Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Carolina Football
Looking back I can't really tell you the minute that we became Carolina fans, but every since middle and high school, we have made the trip to Columbia to see the Gamecocks play. My dad explained the rules to me and it have been a great relationship every since, except when my beloved Gamecocks lose and that is not a fun day. So, any given Saturday in the fall, you will find me at Cockaboose #13 with great friends and food, getting ready to see if the Cocks can pull out a win. It doesn't hurt that we have the coolest mascot, Cocky.
If you have never been to a tailgate and game in the south, you haven't been to a football game. You are there, cheering on your team with 80,000 of your closest friends. Tailgating is no simple feat either. There is a lot of planning that goes into making sure there is enough food and what the theme is. And, if it is an early game, then you must plan for breakfast and lunch. There is an art to tailgating and those in the south know how to do it. If you don't believe me, come visit us for a game!
Until the next game, Go Cocks!
Thursday, October 1, 2009
SC Heart Gallery
Probably one of the coolest things I have gotten involved with through a friend is the South Carolina Heart Gallery. Photographers throughout the state volunteer to take pictures of foster children in different regions of t
he state that become part of galleries that travel around the state to promote adoption. In the past year that I have worked with the Heart Gallery, I have meet some amazing kids. This past summer marked a year and I returned to Florence to shoot for a third time. This time I had four brothers I took pictures of last year and a brother that I shoot last year with his sister, who was no longer adoptable because she reached 18. It was great to see the boys again, but at the same time sad because they hadn't gotten a home and they desire an amazing home. They have so much spirit and joy and are truly great kids.
The other day I was eating lunch with a friend and her roommate from undergrad ate with us. She is getting her masters degree in social work and we got to talking about the Heart Gallery. She said she had just gotten some pictures of a boy that she worked with and I curiously asked to see it. It was unbelievable, but it was a photo of a boy I had shoot last summer. He was really quite, but it was so special. I will never forget before I left for the day I went over to say bye and let him know I would get him some pictures that we had taken. He asked if I would print some for his mom and I said I would and at that moment, he reached out and gave me a huge hug. It was at that moment I knew I was making a difference to him. I don't always feel like I can or do actually do a lot to help others, but getting to use my love of photography to help these kids means the world to me.
This past year I also took photos in Columbia at the zoo. Jakaar was deaf, but had a hearing aid. His foster mom realized half way through the it wasn't on even though he said it was, so he hadn't heard anything we had been saying, just shaking his head yes to everything! He had this huge smile from the moment he walked up and I was hooked. We journeyed around the zoo and seeing him experience the animals was priceless. That day I also had two brothers who at first were a little unsure of things. I gave them the zoo map and asked them where they wanted to go. They picked the train. The volunteer with us asked if we were allowed to let them ride and I asked her, "what are they going to do, fire me?" They loved the train and we continued our trek through the zoo. I got some great pictures of them and then they helped me and took pictures as well as come up with their own poses! That day I have two others girls that rounded out whole I shoot.
I can't post the photos, but you can check them out at scheargallery.com and click on Galleries.
In Region II, you can see Hadrian Zyanvious and Jakaar, in the first panel of photos (center bottom and right bottom) and in the third panel of photos, Brittany is the left photo in the middle.
In Region IV Brandy is the top left on the first panel of photos, Danny and Darius are center left on the second panel of photos and Jaivon and RaiQuawn are the far right on the same row. They are brothers to Jerone and Jimmy on the next panel top left. In the next panel is Tereka and Rayquan that are the brother and sister I mentioned from last year and Tyre is the boy I mentioned that my friend's roommate was working with (middle row far left). As you look through, the photos with the read heart logo mean the children now have families!
he state that become part of galleries that travel around the state to promote adoption. In the past year that I have worked with the Heart Gallery, I have meet some amazing kids. This past summer marked a year and I returned to Florence to shoot for a third time. This time I had four brothers I took pictures of last year and a brother that I shoot last year with his sister, who was no longer adoptable because she reached 18. It was great to see the boys again, but at the same time sad because they hadn't gotten a home and they desire an amazing home. They have so much spirit and joy and are truly great kids.The other day I was eating lunch with a friend and her roommate from undergrad ate with us. She is getting her masters degree in social work and we got to talking about the Heart Gallery. She said she had just gotten some pictures of a boy that she worked with and I curiously asked to see it. It was unbelievable, but it was a photo of a boy I had shoot last summer. He was really quite, but it was so special. I will never forget before I left for the day I went over to say bye and let him know I would get him some pictures that we had taken. He asked if I would print some for his mom and I said I would and at that moment, he reached out and gave me a huge hug. It was at that moment I knew I was making a difference to him. I don't always feel like I can or do actually do a lot to help others, but getting to use my love of photography to help these kids means the world to me.
