Just another school day..

A kid in my class (I'll call him Frank for privacy reasons) is one that isn't liked by most of the staff at my school and most kids find him annoying. I took it upon myself to really get to know him because it made me sad that no one ever reached out because he is quite annoying. Today I was working with him in the hall, as I regularly do, and I usually spend a lot of that time talking to him about his life, feelings, ect. So today he was telling me how he doesn't like one of our staff and why and then he looked at me and said "Miss Chelsea, you're the only one who ever listens to me." My heart totally melted because that is why I am there and why I would ever want to be there. He expressed to me how much he hates it when I'm not there. That made me sad because I know all the kids in my class don't like it when I'm gone and most of them are quite attached to me and I'm moving. I'm announcing it to them tomorrow since we already had a party planned. I have a feeling it might be a rough day due to that. =/ But I also know that when we leave something, that spot always gets filled one way or another, life goes on, and I can't solve these kids' problems no matter how much their stories break my heart.
I will probably cry saying bye to them.

We took 2 of our kids to the library today and I hung with 1 of them and we ended up looking at a wedding ring book in the jewelry section for 45 minutes!! Can you believe that? What nerds. It had 500 different rings and they were far from typical which is why I think it sucked us in so much. To make it even greater the student is a boy. =D

The girl in my class every week tells me that I wear too many skirts. I think its funny because she is the farthest from "girl" there is. This week she said "Miss chelsea you only wear pants on fridays, all the rest are skirts. Whats up with that?" And she had a smirk/disgusted face on. Ha ha.. but it is true I wear skirts 4 days a week.

Enough about school. I was tired today. Very tired. I came home and made coffee, that I am currently drinking. I have only had 2 cups of coffee the whole month of august and they have been in the morning. Crazy huh? I thought it would be good of me to keep it as a last resort or treat. I think I'm doing ok. And I can probably blame the headaches I had every day last week on them.

I must rant about something that I feel is a valid reason to be upset. The school I work at is a mental hospital so never are we just teaching. We might as well say that we are babysitting too and my director is very good about letting staff know that prior to hire. I cannot tell you how often I hear staff speaking horribly about students to each other on campus. It is extremely upsetting to me. Secondly I find it very un-tactful (if thats a word) for staff to talk negatively about other people to another staff in front of students. I have been the other end of that numerous times where it's staff complaining about past people to me in front of kids. I wonder if they think the kids aren't listening or are stupid but from my experience kids not only hear everything but they are also far from stupid! Okay.. this is the last rant I have and it's about personal preferences. They suck! Personal preferences such and its only human nature for us all to have them. I took an Intro to Discipleship Training class that went over how much our own personal preferences affect everything in our lives and from that time I tried to make a point to pay more attention to my own. Well staff I work with will harp on the kids because of their own personal preferences. It saddens me because the kids already have too much going on in them that they can't understand so for an adult to come along and say "hey that bugs me personally" in whatever form or fashion really sucks. I see it almost every school day. There have been times where I have taken a student on a walk to process that stuff out because they think they did something wrong when they didn't. I just feel like some staff want the kids to be puppets and they never will be.
ugh. there's my rant. excuse me if I offend anyone.

Well I must be off now to finalize the yearbook and play some volleyball!