad things to say about it. I'd say
there's not enough enough of us maintenance men to fix
things around here. But the things that we can fix, uh,
we we do it as fast as possible. But then

(03:08):
everybody's just grateful for all the work that we do here.
So as a maintenance man and a custodian, I never
feel like I'm you know, like like nobody's ever not
thanked me. I always get a thank you, I always
get appreciation. So it's a it's a great experience.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
I mean, that's gonna when when people look at on Moslem,
they'll talk to I have students, the first thing they'll
mention when they think.

Speaker 4 (03:34):
About all these the community.

Speaker 1 (03:36):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, so you really think the community he
has difference than in other places you might have walked in.

Speaker 5 (03:46):
R oh.

Speaker 2 (03:46):
Yeah. I my school, my high school.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
I think I went to school with probably two thousand
kids and there was probably about thirty five kids to
a classroom sometimes, and so you just didn't get one
on one education. You didn't really get it to know anybody.
I maybe knew ten percent of the kids I went
to school with, and that was maybe just a sliver

(04:09):
of the actual reality of how many kids were there.
So you guys, all being in close quarters sometimes might
get on each other's nerves. Yeah, But the fact that
you guys get to know each other and actually know
each other and be in such close quarters, it's something
you guys will appreciate later on down the road.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
So if you to talk to someone who doesn't know
what only is thehverhood of the of the school, what
are the fust things?

Speaker 4 (04:38):
You tell them?

Speaker 2 (04:38):
Ooh, that's a good one.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
I'd probably tell them obviously it's a boarding school. I'd
probably start off with that, and I'd probably say it's
a school of like diversity, it's a school where there's
kids from all around the world teachers too, And I
would try to emphasize how laid back it is. I

(05:03):
don't know, I can't describe how cool it is to
just come into work and not feel stressed. It's so nice.
So I would just explain to him how. I would
just try to explain the community to them as best
as I could. But I don't know if you could
explain only without seeing it firsthand, you know, Yeah, no problem, buddy, anytime.