[day 84] Love & Learn

Thats the lesson for today. Anyway. Today was a weird crazy day. I cant even explain how odd it was, because to anyone else it would seem somewhat normal, but it wasnt. Im not sure if anyone knows but this is my one year date for joining curves! I was so excited! From last year to this year ive lost 9.50 inches throughout my body and 10 pounds. What a goal! I was so excited to hear that and to see that i wasnt at a gain, but a loss when my one year came. I didnt get to workout because im being tutored in algebra i thought that i was suppose to be there at 6, but it was really 5 and i planned to workout at 5:30, so i didnt get to go=( I had went earlier today and got weighed and measured…i should of just stayed and worked out but oh well.

Anyway. Im not sure if everyone knows but i am enrolled in a program with my states Workforce program. This program i have been working with this one lady named Ericka and she really cares about the students that she casemanagers over. Ive started signing up the program since last year around february for the fall of 2005. Since then we have had a really strong relationship and as a case manager she has inspired me to finish school and has given me the confidence that i can actually go. That i would get finicial help as long as i made the grades. I was one of the OLDEST more mature students that she has worked with because this program is usually for students still in highschool or right out of highschool. From 18-21 is the age limit. I was right on the age line of not being able to go through the youth program but since i signed up when i did, then i was able too. Anyway, so im calling my case manager today to talk to her about my tutoring she got the workforce to pay for and all day i was getting the run around that she wasnt in the office. I was really needing to talk to her to find out what time i needed to show up. i wanted to talk to her about the Honor Society that i got into, and she was really proud that i got accepted because of my GPA. Anyway. so i find out almost at the end of the day that she got TERMINATED!! I was so entirely pissed. She was one of the only people there that actually CARED about her students and would go out of her way, OUTSIDE of work to help us. She genuinly cared. Now they are bringing all of these "new" people in, that are just worried about the numbers. All they are worried about is how many students they can get enrolled and grades. Not about how a student is feeling in there classes, or what they need help with. Im so enraged.

I was even more mad at myself because i couldnt find Erickas cell phone number. I wanted to see what the problem was. So. Finally at around 9:00pm i find her number and call her up. She called me back a little while later and told me they they LAID HER OFF because they said they didnt have the funding to pay her anymore. Which is bullshit because they are hiring more people to take her place. She worked at 2 locations. She had at least 25-30 students. AT LEAST. I think its ridiculous for the workforce to be so selfish and uncaring to even terminate her before semester was over. The least they could of done was wait until may. 1 month. thats it. To give us time enough to get acquanted with someone else that would know about our personal schooling and stuff. You can just throw a stranger in, at the end of semester and expect them to understand.

So yeah. Thats my rant for today. Im really upset about it. I enjoyed talking to her about school, and her just being my friend and helping me. Im PISSED that workforce could even be so SELFISH to do something like this to all of us. Its just damn ridiculous…..

Live, Love & Learn

-Court