Wadline and Phillis Wheatley

"I'm so happy with the Phillis Wheatley project man.  Wadline is such an amazing girl. When i first met her, I thought it would be so difficult dealing with a such an aggressive character.  It really has been, but with the difficulty comes the glory.  I've worked really hard to gain her trust and respect. It has made me go through a thought process that i've never approached before.  And I'm so happy with it.  I feel results, and the best part about it, is that my goal is not to see results.  The fact that they are shooting at me only makes the whole experience even better.  I love seeing that my girls (Wadline and Fantasia) actually want to read, enjoy it, and more than anything, comprehend it.  I decided to discuss what we read on a deeper level as well, and I'm really happy they appreciated it.  What I am "iffy" about though, is the amount of time we see them. I mean, I understand that we cant, but i just wish we could. I got to talk to the girls about drugs and it just amazed me.  I mean the first time i had seen pot was in the eight or ninth grade, and that's that I thought I was overly exposed for my age.  These kids are not even teenagers yet. They should still be vulnerable, naive, and innocent. But they are not at all.  Being vulnerable is not even a question for them. I didn't even ask them whether they would try drugs, and their strong and firm stance against the idea shocked me.  It is amazing that these hard drugs are all around them, and they just seem to understand how destructive they are. Regardless of the fact that their family members approve of them. We cease to realize this horrifying situation. We have just become so accustomed to the idea that there are poor black people whom are unseen by society.  Yesterday i got so angry for a moment.  I was discussing my day in Phillis Wheatley with my mom, and step dad. I told them how sad it is that that these young lives see horrible things, and it is completely accepted by our culture.  My step dad immediately jumped at me and told me that it was sad, but it was something that had to be, and that it was best to simply overlook sad realities, and get as far away from them as possible.  The first thing i said after he said this was "I'm doing this program again, next semester".  My mom got kind of angry and worrisome.  It's people like them that maintain and promote these huge divisions.