Living in LA part 2

After a few days of being in the Hollywood Inn express south, I went to the GAIN office for a new voucher for the hotel, but I did not have all the receipts, so they would not put the money on my card. Instead they gave me a voucher check and told me to use their choice of motels. Out of the 5 motels one stood out because it said they had a kitchen, so I chose that one. Well after moving all my things down to that motel, I found they did not have kitchens and they did not have refrigerators or internet, and most of the rooms only had one bed, full sized, but still not big enough for me and the kids. So I left our things there and took the metro rapid 754 back up to the Alexandria House shelter and told them my situation. I gave the kids something to eat and went upstairs to check my email. As I was checking my email, one of the ladies there, named Liz came upstairs to tell me they found a place for us to go.
Well we were taken down there without getting our things. And let me tell you 5 days without a shower and 4 kids who naturally happen to be cousins with the dirt they wear is not a pretty sight.
Our first night, I paid the lady (her name is Arzina) there $450 in cash to stay the whole month, and that left me with $158 in cash for the whole month. And I had about $800 in food stamps, so that I was not worried about, it was just keeping the kids clean that was.

Wednesday I had cooked dinner for all the residents in the house and just when I thought I could eat, everyone started cleaning out the two refrigerators in the kitchen and putting dirty dishes from them in the sink and the spoiled food on the table, then I was told it was my turn to clean the kitchen. OK I thought, I’m cool with that, but then after I started to sweep the floor the same girl came up to me and said “oh yeah I forgot to mention to you that you also have to clean the living room too”. So I spent 5 hours starting at 10:00 Pm cleaning both bathrooms and the kitchen and living room. There were dirty dishes on the counter and in the sink piled high. I finally went to bed at 3:00 AM, dirty and tired.
Thursday morning, I made breakfast for my kids and had all the other parents’ kids who did not go to school come up to me saying they were hungry. I told them all to go talk to their parents and the parents told me to give their kids something to eat. Hey I am not these kids’ parents, why should I feed them with my kids’ food? Only to be told after I fed them that I should clean the dishes I used for the meal. I was not happy.

Well she finally took me on Thursday night to get my things from the motel and check out. After getting everything out we headed back to the house and I put my things into my room. After settling all the kids into bed and I sat down to read a newspaper to look for a job, but miss Arzina came upstairs and asked why everything was dirty, every one had an excuse not to clean one was saying she was too sick, Yeah right she sits on her ass everyday. I told Miss Arzina I did it and more the other night and it was not my turn, after she found out everyone had me clean up all that, she was mad. She said that everyone waited for me to get here to clean out the refrigerators and then made me throw their stuff away because they were lazy.

We were supposed to have a house meeting and rewrite the chores list, but it pretty much seems to me that I am stuck cleaning everything while everyone is either eating or talking. I am told to clean this and clean that, but I have to go out to watch my kids, while the other parents sit upstairs and watch TV and talk all while their kids are outside. I leave one spoon in the sink and I have to wash everything in the sink, but they will go a whole day or more without washing dishes. Oh never mind my roommate coming home with her baby and getting into a fight with me for having my kids sleep on her bed. This place has no funding what so ever and all these rooms have two families inside them and they are barely 10ft by 15ft.The beds are twin sized. There are two beds in my room, and two adults and 5 kids must share these two small twin sized beds. There are around 10 kids here and 7 Adults (myself included) in a really bad Compton neighborhood. All my kids are half Chinese, but these other kids are all black (OK racially and otherwise, they don’t wear shoes to play outside)

Finally we get to Friday, I gave the kids a shower and clean clothes. Gave them a bowl of cereal and sent them to play outside so I could clean the room and get my roommate off my back, I needed to wash laundry, but by Friday my remaining money was gone so I tried to ask around, well after a while my roommate left for work with her baby and she did not come home till around 10:00 Pm. Meanwhile I realize I am missing my EBT card, so I am home alone with everyone’s kids, all the adults are in their rooms and ignoring my requests to help watch the kids so I can look for it.
After Miss Arzina came back home I told her what happened and we called the EBT hotline and it looks like I lost $175 dollars in food stamps. I only had $400 or something. But to be left with around $200 before I canceled my card all because the other Adults in this house are a bunch of stuck up snobs living on welfare and refusing to even find work and at the same time preventing me from looking for work because I am too busy watching their kids and cleaning up after them.

I really do hope these people loose their kids, but if social workers come here they will take my kids as well (death by association) I really do want to get a job and get the fuck away from these lazy drama mamas. All they do is fight all day about who has to clean what, or who’s kids are doing what or someone stole my…….crap. Enough already, I just want to run away with my kids and say to hell with them.

Saturday a day of relaxation in China because all kids are in school, but here in America kids are home from school, a nightmare waiting to happen. My roommate and the other residents get into a screaming match while all the kids are running up and down the stairs screaming and going in and out of the house. I tried to stay out of it because it was one of those someone stole this crap and someone left this here. I just washed my dishes and tried to make lunch for my kids, and then I went to my room and got online to search for a job and update my blog.

I hate these people, they do not care when their kids get hurt and one woman screams at her baby and spanks it (around a year old) because the baby cries from all the noise, they only give their kids juice instead of water and feed the kids cereal, chips, candy and cookies, all the while eating nothing but pizza rolls and every single frozen TV dinner from what ever store they got them from.






I at least feed my kids according to the schedule and I feed them actual food. These other kids are going to get sick because they are not eating right because of their parents who cant even be bothered to watch them and make sure a child molester doesn’t take them.
I rarely eat junk, but I am still fat. (OK not fat fat, but it looks like it)
Would it surprise you to know that most of these kids here will eat vegetables when I feed them? It is sad that their parents won’t feed them right. I got one boy to eat a salad made from spring mix and olives and French dressing. I used onions on my salad; I totally forgot to buy tomatoes.


Well, this is the end of my update, because Sunday just started and there is not much happening at this time of day. Catch you later.