Week 3:<\/p>\n
I was with Kalia again. She\u2019s going to be here until March 15. The other girl we were with didn\u2019t speak English and we had a translator device. At first it was way too loud. They tried to make it say bad words and they giggled the whole time. The other girl\u2019s going to be in here until she\u2019s twenty. Kalia fell off her bike once and the handlebar stabbed her in the chest. Her heart stopped and she had to go to the hospital. They\u2019re not allowing her to go back to her family; she\u2019s going to a group home. I can\u2019t imagine what that must be like for her, because I know she loves her family, regardless of whatever it is that she hasn\u2019t shared about them that made the state believe that\u2019s not a safe place for her. The other girl told a story about guns and being afraid but the translator didn\u2019t get it. She also said she was in a fight and fell and everyone laughed at her. I should really improve my Spanish. Mostly they giggled and talked crap and at one point, Kalia said, \u201cWell, you didn\u2019t *snorrrt* when you were young,\u201d and asked her how she got her illegal substances. Luckily, we were able to redirect the conversation back to the movies. My main thought from today is that these girls have been through awful things. They\u2019re not perfect\u2014far from it\u2014but they were giggling and being kids tonight. And yeah, the humor wasn\u2019t innocent, but they can\u2019t really afford to be. Neither were they allowed to be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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