my job's interesting.......
at any given moment, there's at least one kid freaking out in the hallway. right now, somebody is screaming and yelling and kicking and punching and being restrained by 3 grown men.
it's amazing how long kids can scream and yell. one day last week, a 6-year old kept it up for over 3 hours. it's hard to concentrate on work in an environment like this.
some people tell me that they have learned to tune it out. not only have i not learned to tune it out, i don't want to learn to tune it out. if i want to tune out somebody else's pain, i'll just move to new york city and walk around the dead body lying in the middle of the sidewalk.
in between kids screaming all the time, we have routine lock-down drills and fire drills, not to mention routine some- kid-pulled-the-fire-alarm.
it can be very noisy in here.
as distracting and nerve-wracking as all this commotion is, i wouldn't have it any other way. because it's life. it's life in its rawest, most screwed up way. which is the only thing that most of these kids know.
and if i'm going to help them, i need to know it, too.
