2nd week of work

So this week of work went extremely fast and I'm really starting to enjoy it!! I interact with the kids mainly .. but I also do things such as answer the phones, read over the kids case notes, fill out paperwork, etc. Next week my boss told me that I'll actually be able to start writing some of the kids case notes.. which basically means that I'm treated like a staff member, so i'm really excited about that. One of the kids there I am starting to get really attached to, his name is ben and he's 19 and he's pretty much the only normal one there (and by normal I mean he doesn't get stoned out of his mind every day and night, doesn't shoot heroine or snort coke, and doesn't rob stores or mug people.) He beat me at connect four 11 times in a row, no joke. I honestly could not figure out what he was doing either. Crazy! But anyways, on Tuesday night me and my two roommates went out for 5 dollar steak and potatoes at a place right down the street from my work, and we ended up running into him. He asked us if he could charge his phone by us because that is where the outlet was, and so he ended up sitting down and drinking with us before we got our meal. I was extremely paranoid the next day that I was going to get in trouble at work because I'm not supposed to be hanging out with clients. Oops. Anyways, yesterday (thursday) my roommate and I went to the library after work (which is also down the street from my work) and we ended up running into ben again. He was telling us his plans for the night and apparently he was going to the same place that we were going to go. Anyways, so we went out and ended up running into him at the bar. I talked to him for a bit but then tried to stay away because I didn't want to run into any problems with that at work! I can't wait to see him on Monday though, he's pretty much the only one that I can hold a decent conversation with there.

So today (friday) Dana woke me up at 10:00 because she wanted to get up early and go shopping! Well, we all know how pleasant and fun I am in the mornings after a night of drinking. So, we didn't end up leaving until about 12. But anyways, we went into china town and got some chinese food at this chinese food court ( i've never seen so many asians in one place in my life). Then we went souvenir shopping and I ended up dropping 300 dollars on souvenirs for people .. uggghh.. but it was actually quite fun picking things out!

"I'm sorry, you can't eat that here."

After doing some shopping, Danielle and I decided that we were hungry and we wanted to get some pizza hut bread sticks. So, we walk in and go up to the counter to order. Before we told her what we wanted she asked "for here, or takeaway?" and we of course said, "for here." So we order breadsticks and the lady tells us "i'm sorry you can't eat breadsticks in here, you have to get takeaway" (the place was nearly empty) . So we were order takeaway and sit on a bench right outside of the restaurant but before you go outside. After about 20 minutes (does it really take that long to make 5 breadsticks) they called our order. So we got our breadsticks and go back to our bench to eat them because the only other place we would be able to eat them is outside as we walk on a crowded sidewalk. As we are eating, the lady at the counter comes up to us and says "i'm sorry, you can't eat that here." REALLY?! We just bought your food and you are kicking us out of your restaurant?

Moral of the story = customer service here... SUCKS.

Anyways, the rest of the day we ended up shopping a bit more and then coming home. I'm staying in tonight with Danielle because I am EXHAUSTED and I want to be feeling great tomorrow because I think we are going to the beach. But thats all for now.

This was a really long post. Sorry.