
When I first become homeless and went to the state to help me (even though they didn’t do shit), they told me based on some rule it would be easier for them to help me if I was in school. So, I became a homeless kid going to school. The state put me in the only school that would accept kids like me.
The school put me in a program called The Second Chance. Anybody who goes to this program attends the very few classes they do have in a separate building. Why you ask? Same reason they don’t question us when we say we don’t want to work. They are afraid of what we might do if we lose our temper.
Despite all that, I am actually thankful I have the opportunity to go here. See, I always said I represent “Us”. But j really never knew who “us” is. This is mainly because, in my circle of friends I’m the only one who deals with these set of problems. I’ve always known they’re kids who are like me, with problems. It’s just never saw them before.
So if you would ask me now, who do you represent? I would say; “Us”. The rejects of the rejects. “Us”. People who have had something happen to them in the past and now are forced to take on life with a scar on their soul. “Us”. The few that society dose not seem to understand. I represent us.
Live Love Life, give love….
Ela