PAVEing a Blog

I just read this and wanted to add this into my post, it makes so much sense.  I have another blog post that will be forthcoming as well 🙂

I have also seen that now a days, there seem to be many “envious” people out there, which I guess the common term today is “haters”. I learned a long time ago that envy and jealousy are rooted from insecurities that that individual may have and some of these insecurities can sometimes be very deep seeded from adolescence or even childhood. As a result, some of these people grow up and they tend to “hate” those around them who have worked hard to become happy with themselves. I recently had to walk away from a “friend” whom I knew for almost 18 years. Met him in 1995 and lost touch with him after he graduated in 1998. Saw him for one semester in 2000 and then lost touch and in 2006, found a number for a relative of his and thought I would try and track him down. Got in touch with him in 2006 when he was out in the southwest on a job. 

As long as I have known this person, even back to 1995, he would always try to pick faults and flaws with people that would befriend him in college at the time and it was only recently that I learned that this “ex friend” may suffer from “Superiority Complex”, which is a real psychological disorder. These people often make themselves feel superior around their friends but trying to put them down constantly and pick flaws and always emphasizing that they are right and everyone else is wrong. Eventually, their friends around them may start to believe the things that this person says and it starts to get them down about their own self confidence.

It happened to me with this “ex friend” and for 2 years I endured it, not knowing that this was a real disorder at the time. I did everything to help this “friend”…and even established boundaries, but those boundaries would be broken down repeatedly over and over again. So, recently, I “called out” this “friend” on some of the flaws of mines that he would pick on (such as me still being single in my late 30s and currently not having a girlfriend) and when I “challenged him” and told him that friends help build one another instead of putting them down and using the excuse that they are being honest with them….he then got very angry and suddenly cut off his friendship with me for good…just like that. 

I was initially quite “angry” at this “ex friend” for treating me the way he did the past two years, BUT after cooling down and taking the time to think about it, I realize now that people with this disorder can not see that how they are behaving is not acceptable behavior when it comes to making and keeping friends. Not surprisingly, he had ZERO friends. People tried to befriend him when we were young, but he would pick flaws with them and they would stop hanging out with him.

I actually NOW feel very sorry for this “ex friend” in that he was always quite “anti social” when I first met him in college when I was in my very early 20s, and he never went out to parties or clubs and was always a bit of a “loner” and always seemed to complain that he disliked the city atmosphere, as he was from a very rural part of the state. He disliked his college years quite alot and I feel sad for him, because college is often where you meet some of the best friends in life and I, like many others, have been fortunate to make some great friends who are like family to me and we all still let our hair down and party it up like old times, despite the life event changes in our lives after college and despite where we may geographically be located.

It was for the best, as now, my life has suddenly gotten MUCH better these past few days and I do feel happier with myself without this “friend” in my life anymore. 

Just wanted to share, but this poster is sort of how I felt from this “ex friend’s” constantly picking at me.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=168728963241267&set=a.107875849326579.10618.107856392661858&type=1&theater

Victory, venereal, Valentine’s !  All three I have referred to by friends on this February the 14th! 

This is my take on it:

From Facebook: “Thoughts on Valentine’s Day – I am treating myself to an awesome dinner, an awesome dessert and a film – going to try and make others feel better about not being with anyone – I always feel bad for those that feel like they HAVE to be with someone – I am MUCH happier without the baggage, and alot of people that are single – are MUCH happier! 🙂 Valentine’s Day is about the people you love anyway, and not talking JUST romantic relationships, LOL….”

I still agree!  I look forward to enjoying the silence and peacefulness of a relationship I maintain with some killer students who have managed to support me through many years, and an awesome family, and awesome gathering of friends that do all from help me MOVE, to relocate, to advice, to just put up with my ramblings and complaints, wow. – who needs a significant other when I have significant others!  🙂  

I find out today at ABC Hospital if the tonsils come out…I am still mourning the loss of Whitney Houston…when interviewed by Barbara Walters, she was asked, “What is your worst devil?”  She point blankedly said, “Me.”  Her honesty during that interview was amazing, and she did say, “I haven’t done anything I never wanted to do, I am my best friend and my worst enemy.”  She did not hide behind the shroud of celebrity status, and point blank was honest about her downfalls, as well as her life in general.  I love her when she had so many hits, and her voice could silence a room.  If many of us could show the compassion and honesty she did, everyone would feel loved on Valentine’s Day!

