Maybe it is all in who you know? We completed our first adoption class just recently, and it was great! I must admit, at first, I was very leery, and not at all happy when we walked into the building to see a lady checking people off on her list, and taking money for a class!
I was seething, thinking, “Please, not another blunder!” The woman made us step off to the side to “deal with us” once she had checked in the others who were in line.
Standing there…seething, I mean, seriously seething people (you’d have to know what has transpired in the past few weeks---too much to try and type), thinking, and about to cry because I was just that pissed because my hubby has made so many deals to work his schedule around these classes, when who should walk around the corner, then someone I work with (referred to as the Class Leader)!
Come to find out, this person I work with, is a teacher by day, and a social worker by night (not really, but you get the picture). She is the trainer for our agency. I never knew! I see her all the time, but never knew that she was a social worker full time in a former life! Just goes to show you why you should not go around burning bridges!
She looks at me, and says, “Are you the __________ from my list?” I laughed and nodded, still too stunned to speak. And guess who was walking with her? That’s right! OUR social worker! This was too much!
Come to find out, the other class that that rude person was checking names off for, was a court appointed parenting class for people who have gotten in trouble with the law dealing with their kids, and have been mandated to attend and pay for these classes. As the Class Leader put it once we got to our classroom, those people where the people who unfortunately, we may end up adopting their kids, or fostering them until they can get them back.
At any rate, class was wonderful. It was really a lot of fun, not at all what I thought it was going to be. We all introduced ourselves, and I must say, we are in class with a lot of real characters! We did role play, and we seriously cut up, so it made the time for the class go by really quickly!
We even all bonded together talking trash about another person in the class who literally texted the entire time we were in class! When we had a break, and she walked out of the room, everyone turned to one another and asked, “Exactly why is she here?” and, “How rude can one be?” It was kinda nice, everyone finding common ground on which we could unite.
Also during the course of the class, the Class Leader and I were constantly relating material she was teaching about, to some of the students we have known in the past…this made me feel really good. LOL. I know, I’m bad, huh? But you just don’t understand, we were seriously thinking about giving up until this class began! We were just that tired of feeling that we were not “important enough,” to deal with!
And guess what? How about all of the stuff that my social worker has been promising me, but forgot to give me, and had yet to give me, was all in the inbox of my email account the next day! Huh! Maybe it IS all in who you know!
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