The monsoon season is upon us. It rains at least once everyday.
As much as I enjoyed and learned being at the Cronkite School for 2 weeks I am glad to be back home. I love the community in which I live and teaching means everything to me. I am glad to be back in my classroom and getting ready for the new year.
I am going through all of my books and will be putting together a list of titles a bit later this summer. Next week I will be putting together curriculum for the new year. I came up with dozens of ideas while in Phoenix and will be fleshing them out for the new year.
So, thanks to all the staff, speakers and attendees for all that you shared.
Mark Silverstein
Media and Journalism Instructor
Douglas High School
Douglas, Arizona
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Well, it was the focus of my multimedia vignette, but it also rains daily in Connecticut, although it is not supposed to. Rain depresses me, and I miss the blue skies in Arizona. I never realized how un-blue the skies are in CT until I saw the AZ sky. I miss the "dry heat" as everyone calls it, and I miss the way it smells like something is on fire every where you go. I even miss the way my throat dries up whenever I'd go for a walk. If I could convince my parents to move out there with me, I'd go. Everything here is green and soggy. Everybody keeps talking about typing their thank you letters to Reynolds; was that an assignment!
ReplyDeleteI hope all is well. Thanks for your friendship, and for letting AJ "have" your girlfriend for a day. ;-P
Keep those cards and letters coming, folks. I really enjoy reading them. I'm finally back home also.
ReplyDeleteImmediately after the Reynolds, I had to attend a five-day workshop for AZ's SEI training. As much as I wanted to attend the Reynolds directly correlates to how much I did not want to attend Structured English.
Last night we had the monsoon hit the Surprise area...it is so beautiful and can be so damaging at the same time. We were getting about 120 lightning strikes every 10 minutes.
And, finally...RAIN. There is nothing more precious than rain in the desert. Everything blossoms and the air becomes so clear.
Today, Cathy and I are off to Sedona. My BFF lives there. He's six years old, and we have so much fun together.
Love, etc.
Rick Burd
Wickenburg HS
It was 109 yesterday (July 4) and today in Laredo. (Monday and Tuesday also 109 and Wed., 111.) We've had an unusually hot hot hot summer. Generally it's not over 105, if that high but this year is an exception.
ReplyDeleteThis weekend I painted the garage door and trim and mowed the grass, but otherwise stayed inside. In a few minutes I need to go outside and water the poor plants trying to hang on in our garden. It's down to 98. We're trying for a garden of eden, but not everything is coping well with the heat.
If y'all want to send some rain this way I'd appreciate it.
Mark Webber
Laredo, Texas
And then please send it on East! We haven't seen any rain since late in May. It's been really hot here, too, and the heat index has been around 105, 110 a few days. It may rain tomorrow, we hear. I'll believe it when I see it.
ReplyDeleteThe news in Mississippi right now is wrapped up with our lack of rain, and with Steve McNair, the murdered Tennessee Titan QB. He grew up in a small town that was a rivalry for the high school in our small town, and played college ball here, too. Our first word of it was at a family July 4th get-together, from my cell phone. I couldn't help thinking of all we heard about multi-platforms and technology at the Reynolds Institute. We were in the middle of NOWHERE with no TV on, and still got the news fairly quickly. And six months ago, I couldn't even get cellular service there. It's all changing so fast.
Lynne Schneider
Jackson, Miss.