This past year I also took photos in Columbia at the zoo. Jakaar was deaf, but had a hearing aid. His foster mom realized half way through the it wasn't on even though he said it was, so he hadn't heard anything we had been saying, just shaking his head yes to everything! He had this huge smile from the moment he walked up and I was hooked. We journeyed around the zoo and seeing him experience the animals was priceless. That day I also had two brothers who at first were a little unsure of things. I gave them the zoo map and asked them where they wanted to go. They picked the train. The volunteer with us asked if we were allowed to let them ride and I asked her, "what are they going to do, fire me?" They loved the train and we continued our trek through the zoo. I got some great pictures of them and then they helped me and took pictures as well as come up with their own poses! That day I have two others girls that rounded out whole I shoot.
I can't post the photos, but you can check them out at scheargallery.com and click on Galleries.
In Region II, you can see Hadrian Zyanvious and Jakaar, in the first panel of photos (center bottom and right bottom) and in the third panel of photos, Brittany is the left photo in the middle.
In Region IV Brandy is the top left on the first panel of photos, Danny and Darius are center left on the second panel of photos and Jaivon and RaiQuawn are the far right on the same row. They are brothers to Jerone and Jimmy on the next panel top left. In the next panel is Tereka and Rayquan that are the brother and sister I mentioned from last year and Tyre is the boy I mentioned that my friend's roommate was working with (middle row far left). As you look through, the photos with the read heart logo mean the children now have families!
UPDATE!!!
Recently I learned that two of the boys I got to photograph found a home! This project is so special to me and these kids deserve the best.
Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Making up for lost time
Okay, so the last few weeks have flown by. Lots of work has begun to be due and most of that is group work! So let me catch you up. Of course, it is football season and although we had a rough start, we had a great win again number 4 ranked Ole Miss (though I am not sure how they were 4 because they were bad to say the least). Either way it was an amazing game.
Two weeks ago it was a quick road trip to Atlanta to see The Color Purple. I had no real expectations about the show. Fantasia was reprising her role from Broadway and it was an excuse to see a show. It was torrential downpours in the hour leading up to the show, so we sloshed in and were a little wet to say the least. They didn't hold the start time, so the must have sat more than 150 after the show started, some up to 45 mins late! I know that sometimes things are out of your control, weather being one of them, but don't come in with a soda and pop corn and block my view. To say the least, the show was brilliant. It exceeded any expectations I had and the entire cast was ridiculously talented. I think Sophie was my favorite with her "Hell Nos" and (if you haven't seen it don't read this) when the sister's are reunited at the end, it is a truly magical moment.
There were a few awkward moments where it felt weird being the minority. This is only the second time I have ever felt like the minority, the first being two summers ago in Germany when we were at the Bavarian Film Studio and we had to go on the English language tour, which was walking instead of riding on the cool train because that was for German only.
This past weekend after the Thursday night football game, it was off to the mountain house. So Ashley and I headed up Friday night, stopped to grab P.F. Chang's (which is one of my all-time favorites) and see Fame. I will have to say I was disappointed in the movie. If you haven't seen it, just YouTube the commercials and you will be set. Saturday morning Jordan, Cole and Laura drove up to meet us. We were planning on going hiking and to the corn maze, but the rainy weather stopped us for going on with our plan. So we changed things up, grabbed lunch at Jukebox Junction, a must eat stop and then hung out the house and watched more college football games on TV than I have seen in my whole life! I am looking forward to our game against Kentucky because they are awful, but we have no change against Florida and Alabama. Thoughts might be slaughters.
This is all for now. Headed to bed. As Tigger would say TTFN (ta ta for now).
