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Rumor Control/Spreading

Psst. Jesse. Law School? What's the scoop? I heard through the Twitter/Facebook grapevine.

Every Flavored Beans

[by Ian & Tina]

Tonight we've been sampling oddly flavored Jelly Bellys that Ian and Marie found in their hunt for gifts to take back to the old country. Flavors we've had so far include baby wipes, moldy cheese, rotten egg, toothpaste and black pepper. Vomit and ear wax are also on the menu, but we haven't had them yet.

Ian & Marie go back to France tomorrow and Ian will continue on to Zürich on Monday.

It's hard to believe that it was merely a month ago that we were all in Berkeley. Best wishes to everyone.

Authors

Hello, family readers,
Our authorship has doubled in the past few days. Dan's posted and Cille has also indicated her interest in posting as well. Fabulous. Wouldn't it be great if it caught on? What a nice way to stay in touch.

Today I start my big project with the 10th graders. It's really my first test as a faculty member at this new school. I have been fairly insistent about a re-design of their class trips program at the 10th grade level and was encouraged by a supportive team of colleagues to forge ahead. Today starts the first ever Out-of-Door Academy class trip/biography project. I had a visiting artist in my classes yesterday talking to kids about the role of story-telling through history. He ended by sharing a clip of a particularly poignant anecdote about an interview he did with a man who fled Pinochet in Chile to seek asylum in Vienna.

Today my students will be matched with an elderly person in a local, public nursing home. They will record two interviews over the next two days then work with artists (writers, story-tellers, and visual artists) to render one of the elder's stories into a creative medium. They had the choice of creating a podcast, painting a lifemap or story-board, creating a short documentary, using photography and captions, or creating a live performance/interpretation. It's a twist on the project that I am experimenting with. It incorporates all the basics of the biography projects I've done in the past with a great program from Rowland Hall in SLC called Artstart.

I'll let you know how it goes. Maybe I can even figure out how to post one of the projects on this blog.

Hope you are all well.
Camela

News from pops

Hi there!
I may now have been admitted to The Rothary!
Camela, it you get this, I think I am supposed to ask for administrator rights. Is that correct?
Love, Pops

Tracy Home Theater Progress

We have now watched Seventh Heaven and the first two episodes of The Wire, with Becky at the controls. I moved additional seating into the theater and rehung more pictures. I moved some additional accent lighting in so as not to rely on the washed-out overhead lighting. I revised the sketchy instructional notes into a handsome set of manualized scenarios, printed out and also stored on the household Mac.

Tomorrow I will install lighted exit signs, a dimmer switch for the house lighting, and a small snack counter in the upstairs hall. We also need some of those brimless usher hats and small flashlights. Dan, when you visit again, would you increase the pitch of the floor to accomodate a raised row of seats at the back? Thanks.

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