exhausted
Everything has just been really weird this week..I'm really glad I got to catch up with a few people I thought had given up on our friendship so that's a plus.
Ele's Place is really frustrating right now...I'm having a really hard time working with some of the kids, just b/c some of them are only there b/c their parents need the support and I really don't think it's fair to use there kids as an excuse...it's definitely easier to see things when you're outside of the situation.
I can't decide if I"m going to do it again next year, I feel like I've made an impact on some of the kids but they're all at this stage where the answer to everything is "good"..truthfully they just like that we're almost the same height haha.
BUT a kid in the middle school group was closing tonight (that means his parents think he's ready to leave Ele's Place b/c he's learned to accept his grief etc.) and he said "Before Ele's Place I felt like I was stuck in a dark cave...but Ele's Place made me see the light". It was so amazing that a 11 year old could even think of that...I want to be able to reach kids like that!
Classes couldn't be any more boring...I actually started looking up classes for the fall just to see if college will get ANY more interesting.
I'm starting to get really worried about my Gramps..Alzheimers seems like it could be setting in and it's the exact same age my great-grandma was when she was diagnosed with it. He's just so unhappy now and it sucks b/c he's the one that always made me laugh and could make light of any situation. I really don't want to worry about the future but I can't help but think that I'm the only one in MI and I'll have no idea what to do if something happens to one of them....all of this thought is probably just b/c of Ele's Place talk.
Everything will be ok since tomorrow night we're gonna beat UofM in basketball!!!!!
Ele's Place is really frustrating right now...I'm having a really hard time working with some of the kids, just b/c some of them are only there b/c their parents need the support and I really don't think it's fair to use there kids as an excuse...it's definitely easier to see things when you're outside of the situation.
I can't decide if I"m going to do it again next year, I feel like I've made an impact on some of the kids but they're all at this stage where the answer to everything is "good"..truthfully they just like that we're almost the same height haha.
BUT a kid in the middle school group was closing tonight (that means his parents think he's ready to leave Ele's Place b/c he's learned to accept his grief etc.) and he said "Before Ele's Place I felt like I was stuck in a dark cave...but Ele's Place made me see the light". It was so amazing that a 11 year old could even think of that...I want to be able to reach kids like that!
Classes couldn't be any more boring...I actually started looking up classes for the fall just to see if college will get ANY more interesting.
I'm starting to get really worried about my Gramps..Alzheimers seems like it could be setting in and it's the exact same age my great-grandma was when she was diagnosed with it. He's just so unhappy now and it sucks b/c he's the one that always made me laugh and could make light of any situation. I really don't want to worry about the future but I can't help but think that I'm the only one in MI and I'll have no idea what to do if something happens to one of them....all of this thought is probably just b/c of Ele's Place talk.
Everything will be ok since tomorrow night we're gonna beat UofM in basketball!!!!!