Welcome back Alyssa Casey from CHINA!  YEAH!  Your pictures were amazing and you sounded like you loved the experience.

I am excited for March 13th – 18th when we head for NEW YORK!  WOOO HOOOO!  We get to meet the architect of the New York Memorial as he went to ASF here in Mexico City, and we will interview him, and close the 6 year project we have done with taking students to New York, and wow, I am excited.  This will be an amazing account of the trek we have done over a 6-7 year period.  Oh yeah, we will tour the United Nations’ building, see a broadway show, and put together our lit magazine at Columbia University with some of the BEST students in Mexico, and it is my birthday while there!  Speaking of birthdays, put together something AWESOME for my Mom for hers February 5th, I knows she thought I forgot, I am just late as usual, but when she sees this, it will ROCK!

Let’s see, March 28th is the National Writing Project meeting in Washington D.C, I hope I can go there, and then I run in honor of my Dad’s birthday in the April 01 Cherry Blossom Festival in D.C. 10 miles to think of all the gifts he had given me!  I get to see my great PAVE students from Seaford there, my cousins, and pick up my truck, and drive to Mexico to end my Spring Break, I am excited as this will be FUN!  🙂  Another adventure….then…

The Seaford Runa thon is on!  May kicks off the Dr Betts and Vince Morris 5k at Chapel, I am so there and way excited to be going!  🙂  This is dear to my heart just as Vince and Dr Betts and their whole family were, a fitting way to celebrate Mother’s Day and coming back to see my Mom!

Wow, do I dare mention the video that our awesome and adorable, as she herself put it, Mary made for the internet and our ASF school?  Look on Utube under “ASF How to check out a laptop and you will see plenty!  She did a great job!  🙂  

Tyler Meding’s concert for St. Jude’s, talking with Seaford students and helping them with grants, scholarships every night, progressing and getting all A’s in my Mansfield Library/technology course, lagging in my Spanish and I need to pick the slack up there…and wondering…are my tonsils getting yanked?  Ah. Valentine’s Day…just remember, the day was named after St. Valentine, performed marriages when Claudia outlawed marriage thinking all single men made better soldiers.  As his love visited him in jail, jailed for his defiance, he signed his last letter, “From your Valentine.”

Esther Howland began selling the FIRST hand written Valentine’s back in, what, the 1840’s?  No way!  WAAAAAY!   🙂  1 BILLION cards are sent on Valentine’s Day,(2.6 billion on Christmas) with 85 % of them bought by women, if you can believe that…:)  (yes, head nodding)….:

I decided to put no pics, no links today, and say, make sure you make someone else feel the love of Valentine’s Day…:)  Amore!

Okay, so in talking with some new individuals coming, I managed to scrape together the list of items I always manage to forget – but things I wish I would have brought….:)

So here they are:
In place of a small heater, as the morns and nights can get chilly, if I would have brought 2-3 more blankets, flannel sheets, maybe a comforter, wow, much better! I did not get a heater and am glad, as the electric is so cheap without one, and with the blanket and comforter I bought her, (total maybe, 150.00 USD), I could have saved even that with just bringing blankets and comforter.

I would suggest bringing a good set of sheets, maybe 2 – that you like, you can get any mattress you want here, so don’t worry about that. I had tons of good sheets, even flannel, and wished I would have brought them!

Curtains – YES! Even though I found places that you can get fabric for dirt cheap, it would have been MUCH easier to bring curtains, AND the rings instead of the curtain rod kind, that way you can use any curtains whether you need a curtain rod or you need rings that hang the curtains.

SHOES – OH MYGOSH – I would stock up on at least 2 good running shoes, then 2 good pair of comfy shoes for non running/walking, just the choices here are slim and they do not last as long as good shoes I liked in the U.S. One of my biggest forgets I wish I would not have!

A small radio/alarm, dock for ipod radio if you can. Anything electronic is expensive, this would have solved my radio, alarm clock, etc all in one!

Camera, I would bring two, just in case…:)

hard drive storage – you will want LOTS of pictures, grab an external drive in the states to store all your info on safely, and format it for a MAC and PC, if you use PC, since the school here is all MAC, I had files on my PC, I should have formatted my hard drive for a PC AND a Mac.

Items to drill into cement walls, I could have used a small drill to drill my paintings, frames, etc into the cement walls, as that is pretty dominant here.

Sweatpants, running shorts, yes, I should have brought those!

