Wow. Was today hard. Today I had two new clients that have been the hardest cases so far. One was a mother of a 18 month old and 9-months pregnant who is living out of her car. The other was a woman who lost her family's home though no fault of her own. Her apartment was illegal and deemed uninhabitable. She has never been back on rent and now she is working two jobs just so she can afford the motel her landlord refuses to pay for. I don't know if I'm going to be able to go home and shake these off.

Update #6

I am so tired today. Today we are working on our big project again, and now it involves calling subsided housing places and asking for information, something I do not like doing. But it'll help me with my professional phone skills. I can't believe there's only 2 weeks left. I haven't told my clients yet that I'm leaving and I'm not meeting with anyone this week. It's interesting, many people working in the human service field feel burnout if they grow too attached to their clients. I sort of feel that, but also fueled by politics as of late. Hearing of more and more cuts to these programs that my clients rely so much on makes me feel useless, and is very disheartening. I've been following the debt crises debacle, and I'm very dishearten and saddened by the results. I couldn't sleep last night because I was thinking about the more cuts that will be made to social services and it really concerns me. So many people really relay on programs that will probably have funding cut and it is hard enough as it is to help them. I'm living in Harvard sq, and it seems I see more and more people on the streets all the time. I have to start my paper soon, and I'm kind of worried that it will be really hard to me to kick my brain into school mode. My paper topic so far is very big and general and I'm trying to think of ways I can cut it down and make it more specific. That's all for today.