The Sisters are proud of their garden which they labored hard bring from a mass of dirt to an inviting stretch of grass and flowers with vegetables to the side. This they would be very quick to show the newly entered postulant. At a point during the day when it is time to eat, the postulant would normally find herself going in a procession to the dining room. Because at all other times outside of recreation the Sisters observe silence, recreation is a time when the walls echo back a good deal of laughter and pleasant conversation. Recreation is not all talk, though, the Sisters do a little sewing or work at some task that doesn't interfere with their being able to participate in the conversation.
Statues dot the convent.
The Monastery is dedicated to Our Lady of Guadalupe, hence it is fitting that the Sisters pass a lovely statue of her several times a day. A statue a lot of postulants like, including our particular postulant friend, is situated in the kitchen. Our postulant might often spot a Novice praying before the novitiate statue of St. John the Evangelist. She might also have been around when the Sisters were getting ready for another postulant to enter. Again, our mythical postulant may have been present when both the Bishop of Sioux Falls, S.D. and the Bishop of Buffalo, N.Y. came to do the ground breaking ceremony for the new wing designed to house the applicants unable to enter at the present for the sheer lack of room.