i cant believe it

you never really know what you have until you take a good look at what other people dont have. our favorite regular woman told us today that she is pregnant again! that would be wonderful news, except for the fact that she is homless, 50 years old, has cancer, and her boyfriend is in Jail. what a life... she is not excited for the new TWINS.. especially because her only son has a mental defect, probably due to her alcoholsim. she has missed a class once, which she later told us was because she needed to go back to the hospital for her kemo. i wish i could help her more than just giving her a creative outlet, although she is having a wonderfl time and keeping me entertained as well. we have been doing more jewelry as well as some painting. we even made our own beads! the next project is to frame some of the pictures we have in our collection and hang them around the very stark, bare room we call home.

france merrick for me?

i went to the last pro development workshop about the france merrick grants.. and i was really inspired. i took alot from the presentation about the tuerk house, especially since i have been there before. i feel nthat i can do the same thing that they have done for the francsican center one day! i still want to try out more sites but i really love the center. they need help and more teachers there for art for more time slots. more supplies and a real art room would be so wonderful! they give all of these other  great classes and i dedicated room for art would make our time really special. all the students are really upset that there wont be classes over the summer, and i feel i owe it to them to come back next semester!  i also think that we should start doig stream of conciousness writing, just like they did at the tuerk house. next class i want to take some good pictures and post them on here to remember the good times with my students. they really are so wonderful and i want to pay them back for all we ahve learned together. i made them cookies since it will be our last class as well=]