I can't get enough of the song "Fame" by Citizen Cope.
I dare you to listen to it.
The peace did not last. We were at a meeting until at least 11pm
with the girls and the liaison. They talked to her alone for an hour
and actually worked up some tears about how hard their life here
is.
When it came our turn to talk it's amazing how different the stories
were, and how long it took for their attitudes to come out with the
truth.
The truth being that there are consequences to your actions, part
of almost being an adult is starting to face them.
We have no real way of making sure that this really gets heard so
we asked that incident report be filled out and that the information
gets to their parents.
The liaison actually told them that they were "shitting on us, and
treating us like we were a hotel".
There's no victory here. It's nice to know I'm not crazy, that this
is really what was going on, and that these were their actual feelings.
It was also nice to hear what they were trying to say to other people
about how mean we are.
The house is on lockdown until they chose to try to interact with us.
And I just got an email from one of the girls father. You know the
kind where they say, "Let us tell you our position on things"