Monday

R-1 is not here. His attendance has been perfect for weeks. I see his soon to be baby's mama. I ask where is he? She says he must be home sleeping. She looks sheepish. But she is not his mama.

M is on the run. The ISP has a warrant. He will get locked up. Maybe placed somewhere out of his home.

We have just finished a reading from the journal of Alvar Nunez de Cabeza de Vaca about his encounters with the indigenous. How he and his handful of men survived years in a savage strange land. We watched the Roger Corman film Cabeza de Vaca. He survives captivity to become a wandering healer among the indigenous. Finally he finds a party of Conquistadors. He questions his own religion. His men boast of fantastic cities. Cities of gold. He is silent. Francisco Corornado soon sets out to find the cities. There are 7. He takes with him The Requerimiento. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Requerimiento. We read The Requerimiento. I deconstruct and break down the vocab. They must write a letter in response to the document.

E steals a black sharpie from A who is helping him write his letter. He asks for her apple. She gives it to him. He takes her orange too. She finds the apple smashed in the hallway. There is fresh graffiti on the wall outside the bathroom and inside.
I hear this. I say to A that we must confront him. She is hesitant. We have too. Yes he took the sharpie. No he did not do the graffiti. I say he can't return until he replaces the sharpie and cleans the walls. I call his mother. Her son does not do graffiti. We can't prove it. Never mind he stole the sharpie. He smashed the apple because it had a hole in it. None of this was her mijo's fault.
She is not concerned with his disrespectful behavior. Only that we cannot prove he wrote 13k on the walls. But he will return tommorow with the black sharpie and he will clean the walls even though he did not do it.