So, there’s my week in a nutshell

This has been an amazing week, and yes, dear Reader, I am alive and well, just fantastically busy.  There are only 9 days of school and there is just so much to do.

The sophomores, whom I am not teaching this year, are doing their Padua Times project with which I am helping since I have the computers (MAC) that has the software they need to use (InDesign).  The English teacher takes the seniors while I work with the sophomores.  But, this next week that has to change as the seniors must get their graduation gowns ironed in my class to be ready for Academy graduation on Wednesday.  Big graduation, as I call the whole-school affair, is the following Tuesday.

My multimedia students finished their final project–brochure, web site, and video–for a local nonprofit agency.  I have to get the videos burned to DVDs this weekend so we can all watch them the last three days of class for the seniors.  (Our seniors check out a week ahead of the underclassmen.)  The juniors in the class will end the semester cleaning up the computers and moving around equipment.

The yearbook has arrived and was passed out the yearbook staff yesterday at a pizza lunch provided by our photographer.  It was sort of anticlimactic since they have been working on it all year and it’s much smaller this year than past issues.  We will pass it out to the rest of the school (all 180 copies, should take 10 minutes) on Monday.  I have 100 copies to sell which we will do on Tuesday.

This past Thursday I went to a conference at Stanford University on microfinance.  It was a great learning experience, and when I have time, I plan to write more about it.  If any of you dear Readers are involved in such an organization, I would love to hear from you.  This is such an exciting area in which I want to learn more and be more involved.  

And, for a little whimsy, here are most of my seniors with their Academy medals.