A Confusing End To Summer
Today I finished my last classes for TCC’s College For Kids. I had this whole cool idea of letting the kids take turns presenting their web pages to the rest of the class on the projector. That idea failed yesterday when the 70+ CD-RW discs that we had WOULD NOT WORK. I was sad since I was going to put each on my website for the presentations. Knowing I wouldn’t be able to do that, I accepted and moved on. So today I went to buy regular CD-R’s for them to save their sites on.
When I got to school, NONE OF THE NEW DISCS WORKED EITHER! Oy, what a day. We finally worked it out (sort of…) by zipping up all the files and sending them to their emails (or their parents). Some of the kids didn’t know, so I emailed all theirs to myself and gave them my card. Now it’s up to those parents to contact me and get them. It was an event, but it went pretty well.
It’s never fun to say goodbye to the kids we meet, but that is the way of education. I still haven’t had to say goodbye to a class I’ve had for any length of time. In some ways I guess this is better, since I can build up to a whole year. Most of my teaching jobs have been only a couple months.
It looks like next up for me is a few websites and hopefully a job working for Habitat for Humanity. One of my TCC professor’s told me about the job, and she gave them the nicest recommendation I have ever seen! I am so very appreciative. She is the one that set me up with College for Kids as well. A good friend to have. They have a long questionnaire for applicants to fill out and I can understand that, for a community-oriented company it makes sense to learn as much as you can about someone. One question asked about my online endeavors. My list could have gone on for quite a while… I only listed my most active.
Tomorrow we’re Austin bound for my cousin Jacob’s wedding. It should be one of those weddings you don’t want to miss. I imagine they went all out on it. I’m looking forward to a fun weekend. In addition to the wedding, I’ve set up visits to a number of friends I haven’t seen in awhile! I think it will be a lot of fun.