Where was my head! I almost left out the most dramatic part of the weekend. Saturday night Laura made an amazing dinner and then we played apples to apples and made smore in the fire the we made. Yes you heard me right, we started a fire from wood! So it rained all Saturday, but Sunday was beautiful. We had breakfast at my grandparents house, which was my favorite sausage gravy and biscuits and then went back to the house to plan to the day. Laura had homework, so the rest of us decided to head to the Blue Ridge Parkway to hike and see nature (we were in the mtns) and then we would come back, get Laura and got the corn maze. From there, they would head home and Ashley and I would head to my cousin's third birthday at Chuck e Cheese (which I call chunk e cheese) and then drive back.
It takes 24 miles to get the parkway. We actually have a map, but I am directionally challenge, so one of the cohorts has taken over than task. We drive past a couple overlooks, stop to look at a couple overlooks then finally decided on hiking Graveyard Fields after we couldn't find the waterfall trail we wanted. I had actually hiked this last year and upper falls at the end were pretty disappointing, but with all the rain, we were thinking they might be better. It was a pretty muddy hike, but we had lots of fun and were making fun of Tebow (who got the crap knocked out of him in the Saturday game). It was earlier and we really didn't pass but maybe 4 or 5 people on our hour trip to the top. The falls were pretty cool and we gots lots of pictures. I got my sneakers soaked trying to climb to the other side to get a better picture on the rock and then slide and got my shorts soaked too. Luckily they dried pretty quickly in the sun. We had made it all the way back and were joking about people getting hurt. We are probably 20 minutes from being back in the parking lot when Jordan jumps funny off this dock-like ramp (they had wooden planks like a dock over some of the fields, probably like 5 inches off the ground). On her was off she must have twisted her ankle and she falls to the ground landing on her left side (which is why we figure she twisted her right foot pushing off, sort of jumping the puddle). I was right beside her, having gone through the grass to get around the mud. Ashley and Cole were behind us and at first we thought she was laughing, but we soon realized that was not the case. She had done something to her ankle, she thought it was broken and it had swollen really bad. She immediately freaked out and it took us a while to get her calmed down.
Finally, we were able to get her up and hoping, working to get her back to the car. It was a slow trek and I soon realized she wouldn't make it the rest of they way. The path was really narrow in places, we still had about five steep flights of stairs, a bridge over rocks and a river and a very steep end paved with asphalt before we would be at the parking lot. Cole and Ashley were helping her hop, I wasn't of much use there because I am shorter than her by a bit! I decided to run ahead and called 911. First it took a while to get signal, remember were in the mountains. It was an interesting call because they asked me what county I was in and I didn't know. I knew where we were on the parkway, but not the county. They finally figured it out and transferred me. The guy I got then asked what happen and then asked me if we had overnight gear. I then told him that we didn't and what was he implying by this. If they couldn't come we were still getting her off the mountain that afternoon. We went on like this for a while and then he finally dispatched people.
What you must realize about the mountains is that they don't have people sitting at fire stations waiting to come. Instead they have people with pagers who get called in when something happens, thus it took 45 minutes before any one got there. In the mean time, Cole and Ashley are helping her hop along and I finally get Cole on the phone to let him know that help is on the way. The 911 operator called me back and told me that the emt was arriving. This included a 4 year old who came with his grandmother. He was a great motivator! So off me and this emt woman go running back down the path to find where they were. They had actually gotten pretty far and were waiting for us to get there. The woman examined her foot and put a splint on it. They then brought in a more rugged version of a gurney and got Jordan loaded up. In the mean time, they have put up fire line do not cross tape between two trees to stop other hikers. It felt very official.
The hike back to the parking lot was a bit of a struggle. The stairs were narrow and tall. The hand Jordan's head below her feet for that part, and she gets really motion sick, so I wasn't sure how well that would go. For the asphalt part, they had a wheel they put on the bottom of the cart to push her up more smoothly and then the wheel came off the take her up the last flight of stairs. We joked that she was discouraging others from hiking after they saw her being carried off the mountain! They got her loaded into the ambulance and Cole got in the front to ride with her. It took them almost an hour to get the hospital and the driver talked to Cole about everything from football and the infrastructure of bridges and tunnels. They had been sent to the hospital in Asheville because the Haywood Hospital didn't have an obstetrician to treat broken bones, which was a little weird. Ashley and I meet Cole at the hospital and we waited to see what the doctor would say.
