Training Log Archive: barb

Watched "In the Heat of the Night" with the family the other night -- we all loved it. Looking forward to "They call me MISTER Tibbs", the blaxploitation sequel.

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I gave a presentation in March at the Massachusetts Environmental Education Conference, in which I described the orienteering team-building curriculum I have developed with teachers in Cambridge public schools. One of the attendees has recommended me to Citizen Schools, a non-profit organization that provides extended learning time for students. They are working with a school in Roxbury that has received failing grades from No Child Left Behind and has therefore received funding to partner with Citizen Schools. They've asked me to create a program similar to the one I described at MEES, for 20 students in a four-week program this summer on Thompson Island.

I have some scheduling conflicts, and would love to find someone else who can either work with me or take leadership for putting on this activity. Can you help? It requires that you be available from noon to 3:00 pm on Tuesdays or Thursdays for four weeks in July and the beginning of August. This is volunteer work.

A breakthrough. I went running. I did it by "throwing my hat over the wall" (because then you have to find a way to climb that wall so you can retrieve the hat): I left my bike at Izzy's school and rode home with the family last night. So I had to retrieve the bike. The bike that is now a pleasure to ride, thanks to Tim, the Rolling Wrench.

The reason we were at school last night was that Isabel was doing her 8th grade review panel: a 30-minute presentation by her of her growth and learning over the past 2 years. She talked about her volunteer work at Animal Rescue League of Boston, presented her math paper on why you flip the inequality when you multiply by a negative number, discussed her 6-chapter fictional account of the middle passage as experienced by a slave captured in Africa, and explained why a heated balloon rises. Then she talked about her orienteering career and actually stated that she hopes to make the US junior team in the next few years. !
She fielded a few questions and the judging panel gave her a "pass with honors." I didn't even cry too much.

When we got home I took a nap and then woke up grouchy and was the worst mom ever, expressing my amazement that it takes David so long to write his papers, I am really the worst mom ever. Bad bad bad bad. Anyway, this morning I ran to the bike, and biked to D&D and got David a hot chocolate and breakfast sandwich. Back at home I woke him up and we had a better conversation about how we are alike and different, and how we are each good at various things and we each know it. And how we both have some things we want to work on in how we act.

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With Isabel, at Nobscot. Thanks Ed!

Work, CRLS, work, G&P.