So somehow I'm surviving. I survived camps, which was not nearly as crazy as spring camps. I blame my assignment, which was working with one of my teammates to teach science to elementary school students. We basically improv-ed (as in "doing improv" not "making better") our lessons after an intense prep period. I think the kids connected with it, ( Read more... )

So my favorite part of dinner tonight was when I dripped oil all over my pants. Now I have to explain to my housemates that I did not, in fact, wet myself. Of course, this was closely followed by dinner taking forever to cook and then me not being hungry (story of my culinary life ( Read more... )

My friend/adopted sister's team has a saying: "We don't do KaBoom! builds" (actually, the saying is "We don't _____" with each team member filling in the ______). But that's just what I did today. Our entire corps woke up at 5:45am (nyugh) and drove to the Samuel J Greene Charter School in New Orleans and helped build a playground. It was huge. It ( Read more... )

I will be in California from Saturday, May 27th through Monday, May 30th. If you're there, let's hang out.

These last two days have been ridiculous. I came home from work at a decent hour on Thursday expecting to relax and enjoy my evening off. But I ended up going to help out at someone else's service project at Kenilworth Middle School. Which ( Read more... )