you thinking eating popcorn for dinner is bad? 

i ate crackers + brie with raspberry jam

plus a slice of dark chocolate cake for dinner..

:X

hanauma bay 

is a volcanic crater with a tropical reef inside.

this place seems too good to be true.

spam for breakfast

spam musubi for lunch

 we had a nice view of diamond head volcano.

i've never had other people acknowledge and

thank me for being brave before.

it all feels like a blur now, but
i somehow led my cohort into what i consider to
be the most authentic, honest, emotional
and vulnerable but powerful
conversation of the entire program so far.

in that moment, i decided that i wasn't going to
continue letting people use their privilege of
"discomfort" as an excuse to silence others anymore.

 ~  ~  ~  ~

"what's the news? what happened?"

"well, linda basically started a revolution in class today."

today, we made interactive cards that "hug back"

for FRIENDSHIP/VALENTINE'S DAY

[note the teeth along the mouth, to the right]

it's a nice feeling

to see how these dots/people/ideas
are all starting to connect, finally.
.... ... .. ......  ...   .. .

woohoo for productive snowy days at cafes!

how to nurse yourself back to health within 2 days:

1). eat mini saltine crackers

2) swallow cloves of garlic on a spoonful of honey

3) take 7+ naps (hopefully, your sickness

falls on a weekend)

4) make ginger, honey & lemon tea
5) watch snow falling outside~*~*~

once, morgan and i lived amongst chickens and
didn't see any other humans for 4 days.

my CT went to an all day Professional Development

so... i taught an entire day of
kindergarten by myself!

~*~*~*~*~

"i just love watching you grow."

- cathy, my CT
:)

waiheke island

we had a guest speaker who

shared with us concrete strategies/ideas

for culturally responsive teaching.

she had asked her students' parents to come in
to share their own "survivor stories."
one mother who survived living
in the amazon rainforest came into the classroom
and told stories of what it was like to
live off the land, hear screeching monkeys all day,
and travel across raging rivers.

i think i'm doing to do something

inspired by this for my

COMMUNITY, FAMILY, POLITICS ACTION PROJECT~*~

"if you bite the head first, you'll be smarter.

if you bite the tail first, you'll run faster."