I guess I can say that today was "embarkation day" because I got to board the ship for a few hours, unpack, meet my roommate, and get Dustin onboard so he could see where I'll be living for the next two months. But...I'm not actually staying on the ship tonight. So...tomorrow's the REAL DEAL
I took a cab from the ship with an undergraduate work-study student named Jess. She's from New Jersey. Speaking with her helped remind me that not all undergraduate students are immature alcoholics who care more about drinking and hooking up than they do about exploring the world. (case in point: later in the evening, we saw a SAS student in a drunken coma get rushed to the hospital to start her "voyage" in the back of a Bahamian ambulance)
So I found out that I am NOT the only Teacher at Sea this summer :) Wooo hooo! The idea of being the only student in the education classes made me kind of nervous. There are two other teachers onboard. One is my roommate, Melissa, who teaches 2nd grade in Montgomery County, MD. The other, Gary, I haven't met yet, but apparently he has been teaching and traveling for a while, so I bet we will learn a lot just from our interactions with him.
Oh my goodness! Where does your roommate teach in Moco? That's the county I grew up in! I went to Ashburton and that's where my mom works!
ReplyDeleteWe had a get together last night at Carol's to say goodbye to Ginny, Sandy and Shirley. We missed you there!
Glad you are not the only teacher there!
ReplyDeleteLaura, Melissa works at Beall Elementary in Rockville. She's not exactly sure where Ashburton is...what city is it in? What middle and high school did you go to?
ReplyDeleteLucy, thanks! :)
Ashburton is in Bethesda. I went to Tilden Middle school and the Walter Johnson High School
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