Weekend Away

This week concludes my second week of teaching evening courses for FLOC's educational guidance and advocacy program. I'm still learning the students names, getting used to preparing curriculum, and getting comfortable approaching the students. The week's sophomore workshop was based on creating career goals, and how much higher education influences our ability to reach them. Our junior class has been taking practice ACT and SAT exams. Our program requires the junior students to take at least two practice exams of each. We also offer up to two vouchers to students who financially would not otherwise be able to register for the exams.

Last week I went to a local high school in Washington to present some recruitment materials on our programs. The school was like something I have never seen before, with metal detectors at the doors and a place to X-ray peoples belonging as if I were getting inspected by the TSA. But if that's what it takes to keep the students safe, then I guess it is necessary.

Last weekend my little brother Brian rode a bike down to my neighborhood and we watched the Notre Dame-Michigan State game at a friends house. Happy to report the Irish beat Michigan State 33-30. The first win again Michigan State at Notre Dame stadium since 1993. That night Brian had dinner with my community, and we went out in Georgetown. It was an active weekend, and unfortunately ended with my community member Rachel being take into the hospital. She was experiencing some chest pains due to a collapsed lung. We're happy to report that her procedure was successful and she came home on Wednesday.

This weekend I am traveling with my placement to West Virginia, where we are taking our senior class on retreat to some property that FLOC owns. I'm looking forward to this opportunitiy to see some new territory, meet some new students, and relax out of the city for a couple of days.