Yesterday we did some errands, and stopped by my Aunt Sandy’s house to drop off some presents. I hadn’t seen her for years. She doesn’t look any older, while I do. Back at Maw’s house, Stella had fun in the snow. Eleni tried to see what it was like to be a dog running in the snow. It’s harder than it looks. For dinner last night Mom took us to the Greenville Country Club, longtime […]
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Hogback Mountain
It finally happened. I was on Hogback Mountain shopping for Vermont things. I took my items to the cashier. The cashier asked, “Will you be using your senior discount?” “No,” I replied firmly, snapping my SIT ID on the counter. “As you can see, I am a student.” From there we descended three floors into the Southern Vermont Natural History Museum, which was pretty cool. On display are rescued owls and hawks, which at that […]
Read moreIndigenous People’s Day
Yesterday I had a lovely day getting my hair dyed and cut, and eating lunch with the few people who remained on campus, and meeting for an hour-plus with Bev, one of my professors who was incredibly helpful to my confused self, and going home and doing homework. And then Dena came by and we were going to parallel study but we yacked instead, and then I did more homework and then I went to […]
Read moreRefugee Day
Yesterday was my day to tutor my Bhutanese refugee. Before the lesson I met her at Oakland’s annual Refugee Day, an occasion I’d not known existed. Here’s a picture of her with her granddaughter. One granddaughter. Many granddaughters. During part of the day’s ESL instruction we worked with singular and plural. I spontaneously flew around the room with plastic Aquafina bottles in my hands and placing them here and there. This bottle. That bottle. These […]
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