Tiredly Blogging, by Davis

Hello again,

i am staring at the page experiencing difficulty forming words.

It is actually not that late for college students, but I am still a wee bit tired. I work with High School refugee students through the International Rescue Committee and it seems that once they learn to speak English they learn to have a typical rebellious high schooler attitude. It is quite fun trying to get a good size group to perform a project when they would much rather play on the computers and we cannot make them do anything because the state requires 90% attendance rates to provide the funding that makes the camp possible. It is a fun balancing act.

Try this. Do this. Ok, this may be a little corny but it's actually really fun.
In return- blank stare blank stare blank stare possible nod blank stare

Anyway, I am learning a lot more about my company as I work more and it's pretty cool. It was started by Einstein, who was a pretty smart guy and a refugee. He said there should be in existence a group that helps refugees resettle. He really was pretty smart. He allows for the brain drain that has pushed the US high above other countries. (not sure this is actually a good thing as far as sustainability goes or as far as furthering our global identity goes, but it sure does help the US academic system and also allows us to train refugees to go back to there home country and educate their fellows). I was amazed to find out that in foreign countries only 2 % of IRC workers are expatriates and 98% are native. That is awesome and outstanding.

However this still does not describe exactly what I am doing. Tomorrow I am going on a field trip!!! YAY!! I am going to the airport with 20 kids who speak no to very little English where we are going to attempt to meet an incoming refugee family. Challenging yes. An experience yes. An amazing experience. Yes.

We also just found out that a subcontractor doing work with younger child refugee populations has had some background check problems - no criminals or sex offenders (the biggest worry of people working with child groups) were found to be working so dont get a wrong idea, the wrong background check company was used - and lost almost all of their staff. Therefore, the IRC is going to see if we can go in and contain the problem until the new checks go through. So I can now also put on my job resume description, crisis management. It was a very fun day.

Well I believe that I am about to start writing nonsense if I dont go to sleep.

until our next chat - farewell!