Follow Up
I cannot really tell you much of a follow up from my last post about the student who was possibly being abused by their parent(s). Except that the father came to the school the next morning and asked the vice-principal how he should punish the kid for telling these horrible lies about their parents. Well the v-principal said the right thing about just sitting down and talking about it in a very serious way. My field instructor kind of half serious/half jokingly was like she should've have said, "Sir that would be a good thing to talk about with the caseworker that comes to your house later today to investigate." The student did make a point to wave to me today from the hallway of course after this incident. I did get a little time with the student when we went back to the room while everything was going on. I found out the student likes to draw, watch cartoons, and loves puzzles. The student is a very smart kindergartner!
Today at the school nothing quit that exciting happened. I did a lot of busy work, mainly to keep me busy! I am still deciding on how I exactly feel about my placement and what I am going to get out of it. I mean yes it is good and I will learn a lot but I don't know if it is what I was expecting. And with talking to some of my fellow social work students/friends they are doing a whole lot more than I am and a lot more traing and more real hard core social work stuff. But then again I am in elementary school, but the neighborhood is a bit scary or suspicious. Especially when you find out that last Saturday night there was a report to the police that there were gun shots being heard on the same block and someone actually saw blood too. It makes me really wonder, concerned and amazed at how some of these kids' home lives must be like, crazy, unstable, whatever. . . I am trying to take care of myself and not bring a lot of stuff home with me or outside of work or whatever, but its hard! I don't know I still feel like I am not being that productive or used to my full potential yet at the school. We'll see though. . .
What else. . . I am living this year in a duplex with two other guys that I have known but not known to well. Its kind of hard for me for a lot of reasons; they are a lot older than me, their personalties and mine are very different, we all have our own unique ways of living and how things should be done, etc. . . But when I am here I stay in my room a lot with the door closed. I watch Spanish telenovelas I will admit that and am quit fond of them. I know what some poeple say about how they are trash, you only watch it for the women, etc. I think part of it is the mainstream white culture's own biases and stereotypes with Hispanics and that sort of thing to an extent. Plus, I don't watch it just for the beautiful women, even though it helps, I watch them for the Spanish and I actually like to follow the stories and get wrapped up in them. I don't understand why people make a big deal of it because everyone has their channel or show that they watch and don't like to miss episodes either. So, its the same thing is it not? Okay that was a random tangent, but the roomate situation its awkward for me sometimes, and because I am on the main floor right by the living room they always use my bathroom. And sometimes I am like I don't like that. And this newspaper route thing where they go and deliver the paper extras every week for money and breaks on our cable bills and such is great, but I don't have time to do it and really don't want to do it at the same time. I guess when it comes down to it my living style and how I was raised is probably a lot different. I am working through these issues though, believe me. Don't tell my roomates about this if you know who they are, but if they read this then thats that, its all good!
Okay, I need to go to bed.
Till next time I blog. . .
Today at the school nothing quit that exciting happened. I did a lot of busy work, mainly to keep me busy! I am still deciding on how I exactly feel about my placement and what I am going to get out of it. I mean yes it is good and I will learn a lot but I don't know if it is what I was expecting. And with talking to some of my fellow social work students/friends they are doing a whole lot more than I am and a lot more traing and more real hard core social work stuff. But then again I am in elementary school, but the neighborhood is a bit scary or suspicious. Especially when you find out that last Saturday night there was a report to the police that there were gun shots being heard on the same block and someone actually saw blood too. It makes me really wonder, concerned and amazed at how some of these kids' home lives must be like, crazy, unstable, whatever. . . I am trying to take care of myself and not bring a lot of stuff home with me or outside of work or whatever, but its hard! I don't know I still feel like I am not being that productive or used to my full potential yet at the school. We'll see though. . .
What else. . . I am living this year in a duplex with two other guys that I have known but not known to well. Its kind of hard for me for a lot of reasons; they are a lot older than me, their personalties and mine are very different, we all have our own unique ways of living and how things should be done, etc. . . But when I am here I stay in my room a lot with the door closed. I watch Spanish telenovelas I will admit that and am quit fond of them. I know what some poeple say about how they are trash, you only watch it for the women, etc. I think part of it is the mainstream white culture's own biases and stereotypes with Hispanics and that sort of thing to an extent. Plus, I don't watch it just for the beautiful women, even though it helps, I watch them for the Spanish and I actually like to follow the stories and get wrapped up in them. I don't understand why people make a big deal of it because everyone has their channel or show that they watch and don't like to miss episodes either. So, its the same thing is it not? Okay that was a random tangent, but the roomate situation its awkward for me sometimes, and because I am on the main floor right by the living room they always use my bathroom. And sometimes I am like I don't like that. And this newspaper route thing where they go and deliver the paper extras every week for money and breaks on our cable bills and such is great, but I don't have time to do it and really don't want to do it at the same time. I guess when it comes down to it my living style and how I was raised is probably a lot different. I am working through these issues though, believe me. Don't tell my roomates about this if you know who they are, but if they read this then thats that, its all good!
Okay, I need to go to bed.
Till next time I blog. . .
2 comments:
Ah don't listen to anybody about the telenovelas. We know why we watch them. And yes... the beautiful women is part of it! ... at least for me anyway.
But its the single easiest (and in some cases best) way to keep up with your Spanish when you don't have a class or conversation partner. On top of that, the entertainment value is much higher than most of the crap on primetime on FOX, NBC, CBS, or ABC (with certain exceptions).
You're getting a lot of spammers posting comments on your blog. I started deleting the ones that show up on mine, and that seems to work.
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