second week of work

I can’t believe is already Monday again. Last Monday seemed like forever ago and now all I can think about is the weekend again. Mondays are defiantly the longest days but its also exciting because Tuesday is fieldtrip days so you always know its right around the corner. Today was full of stress both from the kids and other staff members. At the end of the day we all do thins thing called closing which is a serious of songs kind of a mellow and end with lean on me and god bless America. My director who is this really cool guy from Ohio just found out about a death of a close family member yesterday so when we did closing a lot of us got emotional. And in turn the kids were crying and it was just a very emotional day all around. Seeing the kids crying during god bless America made me start to tear up because listing to the lyrics it hit me hard. These kids parents moms dads and sometimes even both are in the service and a lot of them are serving over in Iraq. I can’t imagine what it would be like to know that my father or mother could die from a bomb or land mine and never to come home. Many of the kids call us mommy or daddy to the guys and one time one of the guys asked the little girl who does it the most why she does it so much. And she said, “ It is because one day my daddy went to work and never came home”. It’s just so scary to think about that these give up so much just because their parents choose to do this. When I first came here I thought working with military kids would be easier because they would be better behave and i've talked to a lot of my other staff about it as well and we both thought that originally and now seeing actuality we were completely wrong. They aren’t too bad but they aren’t as well behaved as I thought but I can understand why. Why should they trust us everyone else in their life that they thought they could rely on to be stable aren’t. Constantly moving changing stations and waking up to have their daddy gone for a year would be terrifying. I’m glad I can be here to give them some sort of support and consistency, even though I know ill be living in 2 months I hope I can make an impact on their summer.