cultural leadership conference

the clc has gotten off to a great start!

i'm hosting two gals-- lorena and amanda. amanda's a cool chick, and lorena is a super cool chick! she's from mexico (oaxaca) and she wants to be a teacher and she really loves it here at bv (she also seems pretty shy, but that's a cool trait about her, it looks like-- she's also extremely genuine). they're both seniors in high school. anyway, one is sleeping on my futon and one's sleeping on the floor. thank goodness for lots of floor space. last night when we finally got back to the room, they put in "down to you" and i worked on my lesson plan. i was thrilled w/ how smoothly my lesson plan went. the rough draft is due today but from the sound of it it has to be a very detailed rough draft. the lesson plan is over the concept of Spanish weather terms. it includes an assessment, vocabulary worksheet, bulletin board, activities, and notes. and to think that that's only for one class time. who in the world ever said teaching was easy? definitely no complaints though, i can't wait to make more lesson plans.

it looks like an exceptionally beautiful morning out. i still have spanish to read (the very end of el burlador de sevilla-- THE story about don juan for any people who've ever heard of him!; he's the womanizer, yes) but i think i might end up doing what i did the other night-- printing it off (since it's an online text; yuck) and going for a walk while reading it. i can't afford to waste that much time sitting and attempting to read something i just don't really understand (and might knod off white reading it, anyway). i walked a good two and a half miles on tuesday night reading 500 lines. think i might do the same this morning. i'd jog but that might make it more difficult to read. :)

i can't believe it's friday.

i want to go to riverside presbyterian church in new york city someday.

i think that "diversity" INCLUDES white folks. with the exception of one person, i'm not sure the diversity coordinator on campus realizes this. sad.

the summer is coming up!!!!! lots of traveling!!!!!

i will likely be an ra again next spring when i get back from studying abroad! in LIBERTY! holy cow. too cool! (hip hip hooray for mari doing the mcp in the spring and not the fall, although it'd be cool to do some traveling with her if it were the other way around!)

the most awesome thing happened yesterday afternoon. i might blog about it later when i get the chance. (man am i glad i'm a fast typer and these blogs don't take up TOO much of my time.)

have a beautiful day!