I was with Jordan when the doctor finally came and before he even looked at her foot he said that he had seen this a thousand times and then she just had a sprain. He then looked at her foot and said that her swelling was a little higher than the normal sprain, so he had it x-rayed. It ended up that it was just a severe sprain, which was good news. In the mean time, we were all starving because we hadn't had lunch at it was 5 (she fell around noon), so we had a picnic in the waiting room. It was more like a circus: a prisoner, a homeless man, this girl who weighted upwards of four hundred pounds and would have easily taken Cole out for a brownie. Luckily Jordan got her cast and we were all able to get on the road home!
Two weeks ago it was a quick road trip to Atlanta to see The Color Purple. I had no real expectations about the show. Fantasia was reprising her role from Broadway and it was an excuse to see a show. It was torrential downpours in the hour leading up to the show, so we sloshed in and were a little wet to say the least. They didn't hold the start time, so the must have sat more than 150 after the show started, some up to 45 mins late! I know that sometimes things are out of your control, weather being one of them, but don't come in with a soda and pop corn and block my view. To say the least, the show was brilliant. It exceeded any expectations I had and the entire cast was ridiculously talented. I think Sophie was my favorite with her "Hell Nos" and (if you haven't seen it don't read this) when the sister's are reunited at the end, it is a truly magical moment.
There were a few awkward moments where it felt weird being the minority. This is only the second time I have ever felt like the minority, the first being two summers ago in Germany when we were at the Bavarian Film Studio and we had to go on the English language tour, which was walking instead of riding on the cool train because that was for German only.
This past weekend after the Thursday night football game, it was off to the mountain house. So Ashley and I headed up Friday night, stopped to grab P.F. Chang's (which is one of my all-time favorites) and see Fame. I will have to say I was disappointed in the movie. If you haven't seen it, just YouTube the commercials and you will be set. Saturday morning Jordan, Cole and Laura drove up to meet us. We were planning on going hiking and to the corn maze, but the rainy weather stopped us for going on with our plan. So we changed things up, grabbed lunch at Jukebox Junction, a must eat stop and then hung out the house and watched more college football games on TV than I have seen in my whole life! I am looking forward to our game against Kentucky because they are awful, but we have no change against Florida and Alabama. Thoughts might be slaughters.
This is all for now. Headed to bed. As Tigger would say TTFN (ta ta for now).
Where was my head! I almost left out the most dramatic part of the weekend. Saturday night Laura made an amazing dinner and then we played apples to apples and made smore in the fire the we made. Yes you heard me right, we started a fire from wood! So it rained all Saturday, but Sunday was beautiful. We had breakfast at my grandparents house, which was my favorite sausage gravy and biscuits and then went back to the house to plan to the day. Laura had homework, so the rest of us decided to head to the Blue Ridge Parkway to hike and see nature (we were in the mtns) and then we would come back, get Laura and got the corn maze. From there, they would head home and Ashley and I would head to my cousin's third birthday at Chuck e Cheese (which I call chunk e cheese) and then drive back.
It takes 24 miles to get the parkway. We actually have a map, but I am directionally challenge, so one of the cohorts has taken over than task. We drive past a couple overlooks, stop to look at a couple overlooks then finally decided on hiking Graveyard Fields after we couldn't find the waterfall trail we wanted. I had actually hiked this last year and upper falls at the end were pretty disappointing, but with all the rain, we were thinking they might be better. It was a pretty muddy hike, but we had lots of fun and were making fun of Tebow (who got the crap knocked out of him in the Saturday game). It was earlier and we really didn't pass but maybe 4 or 5 people on our hour trip to the top. The falls were pretty cool and we gots lots of pictures. I got my sneakers soaked trying to climb to the other side to get a better picture on the rock and then slide and got my shorts soaked too. Luckily they dried pretty quickly in the sun. We had made it all the way back and were joking about people getting hurt. We are probably 20 minutes from being back in the parking lot when Jordan jumps funny off this dock-like ramp (they had wooden planks like a dock over some of the fields, probably like 5 inches off the ground). On her was off she must have twisted her ankle and she falls to the ground landing on her left side (which is why we figure she twisted her right foot pushing off, sort of jumping the puddle). I was right beside her, having gone through the grass to get around the mud. Ashley and Cole were behind us and at first we thought she was laughing, but we soon realized that was not the case. She had done something to her ankle, she thought it was broken and it had swollen really bad. She immediately freaked out and it took us a while to get her calmed down.
