I had the wonderful opportunity to intern at Peace Corps headquarters in Washington, DC all four years of college. After graduating, I worked there as an employee helping Returned Peace Corps Volunteers transition from their 27 (or more) months of service overseas back to life in th...
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Write On in Arvaikheer was held on February 10th at the Children Center with 75 students attending. There was an equal amount of young and older students. From 9 AM to 2:30 PM, I sat in the Children Center registering students and supervising the event. It got chaotic in the morning bu...
F and I had talked about trying them from scratch at some point, and H inspired me to order some egg/crumpet rings and give it a go. I usedthis Jamie Oliver recipe. The crumpets were a bit more finicky than I had hoped, in large part because they stuck to the rings. The flavor ...
PART I: WHO AM I One day during the school year of 1998-1999, the principal of Fremont High School in Oakland suddenly cut in front of me with her car as I was walking to the cafeteria for lunch. I was working at the school as a long term sub. She rolled down the car window. ...
And I won’t get any older, now the angels wanna wear my red shoes. I became an evangelist, carrying the album to school and back to try and get friends to listen to it. For most it was too outré believe it or not. The name, the look. Some wouldn’t listen because of that. ...
Manhattan Comprehensive was set up within the public school system to serve immigrants and onetime dropouts - slightly older students who might have left school at some point but are now eager to get their diplomas.Currently, 140 volunteers tutor at the 800-student school. One reason for its ...