Come to think of it, this sounds strange, but I would have liked it. I wish I would have grabbed an digital audio recorder, those small, fit in your hand recorders that turn on when voice is heard. WOW, I could have carried that around with me and picked up on phrases around me and compared them to the Spanish I was learning.

I am glad I brought/had shipped my scarf, gloves, and hat – not winter here, but cold enough in the AM and evening when I first get that they make me comfortable.

If you want to tour places, a good pair of cross training boots/walking shoes that could be versatile enough for both could not have hurt.

Hmmmm, these things would have been great! 🙂 Hindsight is 20/20 – mine is usually 20/50, lol. 🙂

Oh, this is very strange but wow how useful. The SWIFFER with the wipes that come with them. This would have been the BEST mop (it folds up) and eliminates a bucket, and would be hands down, the BEST thing I could have gotten for cleaning, the mops here, um, well, no. Get a Swiffer, bring it, you will be a happy person. Trust me.

Monday February 6th…
Hmm, what trouble can I get in today…stay tuned!

Info on Mexican Constitutional Day

Okay, so I led a pretty boring life this day, SERIOUSLY! 🙂 I DID! Sheesh, I DID! I got my tired, glad to sleep in behind out and ran the length from my house to Michocan and Amsterdam, then saw at the edge of Parque Mexico a series of weight machines. I first ran about 3 times around the park, then I went to the stepper machine, and the chest press. By this time I began to fill my muscles and I thought, wow, I am felling this already? lol….it was a good workout day. I came home, feeling excellent, but tired, and layed into my graduate work all day, and made some great strides! 🙂

It is awesome to be at home, and just enjoy the quiet sometimes! So….yes, a good day and I managed to stay out of trouble! 🙂
What did you expect? Me to go tight rope walking or something?! 🙂

As I go through the day, there are myriads of facts I feel I have left out in my blog brain, my blog here. So – ket me try to clear some of those cobwebs out, and answer questions alot of people have!

What is Mexico like?
I think I have covered about 1/3 of that so far in 6 months of being here (HOLY COW, ALREADY), yet some things to note:

The Metro is unbelievably clean – maintenance workers are ALWAYS mopping, peeling gum off the floors, mopping the metro cars, that is awesome and just, well, I didn’t expect that!

The mornings crack me up, EVERYONE is running to work, yet, we all pretty much get to thew same place at the same time due to the number of people around us.

The numbers of people are amazing, I remember walking down Broadway and seeing thousands of people in streams, there is more here, it is simply amazing to be in crowds like that.

Again, food is awesome, in places like anywhere, you have to pick and choose, violence is still a threat as much as say New York, drugs are in the north more than here, but you still need to be on guard as in any large city.

Opportunity, my yes, there are opportunities to take advantage of if someone is willing to be energetic and creative enough.

Updates
I added a new page on here for runners, check it out! As well as adding new books to the review page, I will be adding new Educational links to that page.

I am back into running, and have signed up for two races within the next month, as well as The Cherry Blossom 10miler on April 1st. The last time I ran a race for on/near my Dad’s birthday, I won trophy in my age group. I hope to take that pressure and do something good with it!

The list of restaurants is growing, I need to add a section for outside the U.S eventually, but my goal is 100 restaurants within a year, it has been 6 months and been about 30, so not sure that is possible, but we will get close.

Grad school is awesome, I am determined to get all A’s in three courses this semester, and get ready for the Fall. I want to be certified as a Flat Classroom Teacher, Apple Distinguished teacher, and be a member of ALA, NCTE, and a few other organizations that will involve my advocacy for education and technology used in a practical sense to a higher level.

Diet – I have noticed improvement in my running with better diet, yet, my one vice is I have been getting 1-2 tortas every day, and I run better. I am not sure on that connection, my hunger mystifies me. I ran that 3 miler yesterday, and chowed through a whole box of Special K in one sitting, yep, the whole box, not even realizing it. It was a healthy cereal, but the more I run, my appetite gets ravenous. If it helps my performance and allows me to remain thin, all for it, lol.

Looks like 2 saved cats, Dewey and Decimal are doing awesome, will send pics soon, lol.