Finally, we were able to get her up and hoping, working to get her back to the car. It was a slow trek and I soon realized she wouldn't make it the rest of they way. The path was really narrow in places, we still had about five steep flights of stairs, a bridge over rocks and a river and a very steep end paved with asphalt before we would be at the parking lot. Cole and Ashley were helping her hop, I wasn't of much use there because I am shorter than her by a bit! I decided to run ahead and called 911. First it took a while to get signal, remember were in the mountains. It was an interesting call because they asked me what county I was in and I didn't know. I knew where we were on the parkway, but not the county. They finally figured it out and transferred me. The guy I got then asked what happen and then asked me if we had overnight gear. I then told him that we didn't and what was he implying by this. If they couldn't come we were still getting her off the mountain that afternoon. We went on like this for a while and then he finally dispatched people.
What you must realize about the mountains is that they don't have people sitting at fire stations waiting to come. Instead they have people with pagers who get called in when something happens, thus it took 45 minutes before any one got there. In the mean time, Cole and Ashley are helping her hop along and I finally get Cole on the phone to let him know that help is on the way. The 911 operator called me back and told me that the emt was arriving. This included a 4 year old who came with his grandmother. He was a great motivator! So off me and this emt woman go running back down the path to find where they were. They had actually gotten pretty far and were waiting for us to get there. The woman examined her foot and put a splint on it. They then brought in a more rugged version of a gurney and got Jordan loaded up. In the mean time, they have put up fire line do not cross tape between two trees to stop other hikers. It felt very official.
The hike back to the parking lot was a bit of a struggle. The stairs were narrow and tall. The hand Jordan's head below her feet for that part, and she gets really motion sick, so I wasn't sure how well that would go. For the asphalt part, they had a wheel they put on the bottom of the cart to push her up more smoothly and then the wheel came off the take her up the last flight of stairs. We joked that she was discouraging others from hiking after they saw her being carried off the mountain! They got her loaded into the ambulance and Cole got in the front to ride with her. It took them almost an hour to get the hospital and the driver talked to Cole about everything from football and the infrastructure of bridges and tunnels. They had been sent to the hospital in Asheville because the Haywood Hospital didn't have an obstetrician to treat broken bones, which was a little weird. Ashley and I meet Cole at the hospital and we waited to see what the doctor would say.
I was with Jordan when the doctor finally came and before he even looked at her foot he said that he had seen this a thousand times and then she just had a sprain. He then looked at her foot and said that her swelling was a little higher than the normal sprain, so he had it x-rayed. It ended up that it was just a severe sprain, which was good news. In the mean time, we were all starving because we hadn't had lunch at it was 5 (she fell around noon), so we had a picnic in the waiting room. It was more like a circus: a prisoner, a homeless man, this girl who weighted upwards of four hundred pounds and would have easily taken Cole out for a brownie. Luckily Jordan got her cast and we were all able to get on the road home!
Sunday, September 13, 2009
A Whole Lot of 'Glee'
To be entirely honest, I didn't watch the pilot episode until early August. Until this summer when Rachel mentioned if I had seen the show, I really hadn't heard about it. So, in short it is the reintroduction of the glee club in an Ohio high school while the cheer leading coach, football coach and other students work to bring down the group of, well, not so popular kids. When you explain it, it sounds like a bore, but it is the funniest thing I have ever seen. The cast is so talented and you are instantly captivated by the characters. We now have a group that gets together on Wednesday to watch So You Think You Can Dance and Glee. If you haven't seen the show, check out the extended preview. I guarantee it will make you a GLEEk!
What the show has also given me is a topic for my case study in Integrated Communications Principles class. What makes this show so unique too is their method of advertising and use of social and online media to build awareness and hype for the show. What is cool about my masters work is that we get to choose areas that interest us and then do our projects from that. So far this semester i have gotten to read a book about the making of the Broadway musical Big and as I mentioned, a case study on Glee. It certainly makes the work a lot easier and more interesting.
