We started our project here one week ago and I LOVE IT. It is so much fun hanging out with the kids and I can't believe it is "work." We work pretty great hours too. 9-3:30. Most of the kids come from a traumatic background and we don't learn too much about those stories unless the kids open up to us. But we spent most of last week observing classes and just getting familiar with the kids. They range from about 11 to 18 years-old. Maybe 2/3 boys. Some of them are just so darn adorable, you just want to take them home with you. Most of our interactions with them make you forget that they have very deep issues and act like normal, happy kids. Other times...we are definitely reminded of that. The teachers at DCH are really incredible people and are super welcoming to us. It is going to be so hard leaving the kids at the end of the project, but I think we are going to get so much out of these next two months.
It has been a pretty big adjustment to life in the Dorms. Everyone is so spread out and I don't see people very much if I don't go into their rooms. Can get a little lonely. Tonight was interesting... We were ALMOST done with cooking dinner when the fire alarm went off. It is the most piercing noise I have ever heard in my life. 7 firetrucks came and it turns out a motor overheated and started smoking and coming out the vents. Nothing major, but quite an ordeal at 7p.
The weather has been a little ridiculous. We had 70 degree weather in the middle of last week, snow day Friday, hot today, and supposed to snow again tomorrow evening thru Wednesday night. Crazy. We are supposed to go to Boulder this weekend too! Hopefully we don't get snowed out again!
Denver Children's Home or DCH - oldest non-profit in Denver.
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