Deyra Moves to the Dorms!

I, of course, have been meaning to write for a month but never got around to it. I am the world’s biggest procrastinator and since writing this blog has no deadline, I never do it. We also didn’t really have anything interesting happen. Deyra mostly stayed in her room and declined to go places with us. She did, surprisingly, go to a local minor league soccer game with us. She talked on the phone for most of the game, but said that she had fun. On Mother’s Day, Deyra was very sweet and gave me a bouquet of silk flowers that she had put together. She also gave, my mom, sister, mother-in-law, and me cards. She never signs cards or writes anything on them so Kevin’s mom made her sign her name on the card so that she could remember her. Last week, Deyra moved into the dorms. We took her to Walmart the week before so that she could buy all of the things that she needed. She barely had enough money because she uses all of her money to eat fast food and buy junk food. Deyra said that some of her classmates had to move in a day later than everyone else because they literally had no money and had to wait until they got paid the beginning of June! I think they need a class on money management! Deyra moved into the dorms on June 1st. I felt kind of bad because it was a Friday and Kevin and I both had parties to go to that evening so it was very rushed. We took her to the dorms and helped her fill out all of the forms (waivers, damage forms, etc.). Her roommate had not filled out her room checklist, I think because she did not understand the questions, so we helped her too. I showed them how to work the air conditioner and then we unloaded all of her stuff and left hoping that she could figure out everything else. We told her to call if she needed anything or wanted to hang out. Deyra’s new roommate is from Haiti and doesn’t speak Spanish so that will be good for both of them to practice English. Deyra said that her roommate is the lowest English speaker in their group, and Deyra is pretty low as well so this should be interesting! Yesterday, Kevin and I were at dinner talking about Deyra and how we hadn’t heard from her since she moved into the dorms. We decided to call her after dinner and literally a minute later she sent me a text asking if we could take her to church in the morning. I of course said yes and we picked her up this morning. She told us that the dorms are good, but that her classmates stay up until 2:00 AM and won’t let her sleep either. Deyra generally went to bed at 8:30 or 9:00 PM when she lived with us and said that she is tired all the time now. She told us that they are going on a trip to Sacramento next weekend, but didn’t really know the details or why they were going. She said that they were going to “see one building”. When we asked her if it was the capital, she said “maybe”. We are getting together with my family for Father’s Day next Sunday and she said that she wanted to go if she was back in time. I’ll continue to write if we spent time with Deyra, but my entries will probably be less frequent.