The Gate December 2017 | Page 12

Staff Spotlight: Pam Bryan Position House Parent What is your favorite home-cooked meal? Spaghetti with meat sauce Describe your role at BGGA? I’m a house parent and I live with my kids so I’m like a surrogate mother. I have a tradition of cooking pasta for my house. What is always stocked in your refrigerator? Butter What’s your favorite part about your job? I realized when I became a house parent that I had lived their lives. I’m trying to advise them on the good and bad decisions because I’ve already been there and done that. I enjoy living in the same house with them because you can get to know them better and bond with them as well. What’s the best piece of advice you have ever received? Learn to be more patient from my mother. Is there anything you are addicted to? Or can’t live without? Coca-Cola What movie do you watch again and again? Baby Boom with Diane Keaton Ferris Bueller’s Day Off What’s one thing we don’t know about you? I move often and have lived all over the U.S. to experience different cities. Favorite sport? University of Alabama football