When am I returning to the states?
Hmmm, I am working the Cherry Blossom Festival over Spring Break, might be traveling to see Fabricia on my way back home to Mexico, she is in Rio. I plan hopefully catching the National Writing Project Spring Meeting in D.C a few days before where I get to meet Congressmen and state representatives, then meet staff at the Cherry Blossom fest before I run in the 10 miler April 1st. After that, I was thinking of returning to DE to participate in the Vince Morris and Dr Bett’s 5k in May 12th to kick off the Seaford Run a Thon! That should let me see what my plans will be for having a place in DE=, maybe, each summer…but working at the boardwalk and doing the beach deal sounds, well, kind of nice! 🙂

Alright, Superbowl day, I am rooting for the Giants, looking forward to the commercials, and look to get 2 weeks ahead in my grad classes today! Thank goodness for Monday off! 🙂

By the way, thanks for being supporters to my blog, anytime you have comments or can add to books you’ve read, running advice, etc, I’d love comments too! Your faithful readingship has made this a success! Thanks so much!

🙂

Dia “de la Candelaria”

Okay, so this is the deal, on January 6th, kids exchange gifts, the wisemen are celebrated for Christmas. However, on this date, it is tradition to eat the “Rosca de Reyes” – a fruit cake like roll and inside, oh yes, if you are eating this and come across the baby doll, then YOU are responsible for making the tamales to serve on today – Dia “de la Candelaria!” Cool eh! 🙂

I thought this was important to explain 🙂

ALSO – let me say how amazing seeing the Monarch Butterflies was in Almomoloa –

It was a HIKE, but the air was so much cleaner than I felt when running in the Roma area, it was amazing. Thousands, I mean THOUSANDS of butterflies, and you could hear them! 🙂 Amazing! 🙂

I always read about the migration, and it takes three full years of renewal of young butterflies starting the whole migration route back again. It was heartbreaking to see so many n the ground, dying, etc, but made me realize if these are somewhat able to be regenerated, what about all the ecosystems that are NOT? It brings a sense of peace and what needs to be done for the younger generations!

and what the heck, one more?

Afterwards we went to an awesome restaurant, buffet style,Loved the name!

(It is named after three volcanoes here)

AND the KILLER swingset! 🙂 Literally!

then we toured an awesome town! Valle de Bravo!

and

Let’s see, exciting things on the Horizon, there is a 5k here February 12th, 2012, called the Kardias run, at Kardias.org for a great cause, I am psyched!

Then March 11th – called the Tune Up Condesa Pepsico, 10 miler baby, so these will help me with the 10 miler for The Cherry Blossom Festival! YEAH!

I am talking with a teacher that Skypes with classes in South Africa, who DESPERATELY need computers, so I am hoping I can get more teachers and students involved in the P2PU grant writing project, and maybe we can help them?

Irony at its finest…

A week ago I should have posted, I know, I know…but 2 great things to report in two weeks, can you beat it?

This week turned out to be a great experience of food as well as last night. I am really liking the tutoring gig, as I mentioned before, AnaPaulo and Andrés are awesome students, they make the end of the week and the beginning of the week quite pleasurable – and we get a lot down and done in an hour and a half session, while having fun, what more could you ask?

Putting the final touches on the New York trip for the students to finish the literary magazine, all of us can begin to feel the excitement!

Before we start the news of the week, let me say, Alianza (last Friday’s restaurant) was a GREAT restaurant to hide away and catch up with friends, and enjoy a good, filling, dinner! (The coffee is gooooood too!) Check out the review on the restaurants page.

Speaking of irony, often I hear of these places and find them, but have no idea where they are, (there is a story on this, later on for this Friday!). The menu, which I put on the restaurant section of this blog, you will see, is VERY reasonable, and ohmygosh, the burger was DELICIOUS – it was VERY large and VERY good! Then though we chatted forever, the manager was very accommodating, friendly, and inviting in everything from helping us understand the menu to letting us chat the night away. It was cool that he had tennis on the television and that he loved tennis! From the coffee, to the main meal, to the dessert, this was a great overall experience! Nestled in a small, out of the way location, the atmosphere was VERY conducive to friends and a relaxing dinner and night.

This week there were a lot of substitutes out, and Elaine and I volunteered to teach classes and fill in. Turns out Moct (yes, his name is actually Moctezuma!), and even Gabriela too!, all of us substituted to help out the shortages. I found out Karen Herschleb’s class was covering Lord of the Flies, so I thought it might be interesting to create a Wiki where the students could put their answers, and then Ms. Herschleb could use it later with her classes! Would we be able to do this in two days?! Yes! We did the lab and laptop, and even though I was learning alot as we went. I did get tangled in not having the students create their own passwords at first, and this did cause some students to save over other students’ work on the table in the Wiki….:( However, come Wednesday, we had a full-fledged 2 pages per period Wiki, and all looked great! Amazing! Yes, the technology did not work put perfectly, but working through the assignment with the students helped me, and what was it like to be in the classroom again. WOW!; I had that same exhausted feelings after nonstop advising and consultation on the task at hand, but at the end of Wednesday, it was awesome to know I could still do it!

