Training Log Archive: barb

An awesome morning orienteering with > 200 5th grade girls. Great support from the Bermans, Ethan, two high schoolers, David, Isabel, Liz McNerney, a clutch of Youth Center employees and some Recreation Department folks. We did two score-Os. Several teams got all the controls and none of the poison controls.

Yay!

On to CSU meet tonight.

Walked home, practicing my lines.

There's the slave
That holds in chase mine honor up and down.

C • King John 10

Stuck in BWI - plane to Boston won't leave until 1am. I spent the last 3 days in Albuquerque, with my son, ex-husband, ex-mother-in-law, ex-aunt-in-law, and ex-cousin-in-law, celebrating the life of my ex-grandmother-in-law, who passed away at 102. She was a wonderful person, and I am happy to have been able to spend time with her, as recently as March.

The coming week:
Tue - Ethan teaches 2 classes; we prep for Wed.
Wed - morning: 211 5th grade girls orienteer at Danehy Park. Evening: CSU meet; we are hosting.
Thu - Ethan teaches 2 classes
Fri - CSUS World Orienteering Day, 5 classes
Sat - coaching clinic all day (Erin teaching)
Sun - Youth orienteering series

On Friday I have my first rehearsal for King John. I'll be performing on June 9th and 10th at MIT. It's an MIT Shakespeare Ensemble reunion production. I'm playing Lady Falconbridge and the Mayor. The nightmares about not knowing my lines have started.

5 WOD classes postponed today because of rain.

We put on an event at Foss Park in Somerville today. David made the map, and I'm pretty excited about how quickly he picked up OCAD and how pleasing the map is. We did not have many people come to our event. We are obviously missing a whole PR arm of the organization. Best to focus on the school programs and classes that people sign up for - and the collaboration with NEOC and CSU for the youth series.

Ended up biking to Mass Eye and Ear due to a vitreous detachment. Left my bike there because it was too bright (dilated pupils) to bike home.

Today I will talk to the guy in charge of Girls in Sports Day.
Next week: Talk to NCDS about their WOD plan, and reflect on our 2 day orienteering lesson from last week. Also I'll meet with Vassal Lane teachers about the plans for June event.

I have a lot of work/school stuff today and tomorrow, and then Sunday is youth orienteering series #2. Also this weekend need to work on press releases for WOD, finish the map for CSUS, contact a dozen or so people for Navigation Games business, start working on the summer program.

Also want to talk to my mom's doctor, do more transplanting, etc.
Better get to work! (Psyched about work today!)

Keegan! I'm still just so happy about Keegan doing the Billygoat. Also, his parents did the Pygmy.

This morning I did some more transplanting, of tomatoes and peppers.

C • Keegan 4

I thought you might enjoy reading the responses from the survey of the students and staff, from our 2-day 9th grade orienteering introduction last week.

Navigation Gamer Keegan, age 14, beat Phil, Ed, J-J, Yevgeni, Dave - so many people! I'm so impressed.

Hung 80 controls for a high school orienteering outing, Day 2 of working with 60 9th grade girls. Ethan and Zakwani also were there. Ethan is of course wonderful. I really enjoy getting to partner with him on these things. His teaching is really good. He is proactive about figuring out all the stuff we need, which makes a big difference when I'm getting tired the night before and struggling to make sure we have all the things.
One of our teens, Alex, also helped last night to get ready, doing a bunch of laminating and cutting and stapling to make the "team" controls and the punch cards.

It was a success - the girls were enthusiastic orienteers.

C • 60 9th grade girls 12

Ethan, Zakwani and I spent the day teaching 60 9th grade girls how to orienteer.

Activities:

1. Presentation, describing all the activities
   
2. Poison Score-O
   
3. Four skill stations: (N) orienting (and keeping oriented) the map, (E) distance estimation, (S) bearing and attack point, (W) map symbols and communication location verbally in case of emergency
   
4. Lunch
   
5. Planning session in teams for which controls they will visit tomorrow, in what order, and how they will work together as a team (4 students per team)
   
6. White and Yellow courses at Edmands Park
   

It all worked beautifully.
Tomorrow morning, I will hang 62 controls by 9am. Hoping to start around 5.

People are awesome.
Really awesome people: Cristina Luis, Ethan Childs, Alex Rosenberg, and the NCDS teachers.

Great meeting just now with Ethan and a teacher at the new middle school we are working with for WOD. I am SO EXCITED!
Looks like we can do an afterschool club there too, in the fall. NEED MONEY, NEED COACHES.

Trying to convince Dave that we should have another kid.
An exchange student from Finland, who orienteers and likes science and math.

C • Another kid 3

To Boston work, to Cambridge work, to home