Buying Books and Getting Ready

It's time to start planning for my annual Christmas trip. I have found the most meaningful way to spend Christmas is to buy quality children's picture books and donate them to children in southern rural Mexico. So first, I buy the books and have them shipped to Bethel. In this picture, Alaskan students pose with the books I will send to México for children in Chiapas.

I have already bought my plane ticket to Tuxtla Guitierrez, Chiapas. Next, I will start planning out more of the details for the trip south to Mexico. I still need to email some friends who I work with there and set up a place to stay while I am in San Cristobal de Las Casas. My friend Veronica owns a posada there, near the center of town, so I usually stay there, I just need to let her know I am coming so she will hold a room for me.

I have a little over a month before my trip; it seems hard to believe. I have so much to do. My goal is to make a list and start checking off what I need to do before I leave-- at least one item a day. I'll keep you posted on how my plans are going!

A Rough Start

Hello,
It has been a year and two months since I started this blog and I decided it is time to post again. I hope to learn how to post pictures on my blog, since I love taking pictures and sharing them with others. Perhaps, this opportunity will help me get back into creative writing.

I am on a new adventure, albeit reluctantly. I have gotten off to a rough start and am finally feeling like I have a chance to breath and sleep. Tomorrow I will be frantically packing and heading over the gravel runway, now covered with snow to jump on another tiny plane that will take me across the tundra, to Bethel where I will spend two days scoring writing assessments.

What about all that work I promised I would do this week? What about cleaning, packing and catching up on my own life? It’s after nine p.m. and I have not cooked dinner yet, much less eaten nor looked at that mile-long "To-do" list. It’s not going to happen. It’s all a roller coaster ride and you can't get off until May. Next year, 2010. It’s all in the life of an instructional coach in Western Alaska.

Hello,
It has been a year and two months since I started this blog and I decided it is time to post again. I hope to learn how to post pictures on my blog, since I love taking pictures and sharing them with others. Perhaps, this opportunity will help me get back into creative writing.

I am on a new adventure, albiet relunctantly. I have gotten off to a rough start and am finally feeling like I have a chance to breath and sleep. Tomorrow I will be frantically packing and heading over the gravel runway, now covered with snow to jump on another tiny plane that will take me across the tundra, to Bethel where I will spend two days scoring writing assessments.

What about all that work I promised I would do this week? What about cleaning, packing and cathcing up on my own life? its after nine p.m. and I have not cooked dinner yet, much less eaten nor looked at that mile-long "To-do" list. Its not going to happen. Its all a roller coaster ride and you can't get off until May. Next year, 2010. Its all in the life of an instructional coach in Western Alaska.