Today I woke up early and mom took me and Teri and our friend Charice to a rest. to meet up with my case manager, Gracie, the lady in charge of organizing things with pryde, Sheena, my dad, later my sister Delores, and my new foster mom, Aida and 15 year old foster sister Shamika. You try meeting up with a lot of new people that you've never seen before, for a while we were sitting by Sheena, but then Gracie came and asked her if she was Sheena and she said yes. So here's how we sat, at the end of the one side of the table, the end by the wall, Aida sat there, I sat on her right, my real mom sat on my left (that was hard, top sit between a past and present mom, if you know what I mean.) Gracie sat at the like head of the table, on the other side kind of on her right side sat Dad, across from my real mom, let's just call her Ann for now, and dad is Chuck, then on his right side across freom me sat Shamika, and then on her right sat Sheena. I'm going to kind of draw a little thing, I really want too have that in here to remember it, and oh, Teri and Charice sat at a nearby table across the aisle besides us, by themselves.
(wall)
__________
Aida l l Sheena
Mary l l Shamika
Ann l _____ l Chuck
Gracie
l l
Teri l l Charice
l l
__________
(later while me and Shamika and Teri and Charice went outside to talk and me and Shamika smoke, Delores was sitting in my seat, she came then)
Anyway, a lot of us were pretty nervous, I know I was, I finally polietly excused myself to go to the breakfast bar where I started loading my plate with fruit and Shamika came over, that's when I found out her age, she looked older and I didn't know she was with Aida because she's the only other foster care kid there, anyway she said that Aikda sent her to talk to me fisrt, to make it easy as possible for me. Tomorrow, Friday night I'll be staying the night there, I'll just write all of the things I know now, and I am going to move in with them, and first an overnight stay tomorrow, and then in a couple pf weeks I'll move there. Aidfa is a n older lady, she's african american, seems kind of quiet but really sweet, her husband duied twenty years ago and that's why she's a single mom, my dad asked why she was single, and me and Shamike are the only ones there right now, because she only takes two at a time, and we each will have our own room and phone line, she in a weird hard to explain way doesn't mind 9of we sneak and smoke, she is a nurse and works twelve hours a day, 'Mika said that she spoils us, like since they have a new girl (me!) we'll probably go to dave and busters tomorrow night for dinner, this rest. that has a bunch of games and stuff, a redemtion center, a bowling alley, et cetera. I'll go to a new school, which will probably be the hardest thing for me, I can only coninue going to explorers if I can find rides each week, at least until I have my drivers liscense and enough money to buy a car, insurance and gas, this one station was really crowded today because there was gas for a dollar 13.
I forgot to ask about pets, but she's really nice and since she made our rooms to sound like our truley own, I'm sure that I can at least ask if maybe I can get a cat if I keep it in my room and I take full responsibilty for it, I may wait till I find out if I am pregnant for sure or not (yes, again, more later on that I'll try to update as many entries as possible) or maybe try before because it may be like a very minor practice, I know that babies are more work, though.
After the meeting I spent the whole day with Penny, another nice counselor I'll miss when I am done with them and in foster care, and then I went to dads,w here I'm staying the night tonight. I have to go, I'll try to write some more entries, for other days I've missed soon!