10. Seven months later + lead teaching + 30 credits + 95 page seminar paper = M.Ed. Secondary Education ( Read more... )

The undiscover'd country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?- Hamlet, Act III Scene i ( Read more... )

I was going to have my icon be a picture of fall, but then I realized it's not quite time for the air to crisp and the leaves to turn tricks. Therefore, in honor of my need love of my k-cup coffee machine, the icon labeled "Coffee." Today is a work day, and I don't think I could be less enthused. It was my first full week of classes and work ( Read more... )

Last night I stared up at the Big Dipper standing outside my new apartment building, closed my eyes and willed away the brick middle school building in front of me. It turned into the familiar shadows of tall pine and the dim light coming from the windows of the Stone House in the near distance. I took a deep breath and was filled with a fresh ( Read more... )

I would just like to start this post by saying that yesterday marked the first day of my last month as a twenty year old. Also, I am back in California as of this past Wednesday and it feels like I never left. If anything, it feels as if I blinked and suddenly a month of my time here was stolen out from under me. The students will graduate from the ( Read more... )

It's been a while since I posted. Somehow it doesn't feel right to post about my California experiences while I'm sitting on the computer in my own bedroom, never mind that the reason I am home is for an outreach trip on the east coast. Perhaps that's why I am only just now updating about my current adventures. I'm currently sitting at Bean Traders ( Read more... )

I asked Dana to wake me up this morning when they were leaving, no matter how early it was. Around 8:30am I said goodbye to the first and best friends I've made here.

( Now let me explain why I'm not feeling overly sad. )

If I had a To Do List for California, there would now be a check in the box next to 'complete first solo outreach trip'. Or perhaps there would be a big red stamp next to it that says Success!. Or maybe both. Either way, I am home now, having rolled into the Sierra Friends Center around six yesterday evening. And that was after sitting in traffic ( Read more... )

Today was the Progressive Fest in Petaluma, CA and I was tabling there from about 11:30 to 6:15. Luckily I was not on my own; Alana Steadman, a Spring '04 Woolman Alum, lives a block and a half from Walnut Park where the festival was taking place and kindly joined me for the venture. It was a very successful day, I feel. We met several students ( Read more... )

I am currently sitting outside of Coffee Catz, a (duh) coffee shop located in downtown Sebastopol, CA. I'm here until 6pm (another forty minutes) because that is when Dave & Jenny Abramson, Ryan's cousins and the family I'm staying with for the week, will be home. I'm officially on my first solo outreach trip. I'm super nervous, but trying not to ( Read more... )