Mar. 2. 07… Mohau

I got a chance to be the only social worker for half of the day today. For various reasons each of the social workers were gone for the last half of the day, so I was the go to gal. Let’s just say I was totally in my element. I LOVE BEING A SOCIAL WORKER! I had a woman from the community come in ready to hand over her 2 mos. old boy and her 2 year old daughter because she couldn’t stand to watch them die anymore. She is by far the best mother I have seen thus far with only being 22 years old. Her boyfriend (father of the children) lives with his mother who takes all of his earnings, so that he can not give them to her to support the children. She is unable to work due to caring for the children and feels like she is in such a tough spot. To come to the agency she had to borrow clothes from the neighbor for her children. Ugh, we talked for quite sometime about how to get on welfare as well as how Mohau can help her out with clothes and food parcels. She was truly incredible and is doing this all with no support from family (due to them not being alive) or friends. Her only support network is her neighbor, but she feels guilty always asking them to care for the children while she goes and fetches water or goes to various agencies for assistance. My other joy was when all the children got home from school and came running to me, Momma, Momma, Momma…they all brought home their various subject books from school. As their caregiver I had to go through about 5 books for each child seeing the notes the teacher had written and the progress they had made from the last quarter and sign off that we went through it together. I was thrilled to do this I had so much joy going through the books with each of the children and telling them what a great job they are doing and how proud I am of them. I was angry with one of the teachers due to her selection in vocabulary words. For 9 years olds she chose the word stab and then the children had to come up with a sentence. They were horrible sentences like, The man stabbed the woman. I wrote her a comment saying, interesting choice in vocab selection with regard to the word stab. Oh I was furious, maybe my teachers had me learn such words as well but I can’t remember, so mom you will have to let me know.