Anger

Tuesday July, 31st was the most hectic day at Escuela Especial! Jenna and I were assigned to work at Senora Yahoska's class again. Everything was normal except Senora Yahoska wasn't there! Senora Yahoska was at a doctors appointment with her kids. Therefore, Jenna and I were the temporary teachers for the day. With absolutely no warning whatsoever Jenna and I had to create a lesson plan for the school day on the spot. There was so much going on we were missing Conchita for 20 minutes and didn't even know it! Turns out she was walking around making friends with everyone as always. At one point in this hectic day it was really quiet. Although this quiet silence only lasted about five minutes. In this five minutes I got to do some one on one with Ramon. As it turns out he is one of the smartest in the class! At first I thought he was very clueless and didn't really know what was going on in class, but I found out it is because he has such bad vision he can't see what is going on in the front of the class. The bad part is the only way he can progress in school is if he has some one on one which is not offered at Escuela Especial because they don't have the staff members or the money.

That is not the reason why anger is flowing through my veins right now. It's because today I got to go on some home visits. There was a point where I could honestly not believe my eyes. What I was witnessing right there in person felt like I was watching  a documentary on children in third world countries. At the last house I saw the most heart crushing thing in my life. Julissa is a 22 year old woman  with Cerebral Palsy, (CP). When we walked into the house the size of a normal size American bedroom it had 10 foot tall piles of trash all around it. Once we got a good look at the house we asked if we could see Julissa. The father in law in spotless white pants and nice shirt agreed to unlocked the dark closet where Julissa was laying playing with a plastic bag that her father in law gave her! Yes you read this right. The father in law wearing spotless white pants and nice shirt, locks his daughter in law(who has CP) in a dark closet with nothing to do except play with a plastic bag! Then when I thought things couldn't get any worse, she has a seizure right in front of us! While she is having this seizure her father in law totally ignores it! He acts like it is a totally normal thing. Then Julissa's mother and brother got home also wearing spotless nice clothes and stood right in front of the closet door where Julissa was laying. It seems the mother was trying to say to us,"Don't look at Julissa, look at us." Also, the whole family is healthy except for Julissa who rarely gets fed and is suffering from malnutrition. In my perspective it seems as if they think everyone in the family is a priority and she is a problem which is not even the slightest bit ok. These parents are doing the complete minimum of keeping Julissa alive. The father in law even had a nice taxi out front that looked like it hadn't been used in a long time.

Hopefully Wednesday won't be as heartbreaking.