Welcome to my first blog! This is Tiffany Tang’s blog btw. Right now it’s pouring outside. Thunder is threatening. I might need to close this down to prevent my laptop from frying. So what is new? I am working with kids at a non-profit in Miami. The purpose of me being here is to change for the better one child’s life some way somehow. Everyone tells me that I am, but I’m not so sure.
When a society has been so used to doing things a certain way it is hard to change. For instance, I had a breakdown not too long ago when the kids kept hitting each other. Boys and girls fought, and I would place my body between them to break it up. It was chaotic. I snapped and yelled at them. Why are you guys always using violence! Stop it! Than I ran out of the room in tears. Very difficult situation to deal with.
I know they are likely to witness a lot of violence in their own homes, and I know that dealing with this kind of behavior was part of the package…still……deep down I really believe that we are all the same. Black children are not different from white children, or any other ethnicity for that matter
. They are just as obedient, naughty, smart, and difficult. Therefore, I thought speaking to them as I was spoken to when i was little was appropriate. I don’t need to yell to be heard. But I find myself yelling. Very uncool. A really loud thunder just sounded. Time to shut down, till next time. To the side is a picture I took of the girls that won the bingo game when I took them over to the independent living facility over at Ward Towers.
