Feb 18th - 23rd If you were to pin me to the wall and demand to know what this year's "big idea" has been at work - the theme, the big-picture pattern - I would say this: planning and logistics. For example: How do you get students to organize and execute a fancy fund-raising dinner?... Continue Reading →
Feb. 12th For the last two years, I've been involved as the teacher sponsor of the student chapter of Habitat for Humanity. (If you are not familiar with the organization, look it up. It's cool.) Last month, two other teachers and I took a group of about twenty students to a build site an hour... Continue Reading →
Jan 23 - 28th Those who have been following this blog for a while have seen the pictures and read the stories of me on Mt. Kenya - you know about the intercultural trips student's at this school go on every year. In case this blog is new to you: every year in the last... Continue Reading →
Hello! Long time no ... post. Yes - three months since my last post is quite out-of-the-ordinary for me. But then ... it's been an out-of-the-ordinary quarter. Just when I thought things couldn't get much busier, they did. And so here I am after three months of relative silence. It's 'spring break' now. Though really... Continue Reading →
Dec 29th - 31st She gave me a curious look - maybe hesitant or confused, certainly amused - and responded, "Do we bathe every day? Of course." I glanced off towards the field for a moment, faintly embarrassed. I had come prepared to rough it. What's three days without a bath after all? But my... Continue Reading →
This morning I walked past the Pre-Kindergarten snack / playground area and caught the middle of the following conversation: "Why do you guys call me a giant? I'm not a giant. Do I look like a giant?" The teacher was perched on top of the shoe cubbies watching the kids eat their snack. One particularly... Continue Reading →
3:05pm. With ten minutes left to the start of a long weekend, the class of ten-year-olds in front of me were getting squirrely. I decided to cut my musical losses and have a group chat. "So what are you guys doing for the long weekend? Their hands shot up in the air and a couple... Continue Reading →
I'm feeling quite unpoetic these days, so I don't think this post will be particularly captivating. Still, it's been ages since I've made the effort, so it's about time to articulate. The most recent and most relevant event in my world was the musical production "Once Upon A Mattress." This year's musical was a big... Continue Reading →
First day of my high-school physics class (sometime in the 90s): The perky redhead teacher at the front of the room looked at us with shining eyes and a bright smile. On the counter in front of her, she had a stack of strange objects. “You’ve been divided into groups. In just a minute, you... Continue Reading →
Where has September gone? I've often thought about posting these last few weeks, but barely has the thought floated across my brain than I have had to attend to the next set of demands. Life has been hectic but fun, hurried but calm, full but beautiful. And my heart is thankful. Sept 3rd: Asher Dee... Continue Reading →
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