My Nursing Classmates

My nursing classmates are a bunch of characters. It's like that show, "Community", but on steroids. Never before in my life have I been in a classroom like this... never have I experienced such a colorful and eclectic cast of characters. Unfortunately, the most colorful ones have already been kicked out of the program. We're at about 2/3 of our original class.

There was/is:

The Immigrant Woman: She has crazy stories about her life when she first came to America. She was forced into this quasi-slave labor camp. She was forced to work 60 hours a week and only paid $75 a week for her sweat. She also called our attention to the La Cucaracha and Pro women (Below).

La Cucaracha Woman: She had numerous cockroaches scuttling out of her bag whenever she put it on the ground. She was kicked out yesterday for repeated tardies, but I think it's because the instructor didn't want to worry about a cockroach infestation. Plus, she was shockingly dim.

The Pro: While leaving her ESL night class, The Immigrant Lady spotted The Pro strutting back and forth on a corner, in front of a closed bank, calling out to prospective customers. We all had wondered what was up with this girl because she has these wild eyes and is always arguing with the teacher.

Plus, she's very pretty, but comes to class in totally crazy outfits: she wears Dominatrix shoes and tight tops with her boobs and stomach pouring out of them, but then she has on these huge, grandma baggy-long culotte jean shorts and big, baggy jackets. Like the shirt and shoes go together, and a separate outfit where the shorts and jacket go together. I think she was probably turning tricks and realized she was about to be late, so threw on the only respectable thing she had left over her work clothes. It's really sad. She has something in her that reminds me of Charlize Theron in "Monster". Just really raw and desperate. She was 30 minutes late for class and so the teacher locked her out (those are the rules). She was banging on the door and yelling at us to let her in. Threatening to go to the dean and everything. She had a total meltdown. Now that I know she's a street walker, I feel really horrible about the whole thing. She's probably just so desperate to start a new life. I hope that she's able to.

There were a few other girls who got kicked out, but the details behind them are vague. All I know is that they didn't pass the fingerprinting background check. We had to do the Livescan fingerprints at the police station and one of them actually got apprehended right then and there because she had a warrant out for her arrest.

Now it's mostly nice, ambitious girls who are left. The crazies and criminals have been weeded out. And like 90% of the class is really, really pretty. It's funny, but I guess it makes sense. Nursing school.