What the show has also given me is a topic for my case study in Integrated Communications Principles class. What makes this show so unique too is their method of advertising and use of social and online media to build awareness and hype for the show. What is cool about my masters work is that we get to choose areas that interest us and then do our projects from that. So far this semester i have gotten to read a book about the making of the Broadway musical Big and as I mentioned, a case study on Glee. It certainly makes the work a lot easier and more interesting.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Complete Randomness
I have two things I have been thinking about, so here they are:
1. I am so ridiculously excited about Carolina football starting this Thursday night. Sadly the first two games are away, but soon enough we will have a home game. Looking back, I couldn't tell you where or how my family became Gamecock fans. Neither of my parents went to USC, but nonetheless we starting coming to games a few years before I applied and I am proud to say that I have one missed one home game in four years! There is nothing like tailgating with 70,000 people cheering on the same team. Though we are not always winners, there is still fun to be had. We have a cockaboose, which is a train car (there are 23 behind the stadium, so close you can throw a football and hit it- it's been tested) that was hollowed out and set up for one good tailgate. Kitchen with fridge and sink, toilet and shower and space for a sofa and tv inside. Upstairs is a deck that can have a tv with plenty of seating and a awning to shade the heat. It is the coolest spot to watch people, the game. I love it and am so excited. Wish us luck this season!
2. I have been watching Freedom Writers the I dvred and have been thinking that during my lifetime, I want to do something that really make a difference. I have been so fortunate: amazing parents, the best group of friends, great mentors and teachers, a wonderful childhood and a family that introduced me to so many things like theatre and dance and art. In the end I don't think it matters how much you make or the actually possessions you have, but rather the difference you can make in the world. I am not sure what or how I am going to do it, but keep posted because eventually I will find my "Purpose." (had to add the Avenue Q reference)
1. I am so ridiculously excited about Carolina football starting this Thursday night. Sadly the first two games are away, but soon enough we will have a home game. Looking back, I couldn't tell you where or how my family became Gamecock fans. Neither of my parents went to USC, but nonetheless we starting coming to games a few years before I applied and I am proud to say that I have one missed one home game in four years! There is nothing like tailgating with 70,000 people cheering on the same team. Though we are not always winners, there is still fun to be had. We have a cockaboose, which is a train car (there are 23 behind the stadium, so close you can throw a football and hit it- it's been tested) that was hollowed out and set up for one good tailgate. Kitchen with fridge and sink, toilet and shower and space for a sofa and tv inside. Upstairs is a deck that can have a tv with plenty of seating and a awning to shade the heat. It is the coolest spot to watch people, the game. I love it and am so excited. Wish us luck this season!
2. I have been watching Freedom Writers the I dvred and have been thinking that during my lifetime, I want to do something that really make a difference. I have been so fortunate: amazing parents, the best group of friends, great mentors and teachers, a wonderful childhood and a family that introduced me to so many things like theatre and dance and art. In the end I don't think it matters how much you make or the actually possessions you have, but rather the difference you can make in the world. I am not sure what or how I am going to do it, but keep posted because eventually I will find my "Purpose." (had to add the Avenue Q reference)
"Story of Our Lives"
The assignment for our U101 kids was to make a lifeline to show us abou their lives and what was important to them. Although some of them thought the assignment was sort of lame, what we all learned about each other was way more than I expected and I think they would agree.
First the class did a great job and some of the timelines were so creative. One of the girls in class helped others draw there timelines and there was such a sense of teamwork in the projects. What I think surprised everyone the most was how much they all have in common. It is also surprising what students choose to share. From travel experiences to state championships in sports, getting an Eagle Scout Badge to signing to play basketball for the Gamecocks to getting a part in the spring opera. Probably the hardest thing was a student who shared about the death of her father, but on the day her father died her mom found out she was cancer free. This reminded me of a student from last years class who shared that her mom missed her flight one morning. Just so happened that it was 9/11 and she was flying out of Washington. It is a crazy world we live in and so much of what happens seems to make no sense.
Our class is sort of split between the kids who live in the same dorm and those who don't. Hopefully in the coming weeks we will work on becoming one big family.
First the class did a great job and some of the timelines were so creative. One of the girls in class helped others draw there timelines and there was such a sense of teamwork in the projects. What I think surprised everyone the most was how much they all have in common. It is also surprising what students choose to share. From travel experiences to state championships in sports, getting an Eagle Scout Badge to signing to play basketball for the Gamecocks to getting a part in the spring opera. Probably the hardest thing was a student who shared about the death of her father, but on the day her father died her mom found out she was cancer free. This reminded me of a student from last years class who shared that her mom missed her flight one morning. Just so happened that it was 9/11 and she was flying out of Washington. It is a crazy world we live in and so much of what happens seems to make no sense.
Our class is sort of split between the kids who live in the same dorm and those who don't. Hopefully in the coming weeks we will work on becoming one big family.
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