World Domination

So I have been saying for awhile that I need to write this stuff down so that I can remember it years from now (or at least by 12/21/12 since apparently the world will end on that day). The girls that I care for look perfectly ordinary on the outside. I have every color of the rainbow in my cottage.....I have black, hispanic, white, half hispanic and even a Hawaiian thrown in for good messure. They are all in their own way unique and beautiful and think they know everything and have all of the answers...basically your typical American teenager.
But underneath all that lies a genious that us mere mortals can only hope to achieve. Here are a few examples:
Three girls were practicing dancing on the back porch of our cottage. No, I am not talking about tap dancing or ballet. I am talking about the kind of dancing you get paid for. They were using mop handles as poles! Oh, and by the way, they were 7 and 10 years old at the time!
They have snuck into an neighboring cottage and grabbed a cordless phone handset that is compatable with the phone we have in our cottage. Then they just plugged it into their room and used it in the middle of the night.
They cut the screens on the windows either from their rooms or in the hallways to sneak out at night. This makes no sense because since we have our own apartment and sleep in there at night, they could have just walked out the door but let's try to destroy some property while we are at it.
Someone from another cottage had a PSP. Those can hook up to the internet so the boys decided to stand next to a houseparents apartment and hook into their wireless internet service so that they could surf porn!
Since access to myspace is blocked at the library, the kids have figured out that if you go to another website that has a link to myspace, that they can get on that way. One of the sites they chose???? An abstinance website called www.whyshouldiwait.com
Two of my girls left the school campus at lunch and went to a store across the street. When confronted with this, the girls admitted it but also informed us that they didn't jaywalk and that when they did skip and leave campus, they were safe and used the crosswalk!!!
And finally, my fave:
Last night one of the girls was on restriction for sneaking out of the house. She was not permitted to use the phone. So she stole a cordless phone from another cottage (a different one from last time) and switched out with one of the phones from our cottage. The problem with this was that the two phones, while being the same brand, looked entirely different. As soon as I discovered that the phone was missing, I hit the locator button on the base unit and the sound led me to the perpetrators room.(Okay, they aren't ALL geniouses but you have to give her credit for originality).
Since taking this job I have learned a very important lesson about myself....I have too kind of a heart and am entirely too trusting of these kids. Do we get along? yes, most of the time we do. We joke and they confide in me(to a point) but the fact of the matter is they are all sisters brought together by bad circumstances and in the end, they will stick together. This is one of those situations where blind trust is not an option. All of them at one point or the other has given me a reason not to trust them.
I guess I am an eternal optimist but am getting a little more cynical every day. But I still see good in these girls (even the most sneaky ones) so that is no reason to give up on them. Besides, it makes for interesting reading, doesn't it?
Oh well, 14 hours until I go off duty and can have a stiff drink and wonder....What will they think of next?
Stay tuned and, until then, TTFN