With a chronic sore throat, slight irritation with ears, I finally headed to a ear/throat/eye specialist, Dr. Delint. Seems as if I just had to …GET MY TONSILS OUT?! WHAT?! I am going to try and have it looked at again, but if this solves the problem of those above mentioned issues (reddish eyes, ear aches, headaches, dizziness, etc, darn, I guess it needs to be done? 🙂

We finally managed to donate the previously weeded library books to
Under the Volcano Books
(6 boxes!) and we hope they can use them! Only to find out, Grant, has come down with Swine Flu, so wishes are for him to get better.

Thursday was a complete conference day, so I was able to do some housekeeping, and Friday YEAH!…FRIDAY! I look back and am quite proud of the tasks we have been able to pull off and are moving into. The initiative to involve classes in Mexico with classes elsewhere virtually, students and adults is quite exciting! Check out out P2PU initiative with students and adults working together, we hope this will lead somewhere else, and would love to have as many interested parties a part of this! Grant writing opportunities – interactive, and across the world? AWESOME idea!

As New York looms closer and closer to the students in my lit Mag, I get more and more excited as well. Additionally, the initiative to involve my students in articles for the school magazine, The Focus, is also quite exciting. After racking my break for ideas possible topics, I thought having our students answer or respond to what makes them feel they are prepared for the world based on their international experience at ASF, and things they do not feel prepared for, all seem to be in the realm of revealing some exciting things. Students range from France, Korea, New York, Mexico, and more, and I think we will get an exciting mix of responses in return. I have to say I am blessed again with some outstanding students, and I have a surprise for them I am brewing when we take them to New York, the chance to….oops, sorry have to wait on that one, since they MIGHT be reading this!, but it does have something to do with SOMEONE and SOME THING in NY and it will BLOW THEIR MINDS! It is so fun thought to be able to joke around with them and laugh, and yes, I am very lucky and blessed to have been given the opportunity to take on these adventures with such a studious and dedicated staff!

Friday! Tutoring, and as usually the two students were hysterical and fun, and we started to look at Great Expectations and The Samurai’s Tale. Also, preparing the format for writing an essay, as well as sentence structure, (I know it is not that exciting, but I want them to pass the ASF entrance tests and be prepared more than the average 7th and 9th grader!)

Finind the menu actually lying on the street, I decided to try it. Coming into Friday night’s restaurant, Deli Ziatto, DELICIOUS! Funny thing is I could not recall where Biajio and Monterrey was and I walked the wrong way on Monterrey, almost three times realizing, wow, the restaurant was 2 blocks shy of my house! I was on the other side of Monterrey almost all evening until I realized – oh, try the other way! AGH! I got my walking in, but as I was on my way, I was thinking, hmmm, I feel better?! Much! I have been running a lot lately, and it is finally starting to click in , and my lungs and breathing FINALLY seem to have gotten used to the running and elements, and of getting ready for the 10 miler in the Cherry Blossom Festival in D.C., April 01 2011. I want to make a good showing!

Looking back, I love the fact that we have 4-5 exciting initiatives of grant writing, technology, and great students doing great things. In the process, Mexico tips her hat to us, and I salute Mexico back with the many exciting things on the horizon. Amid all this, I think how exciting it will be to see all my friends again over the summer and see the changing person I am becoming, relaxed (yeah, get THAT!), able to laugh, look back and cherish the times I had with each of them. I am lucky in many ways, and am grateful for the way my students and friends have gone out on a limb for me so many times, I hope I can do the same for them and be there when they need someone. I carry them around with me everywhere go, and yes, that makes all the difference.

I hope my Mom, family, and friends will see the difference in my when I return, and each day I feel I progress thanks to patience and energy to try new and different things. I keep thinking how strange it will be to come back to Delaware over Spring Break while also coming back over summer, in doing this, it feels all so different and new, yet, I think deep down I will become a better person all around and as a teacher. I am excited about what these young people I have been with will create and accomplish in the next few months. Whatever it is, it will be pretty terrific, you can bet many, many pesos on that!

