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Posted by Amanda on 12/10/09 in Arrggghh!, Daily Life, Why I Suck, Work Stories
Ha..hahaha….HAHAHAHA. Ha. heh.
Oh, sorry. That was obnoxious. That was just me laughing at the mild ridiculousness of this question, the latest prompt form Gwen Bell’s Best of ‘09 Challenge.
My biggest challenge? I’m living it this instant, surrouned by papers I should’ve graded weeks ago, a week from a huge school-wide exhibition my students are [...]
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Posted by Amanda on 11/25/09 in Class Stories, Daily Life, Family, Work Stories
Instead of being all negative and whiney, I’m going to try to follow some of the excellent advice you guys left me and be postive and happy about all the things that are going well, because, really? My life is going pretty well.
Well, I will pause for a brief moment of bitchery….The DMV can [...]
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Posted by Amanda on 10/24/09 in Daily Life, Kids say the darnedest things, Loving/Hating, Work Stories
I play this game with my adivisory girls that I learned from my elementary school cousins in Boston called High Low, where you say the good things that happened and then the bad. They aren’t great at it, as their answers are always mildly vauge and tend to the negative side (they’re 14. Life is [...]
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Posted by Amanda on 10/20/09 in Class Stories, Daily Life, Kids say the darnedest things, Why I'm Weird, Work Stories
My 22nd year was, in the truest sense, a life-changing year. My life right now looks almost nothing like my life did last year:
Last year, I was in the midst of high school-like drama. This year, I’m teaching high schoolers. Last year, I was drowning in homework. This year, I’m the one giving it. Last [...]
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Posted by Amanda on 10/8/09 in Class Stories, Daily Life, Photography, Very Exciting Things, Work Stories
First of all, thanks for the encouragement on my last (majorly downer) post. Last week was especially rough, and the weekend was not much better. It included breaking out in a stress rash, driving to the doctor to find it closed, driving to my school to find my key didn’t work, and driving home sobbing [...]
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Posted by Amanda on 08/16/09 in Daily Life, Friends, Why I'm Weird, Work Stories
Things I was going to Twitter because I’ve been too busy to blog, but then didn’t even Twitter, because I’m apparently also too busy to Twitter:
- Remember that time I thought I was going to be a normal person after Institute? Hah. Yeah, that was adorable. I’m lengthening that statement to “two years or until [...]
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Posted by Amanda on 08/2/09 in Kids say the darnedest things, Teach for America, Very Exciting Things, Work Stories
I’m done with Institute. I can’t yet process that and should probably be sleeping right now, so until I can form coherent thoughts on the last five weeks, I’ll leave you with a (slightly edited for the internet) email I received from one of my favorite summer school students. It pretty much sums up how [...]
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Posted by Amanda on 06/28/09 in Daily Life, Teach for America, Work Stories
And so LA Induction is over. It’s hard to believe I’ve only been here a week. There are already so many little cliques in the LA corps, and I already have some awesome new friends.
The rest of the week here in LA was solid – we had more info panels about TFA’s corps values and [...]
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Posted by Amanda on 02/13/09 in Daily Life, The Future, Why I'm Weird, Work Stories
Yesterday I got a package in the mail. My mom asked if I ordered something online. Sadly, I answered, no. It wasn’t a fun jewlery or a new MacBook. It was books. Many books. 8 large, bound, small-print books from Teach for America. Books with titles like Instructional Planning and Delivery; Diversity, Community and Achievement; Literacy Theory, [...]
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Posted by Amanda on 11/17/08 in Decisions, Decisions, Job Search, LA, Work Stories
So, today I got a a rather interesting email. It went a little something like this:
“Dear Amanda,
I am pleased to extend you an offer to join the Teach For America 2009 corps! This offer to join Teach For America reflects both your outstanding accomplishments and your potential to move students to achieve. In order to [...]
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