day 35 or something...

I have a lot of things on my mind right now. Usually, as you have seen, I try to at compose sentences and paragraphs. Right now, however, the ideas swimming around in my head won't stay still long enough for me to capture them that way. I'm settling for bullet points instead.


-The big nine person family staying with us whom I have truly grown to love left yesterday...but under good circumstances. They are renting a home about 30 miles from El Paso! One of their kids whom I have been tutoring has his final math test (summer school) that determines whether he passes the 8th grade or not today. I think he should have completed it by now. I know he has the ability to pass it, especially after our studying. I just hope he was able to whip out those same skills on the test.

-Plans are moving forward with the memorial procession. There was an organizational meeting last night with Ruben (director), myself, a few community members, and an intern from Las Americas. We submitted the application for the placita where the mass will be happening, and are submitting the application for the procession today. It kind of freaks me out. A lot. But that's life, right?

-Yesterday I went to see the movie 9500 Liberty, which is a documentary of the controversy over immigration in Manassas (prince william county) virginia that began a few years ago. If you haven't seen it, i strongly suggest you do...especially if you have any interest in what's currently going on in Arizona.

The face of the house is really changing. Hardly any of the guests currently in the house were here when i first arrived. Some guests leave on good terms, like the family that just left. Some guests leave on good terms with bad outcomes--recently former guests have been picked up by the migra. Other guests are asked ot leave for breaking house rules. It's strange to think that the house will keep running once I leave in August. Wonderful, but strange. THe house itself is over 100 years old.

It's cliche, but oh, if these walls could talk!