Sharon, first of all, you had done a magnificent job with all the agencies you've been serving this semester. Wow! Way to go!
I understand your frustration with lax agencies. I guess I think of it and try to deal with it in a calm and patient manner. Ha! It's hard and frustrating, but we're here, working with their agency, doing what 'we hope' they want us to do. And I think that's really all they want, and they appreciate it if we're there at all. We may have all sorts of suggestions and recommendations for the program, but (when they're not looking for suggestions) I just try to keep those things in mind in case I run my own program one day :) Or at least now after working with a lax agency, I now have a much better idea of what I want when looking for an agency to work with. You know, we kinda gotta go with the flow when we're there, and we just can't control things they way we'd like to (or I know I'd like to) when we're gone. Sad, but true.
So glad Lori's student is taking over the class, by the way!!
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Thanks, Jill. I have often felt that I have been navigating without equipment in a pea-soup fog ... so I am glad to know that I did not necessarily miss the last turn!
ReplyDeleteI think you are right that a huge lesson here is learning how perhaps not to do it ... and sometimes that is more powerful and valuable than being part of something that works very well ... 'cause when those situations hit a rough spot, things get really crazy.