Whew, okay, I am beating Friday a bit but I am getting a head start! 🙂

Last night, I was asked to go to a literature reading, by fellow colleague Daniel Hamilton poetry writer extraordinaire. I didn’t know what to expect, and I never read anything I ever wrote in front of people. EVER. I have seen it on movies, (Dead Poet’s Society, So I Married an Axe Murderer, Back to School), but um, never wrote for such a night, let alone read for it.
I raced through the day, wondering how it was going to play out, WHEN would I get inspiration, WHAT would I write, I raced home, 5:15, and I had to meet Daniel at 7:15 for the 7:30 start. Hmmm, I sat down and ripped off my impressions in a poem, the way I heard it in my head being read (see? I am a poet and didn’t KNOW it!) By the way, the chain I wear around my neck, my Dad’s? – the necklace broke today, but having been in that moment before, I grabbed it and held onto it, this is important as I will come back to this….

I meet Daniel at the corner coffeeshop off of Parque Mexico, meet his friend, we walk over to the American Legion? No kidding, huge American flag, we go in, and are greeted by the most warm and friendly people EVER – Luis (CHECK his photos out) who served in the military, the organized of this recitation night (Jack Little) – from UK, someone from Canada, all of a sudden people poured in from all corners, a professor here in Mexico from the UK, I mean ALL over, including two people from My school! – lol, and one that went to Slippery Rock…does life never cease to amaze you?

The readings started, and me in my seat sinking lower and lower, thinking, oh myyyyy, what do I have that will work in front of this talented group of people? 🙂 Yet, the support you get from everyone sheering you on, was amazing….you WANTED to read SOMETHING after hearing all of these readings! 🙂 Daniel went up, and read some brilliant pieces about Mexico, Ezra Pound, the experiences he has seen during a walk in park, all amazing. Intermission come, I am asked, do you want to read next? 🙂 (GULP) Yes. I committed!

I turn on my computer as I brought it, and as an impulse, as a reaction to my necklace picking TODAY to fall off, I chose the story I wrote, way back in Mansfield University, during a workshop I attended for being a part of the first National Writing Project – the Endless Mountain Writing Project, since, well, that ring symbolized oh so much, take a read when you get a chance, it’s very personal to me! I worked my way through it, and wow, it took that importance all over again, and choked me up a bit being in Mexico, and all behind in the U.S, but the welcome everyone gave me for that was, AMAZING and warmed me up completely as that is what I intended when I wrote part of myself into that story.The Rings Around Us

I read my second – and I had my confidence from the reassuring group of friends I had just made, and wow, literature, art, word, poetry, PERSONABLE. This amazing event was just that, beyond words.

I loved the fact too, that while many of us did not realize it, the meatloaf, fries, burger, that you could order was maybe the best kept secret of this whole event, EASILY. 🙂 This night was our own moment to take a breath, and share the way we viewed the world. I am so looking forward to February 17th – the next one! For my first time reading publicly, wow, I loved every minute I sweated, stammered, and fretted – only to find everyone open arms to my contributions.

Tonight I participated in my first, (many first’s!) online chat with headphones and microphone, on a program called WIMBA, and it was awesome! I sent several days trying it, could not get it working, and then, I decided to try it on my notebook ACER computer, and Voila! I was late to the discussion, but it worked and I got my first taste of my upcoming Master’s in Ed class with technology and Library Science, and all the classmates were there (well half of the total class members!), it was exciting to hear voices from PA, and all over the U.S. so clearly…
And this weekend! I am actually going to see the butterflies in Valle de Bravo – How exciting to see the migration of the monarchs, after seeing them on television, and never really imagining I would see it live! Way cool…

And to top it all off, in March, we are beginning an free online course on P2PU that allows students and teachers to work together in teams on common projects. I think that is so waaay cool, wow. Able to create grants, learning how to create, find, and implement grants, and we can involve educators and students from all over the world! If you think you know of a group, student, educator, etc interested in this, please check the link out. This will be very exciting!

I look forward to what February brings, January has already been pretty exciting! 🙂

Friday night is the restaurant recommendation –

Alianza Restaurant

Oh, wondering what that second poem was about? Okaaaayyy, here it is..:)

🙂 (Originally was On the edges of Contentment, but the more I looked at it, my writing (groan!) made it look like On, so I changed it to –
One – the edge of contentment