Rhinelander a.k.a. Siberia

Made it to Rhinelander! I will be up here through New Year's most likely. Cheyenne came with me and is trying her best to cope with a noisy household. Don, Hope, and the kids showed up today. Kenny, Beth, and I went out this afternoon for some sledding fun. Can't wait to get over to Colfax and see the rest of the gang.

I have two favors to ask of the readers of this blog: keep your old magazines and newspapers for me and collect postage stamps for me. The magazines and newspapers I am gathering for my ESL students and for my fellow TAs in St. Cloud. Both students and TAs often need to find articles to use in projects, so save what you have and I'll get them from you the next time I see you. The stamps are for me. I am starting to collect again. I know; I am a nerd.

Ouch! I have braces now...

Here I am with a group of coworkers from the Intensive English Center. The picture was taken this past Friday at the graduation for the international students we worked during this semester. It is great that so many of our students will be moving to regular university studies. The graduation ceremony was fun, and there was a nice potluck meal to accompany it.

Below is a picture from a march I intended a few weeks ago. The event was in support of equal marriage rights for same-sex couples.


Finally, I had braces put on Monday. I'm pretty sore right now, but thankfully my teaching is done as are most of my classes and meetings for the semester, so I can lay on my futon doped up on Extra Strength Tylenol and Orajel. The beginning is supposed to be the worst they tell me. I sure hope they're right.