Saturday, July 24, 2004
Hanging above the city on my fire escape feels surreal.
I need an excuse to hit the streets.
Give me a call (home, my cell is screwy) and lets go party it up.
I need an excuse to hit the streets.
Give me a call (home, my cell is screwy) and lets go party it up.
Friday, July 23, 2004
Hello New York!
Please call. I have four days here.
Please call. I have four days here.
Friday, July 02, 2004
This is so amazing. (this being my trip, this continent, this country, these people)
Tomorrow, Dakota and i are climbing mt Kilimanjaro with two otehr people. The first day we are going 14 miles. Everyone says we can't do it, but we're city girls, we're strong. If you happen to think of me tomorrow, send me strong-ness vibes.
Today i decided to try to teach my kids math, after i discovered they already knew their abc's and my lesson plan was ruined. So i put and addition problem ont eh board and they all jumped out of their desks and stormed the balckboard begging for chalk with which to write the answer. So I gave them a list of problems to do on tehir own,a dn there were a few kids who finished in minutes, i gave them harder and harder problems, until i ran out of additiona dn subtraction problems. SO i tried multiplacation. There was one quiet adorable little boy named kelving who got it right away. We tried division, he got that too. He didn't have his ta bles memorized, but he understood the concept and could work anything out. He's six. He can read aloud in english also. I was so impressed. I made him stay in during recess, and i taught him addition of fractions. WE both got so excited. He's my new best friend.
Oh i also have a story about lizards. But thats for some other time. I taught my kids to say whats up and not much, so now when i go up to the little tanzanian children, i can go "wazzzup" and they slap my hand and say "not much" or "chillin'" Its AWESOME.
Tomorrow, Dakota and i are climbing mt Kilimanjaro with two otehr people. The first day we are going 14 miles. Everyone says we can't do it, but we're city girls, we're strong. If you happen to think of me tomorrow, send me strong-ness vibes.
Today i decided to try to teach my kids math, after i discovered they already knew their abc's and my lesson plan was ruined. So i put and addition problem ont eh board and they all jumped out of their desks and stormed the balckboard begging for chalk with which to write the answer. So I gave them a list of problems to do on tehir own,a dn there were a few kids who finished in minutes, i gave them harder and harder problems, until i ran out of additiona dn subtraction problems. SO i tried multiplacation. There was one quiet adorable little boy named kelving who got it right away. We tried division, he got that too. He didn't have his ta bles memorized, but he understood the concept and could work anything out. He's six. He can read aloud in english also. I was so impressed. I made him stay in during recess, and i taught him addition of fractions. WE both got so excited. He's my new best friend.
Oh i also have a story about lizards. But thats for some other time. I taught my kids to say whats up and not much, so now when i go up to the little tanzanian children, i can go "wazzzup" and they slap my hand and say "not much" or "chillin'" Its AWESOME.
