we rode in and got to school at around 7:04am. i say around because with all the stops on the bus route, it could've been later, but that's the time the website said we would get there. shalon brought us dunkin donuts for breakfast. and there is literally a dunkin donuts on every corner of boston, but it was super nice to just be able to run out the door instead of being like, ok well i have to wake up to make oatmeal and wash the pot and wash the bowl i eat out of and the spoon.
school is crazy. its organized in pods but as of right now i have no clear system for navigating the pods. i feel like we are walking through a caterpillar's body or something. also some of the doors are push and some are pull and most of the ones that are pull i ran into and the push ones i tried to pull. go figure. we got to spend an hour with our classroom today.
the fifth grade is ridiculous. my entire class is mostly boys, a few girls -- all african american and then one little redheaded white boy. its weird to me because i'd never seen that dynamic before. in all the schools i went to it was the other way around. all white kids, a few black/brown kids. my class is out of control. they yell a lot and like to threaten each other with death. but i learned 3 names today, so that was good. benjamin talks a lot and his handwriting is very big for the 5th grade. daikari (i think thats how you spell it) is apparently usually really bad until someone comes to watch him (that's where i come in). and charles just needs encouragement. so i made some progress. after school we went into the community and it was pretty excellent. we just walked around and went to the Y and a neighborhood organization called project right! and then we went to lunch. after lunch to the neighborhood library.
but the most exciting part of today was that i finally made it to the DTA (department of transitional assistance) on mass ave. and i qualified for food stamps, which is amazing because i didn't have four paystubs or anything and i had to print my bank info from online. and not only that but even though we went 18 minutes before they closed, bradley and i still managed to get the food stamps debit cards and emergency assistance -- so my the money on my the EBT (food stamps debit) kicks in on saturday. its such a huge burden lifted off my shoulders.
first day at school
upromise. pinkies up.
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yo pam
don't conform to some dunkin donuts nonsense
oatmeal is the true food of life
Pamcake...you qualify for food stamps. I know we talked about this before, but I'm still trying to wrap my mind around it. Should I be proud, or worried?
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