I am a resident counselor at one of the top pre-college enrichment summer programs in the world and I'm calling Los Angeles, California, my home for the next six weeks.

 

End of 3.1 =(

These last few days have been uneventful, at least for me. The only times I’ve left campus were to drive kids to Santa Monica and Venice Beach (where “medical marijuana doctors” are plenty) and to go to Westwood to buy Diddy Riese cookies for one of my girl’s 16th birthday.

The birthday was Wednesday. Her name is Maria and she’s from Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic. She was sick yesterday and upset and homesick. We as an RC group did our best to give her a good birthday. We made a poster that said “happy birthday” in all of our languages and signed it, got her a balloon, two dozen cookies, and I gave her my Poofy Pop. We played music in the hall and I think she was really feeling better!