The long haul...

Hello all,
Home again and I must say that this California weather is seriously lacking. The fabulous three weeks spent at Stanford have finished - it was a marathon to be sure, but I've taken away some great memories and lesson plans. The kids were fairly well behaved, although there were definitely some evenings when a couple of us chaperones stayed up until 1:30 - 2 a.m. "Go to bed...NOW!" seemed to be the most prominent mantra.

I was surprised to see just how many students increased their SAT scores; one in particular increased her score by 250 points. Another came into camp with a 2,050 and left with a score over 2200! For those of you who are not SAT savvy, that's pretty good!

I am now enjoying the last couple days at "home" - and will be visiting grandma and grandpa this week to drop off the Hannibal "man-cat." There are still so many things to do from the basic buying deoderant and tampons to shopping for walking shoes, suitcases, textbooks and immunizations. Oy-vey!

I hope I can see all of you before I go, but if not...please don't stay angry at me for a year!! :)

Oh...and...if you want a post-card, please send me your physical address. As soon as I get mine, I will post it so that all of you lovely pen-palls can send me mail! I LOVE MAIL!!!!!

Jaime
P.S. Good luck to Chrissy, Joe and Bridgett (Joe's Sister) for Sunday morning's half marathon)