Summer: Day 16

Updates via phone:

1) I can post via phone! Oh empty joys of technology!

2) 300 pages later of my education research textbook summer marathon, I am surprisingly more in tune with the thoughts and desires of researchers than I thought. Determining alternative hypotheses to control for with my experimental research design is making my brain tickle. I didn't have fun with research before perhaps because I didn't get to do any of the fun stuff, which is planning the entire experiment out.

3) My new bookcase has just been delivered! Now I get to build something!

Summer: Day 2

My schedule for the rest of the summer includes the following (and much more):

* Begin another batch of online education classes and research for my MAE

* Create a better curriculum for a science class supporting recent arrivals from Mexico

* Fly to Hong Kong

I should be in Excessive Reading mode now to finish things ahead of time, but the following is bound to (repeatedly) happen instead:

"Astute thinking about research can greatly enhance your ability to understand published educational research and commu--

*snore*

Summer: Day 1

Bowling and beers led to:



Five Strikes in a row!

School's Out

...and it ended quite abruptly, without much fanfare. But at least it ended!

There is lots of stuff on the summer agenda before we start again in August with Round 2 of the Teach For America commitment, but to paraphrase what my roommate told me:

"Summer vacation is so long that you forget you actually have a job."

Things are looking up!

Get Me Out of Here

Depart: 02:00pm _________San Francisco, CA (SFO)
Arrive: 05:05pm _________Tokyo, Japan (NRT)

Depart: 06:30pm _________Tokyo, Japan (NRT)
Arrive: 10:00pm _________Hong Kong, Hong Kong (HKG)