flowersofnight wrote:
Some Connecticut fans say the difference is that youths here must fight greater levels of boredom.
There has to be a beacon of hope XD There has to be something!
It seems as though the other intern's soul isn't aligned with our mission... One of my cases is a lady who basically got duped into signing as a guarantor for this guy's business and now he's poofed and she's left with all the loans. Her daughter also has cancer and has severe depression and is suicidal, so she's always worried about her daughter.
Anyway, an attorney and I met with the lady and after she left we went to speak with the other attorneys about her case and we strategized. I came back to the intern room alone once we were done and the other intern, who overhead the meeting, said she wanted to feel sorry for the lady, but the lady is an idiot. I said she's not an idiot and she said well she's really trusting. I said that's what it is, and so she said those trusting people are idiots. I didn't respond to that. Last week she said, "They do it to themselves." I brushed it off, but I guess this is really how she feels.
I got accepted to go to a law school-sponsored trip to the Texas border to a family detention center to help women and children escaping violence!

I'm really excited to go and I'll be off in August! :3 One can go anytime as a volunteer, but I really wanted to go with classmates and the whole trip is free, even tickets and room and board! We'll be there for five days from 7am to 7pm and I'll have to undergo a whole day of training before I go. Once there I'll be conducting interviews and counsel detained women and drafting their legal asylum stuff and generally be helping out.
All participating students will bear witness to the unspeakable violence from which detained families have fled and the severe impact that detention has had on them.
My dinner with my Torts professor and Caroline and Isabel was so much fun. I actually felt bummed when we were done. We talked for hours and I tried new dishes like octopus balls and this Japanese pancake thing and tempura. I'm not a big Japanese food person so I was willing to try new things!
I felt totally myself too and I was haughty even though he's a professor. We talked about controversial things and it was awesome. Then we asked about his life and what it was like to be a professor. It was really interesting! We even talked about what happened at the Barrister's Ball to me, and limiting free speech on campuses. A few faculty members wrote a letter to the judge who spoke at graduation and asked for signatures, and the judge wrote back something in defense! We talked about our favorite classes, what we're doing now, etc. He was so laid back and nice too!
When we finished we walked to Times Square and gave each other hugs. I had such a good time that I was already missing it!
