An Illinois native, I just moved to Marin County, California for an 11 month AmeriCorps internship with SPAWN, a watershed protection non-profit. I've lived my whole life in Illinois and am absolutely a midwesterner, so this is a new phase of my life and a huge adventure for me. Read on!

Thursday, November 30, 2006

There was a frost this morning

Yesterday was our first field trip! Heidi and I had 50 kindergarten boys from a private boy's school in San Francisco come up for a creekwalk (we took them in two groups, plus parents). Unfortunately we didn't see any fish, but we talked about their life cycle and what kind of habitat is good for them and what SPAWN does to help keep their habitat clean. The one thing we didn't cover that would've been good is what they could've done at home.

It was rushed, but it went well considering the craziness of the day before - discovering that kindergarteners need car seats and thus weren't taking a bus, but instead taking 18 cars, discovering that a movie was being filmed at the site we wanted to take them (so we couldn't)... Overall, it worked out.

Yesterday morning, however, my computer broke. The LCD display is on the fritz, says Dell. Today at work I hooked it up to an extra monitor that happened to be lying around, and after someone else blew a fuse, my laptop LCD display decided to start working again.

So I don't know what it's deal is, but I'm not paying to get it repaired until it's really, really broken.

Our second restoration day is on Saturday, we're expecting a big group, but we don't know where our food donations are... somewhere still in the land of FedEx, I suppose.

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