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The Commodore-Duchess apartment building. It's literally right across the street from UW proper. UT folks, imagine living at 26th and Wichita. The location is killer, all the bills are paid, but it is a little bit small. I'm sure I'll get used to it. - IMG 3073
Just as I got into the Seattle area, it started to rain on me... It was as though Seattle had prepared a special welcome just for me. - IMG 3071
I know what you're thinking. Driving at 75mph and taking pictures of your odometer are mutually exclusive activities. But it was a *really* long drive, and maybe after 8 hours I was getting overconfident. - IMG 3067
A view of Mt. Shasta from I-5 - IMG 3064
At about 5:45, I'm on the road about to cross the Dunbar bridge over the bay. - bryan reads
bryan reads - Bryan photo
Bryan and the surf. - Sand castle finished
We decided our sand castle would incorporate several civilizations. A Norman castle keep, an Egyptian pyramid, a Sumerian and/or Mayan ziggurat, and the Great Wall of China. We are HUGE nerds. - Bryan keeps building
Bryan keeps building - Bryan builds
Bryan builds - Sand castle begins
Sand castle begins - Sand castle planned
Sand castle, planned - Leslie the ocean
This weekend, Bryan comes! We go to the beach. - Bryan surveys the ocean
Bryan surveys the ocean - Leslie and Bryan cook
They miss the kitchen! With one set of camp silverware and one set of camp pans, Leslie and Bryan valiantly attempt a meal in Leslie's pittance of a kitchen. It turns out marvelously. Mom's spaghetti sauce--always the inaugural meal. - Team building 3
Another group - Team building 2
My view, from the back of the line. - Team building
Team-building! Whee! We get unnecessarily close with our CMA groups trying to make our way across the grass on posterboard lily-pads. - Friday afternoon 3
Until the TFA staff has something else fairly ridiculous for us to do. - Friday afternoon 2
Relaxing in the grass on campus for a few minutes, after a loooong week. - Friday afternoon
Friday afternoon - CS session 3
Lots of group work. Lots of posters. - CS session 2
All the teachers now in class. During the morning when we're not teaching and all afternoon, we teachers become students again. Usually pretty bad ones. There's this decompressing period after you walk out of the classroom during which we are, for all intents and purposes, 13 years old ourselves. - CS session
Again. - Markham Middle School
Markham Middle School - Le
Le, one of the members of my 12-person CMA group (don't even try keeping all the groups straight). She's eating lunch during one of our "synthesis sessions" that take place when teaching ends every day. - Ariel CMA
Ariel, our CMA (corps member adviser). She's just completed her two-year TFA commitment teaching English in LA, and she plans to keep teaching. - teachers lounge
In a few moments of spare time, we relax in the teachers' lounge. - Class group
Ms. Carter's lit group - Class
Class