Friday, May. 14, 2004 - 11:10 a.m.

I had the best day at my practicum yesterday :)

The days that its just me and the crazy-girl, my eye actually starts twitching, I kid you not. The second I walk into my apartment it stops and it doesn't begin again until the next time I see her. Coincidence? I don't think so.

Yesterday we had staff meeting, and it was actually fun. They even fired me for the days that Lydwin is going to be here visiting. How cool is that? I was like, "Well, I need my hours" and they just wouldn't even hear of it.

Now that the director and the other Family Service Coordinator are becoming more used to me, they are starting to be open about how they think and feel about the crazy-one. Um, very similiar to me.

So, the other FSC took me with her yesterday. We had so much fun. We even went to the pet store and played with puppies and held birds :D My kinda gal for sure.

Oh yeah, she is fluent in spanish, so she has most of the spanish speaking clients...and we did a home visit, and I actually understood about 1/4 of it. I was shocked to understand any of it!

Then when we got back to the office, I had a client come in to see me, and becuase the crazy-girl was busy, she wasn't able to be there with me, and it was so comfortable and easy! It was my first meeting with her, and she's awsome. I don't know how someone can be a 14-year-old mom, have dealt with being homeless, not know who the father is (actually, I think she just doesn't want to say who it is...I think he's older and therefore would be facing jail time) and still be so well-rounded and courageous. This girl has strengths. I'm going to really enjoy working with her.

I saw a couple that I've been working with also... and she wasn't able to be with me during that meeting either.

I was so pleased!! On the car ride home, she asked me how it went meeting with clients on my own. I said "Oh, it was great!" she looked shocked...and before I could stop myself I blurted out way too much. "It was so much more comfortable than when you were in the room with me. And earlier today I asked Ruby how SHE meets with clients and does intake the first time, and she said she...." blah blah blah and then I was like, "So I tried that, and it went so smoothly!" She was smiling and it looked so forced. YIKES. She was like "That's great. Yeah, she does well with clients. It's good that you were able to spend some time with her today" It was all so forced. Scary. I wonder if I'll go on to regret my words. She's really touchy about Ruby, becuase her clients will request to be Ruby's instead... Arg.

Oh well, soon they will both be full-time co-directors. They will have very different responsibilities. One will do all the paperwork and behind the scenes stuff...while the other will work with clients. I am going to request to work with clients since I've seen nothing but paperwork since I got there pretty much. I think life at Hope Home will get prettier :) I'm hopeful.

Anyways, the best part of yesterday? My eye didn't twitch, not even once! :D

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