Hey everyone,
So this post is going to be a little recap
of Thursday and Friday since I haven’t written anything over the last couple
days. The next post is going to be about more metro experiences.
One of the things that stuck out the most
to me on Thursday was happened literally 5 ft. away from me in front of me. So
I am standing at the corner waiting on a friend at a crosswalk. The crosswalk
is red and so cars are passing with minor gaps. Several people try taking
advantage of these gaps and one person doesn’t quite make it. The car slows down
and gives the man only a bump and the guy falls over and people start gathering
over to see if he was all right. It wasn’t anything too serious and the fall
from after was actually more serious in my opinion. Strange thing is that after
the guy took a seat next to me on the curb and the people gathered, the driver
pulled over for a second and then drove off when no one was looking. I ended up
leaving before the police came because I didn’t have my phone and I couldn’t
find my friend. That is about it for Thursday. Friday, on the other hand, was
very interesting.
So my Friday starts with me arriving at
work to have one of the other interns, Melanie, start asking me questions about
some incident from the day before. Huardine had been looking for me after work on
Thursday but we had already left for the metro since I am neither required to
stay at work after 8pm nor would I even if the internship was paid. Apparently
Huardine had received a visit from one of the little girls we work with and her
parents with a complaint about me. She was trying to accuse me of spitting on
her, hitting her, and yelling at her. Before I go further I would just like to
say that this is FALSE! Crazy, right? So she was giving me a heads up because
Huardine was going to talk to me about these crazy allegations against me when
he arrived. So after doing some completely unrelated grunt work for the head of
the NGO (helping a friend move boxes and other things from one place to
another), we go over with what he might say to me because as I’ve mentioned
before, I get nervous and freeze up. Huardine arrives and he ends up talking to
all of us instead of just pulling me aside to also talk about protocol, being
role models, etc. From there I got to explain how the girl is obviously lying
through her teeth and that I wouldn’t do that for multiple reasons the main one
being that if I’m not working, I wouldn’t be allowed to stay in France. So I
explained this and was told that the parents were going to come in with the
daughter to speak to me. This never happened. To add onto this, her sister came
in for the afternoon activities without her and me and Maura went and asked her
what was going on (I needed a little help here since I understand maybe about
70% of what the kids say).
The sister goes on to tell us that she had
come home with a red mark on her face and crying about who knows what. Somehow
I got wrapped up in this since I had spent a decent amount of time with her
during the recreational hours. During this time however I was also with Ibn and
Maura and the closest I got to yelling at her was when her and 5 others were
literally climbing and jumping on us and I told her several times to stop.
The story had more
than one version to it, which is probably why the family never showed up, they
figured out that she was an attention seeking, misbehaved, foul-mouthed, liar.
Excuse my words but I hope she gets rightfully punished for trying to make me
get fired. We already deal with physical abuse and anything they do or say to
me is one thing since it stays between work, the kids, and me, but putting me
in a place where I’m practically defenseless is complete nonsense.
So I think that
everything has passed but I won’t really know until tomorrow. Now I just need
to worry about not letting the little girl have it when I see her again.
That’s all I’m going to write for now.
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