A thing or two

Just a few quick updates:

1: As planned, the half of our team that was working at Dorsey high school traded place with the half that was working for New City Parish. Its nice to get a break from the school but man is it dull here. New City Parish is a broken organization. They have no money, no motivation, and no clue how to get things done. Theres only so much an NCCC team can do to help, and these guys need more than we can offer. What a waste of time and skills.

2: I volunteered to help run a weekly afterschool course for 8th graders teaching them how to best utilize their time in high school to prepare for college. What they didn't tell me until the night before was that I was actually designing and running the course solo. Thanks for the heads up! So I pulled that one out of my ass and got to the middle school with Sandhya ready to go. Only 3 kids showed up, none of them had been to the initial class the week before, and all of them were 6th graders. Were you planning for high school (much less college) in 6th grade? I know I wasn't. These kids had absolutely zero interest in what we had to teach and I don't blame them.

CYFC, the organization that had me doing this project, is a good group, but they have their heads so far up their own asses that they can't see what programs are working and which ones aren't.

3: Only 2 and a half more weeks til we leave this miserable city and crappy project. I can't wait for spring break. Camping at Yosemite? yes please!