June 2010
2 posts
go city year, it's your burfday (well not really,... →
May 2010
12 posts
for raerae - I will go in your honour. →
“The world demands the qualities of youth - not a time of life, but a state of...”
– Robert F. Kennedy
thenk you PITW #160 (bing!) - Seek to have a hard head and a soft heart.
i heart my job. →
(via: raeraerae)
usa today representin’ city year and the diplomas now collaborative. recognize!
“I firmly believe that any man’s finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of...”
– - Vince Lombardi
city year →
Another one of my pictures published!
amen, sophie. →
City Year London needs more support from the “people upstairs” in order for this opportunity to be accessible for the variety of young people we are looking for here. City Year is meant to be challenging, or it wouldn’t be City Year, but there needs to be support like Americorps in the US in order for the programme to be sustainable and effective in the UK.
April 2010
7 posts
8 principles of fun →
don’t agree too much with point #2, but really like the video
(via gomezelectric)
my heart also goes out to Washington DC, DCPS, and... →
one of my little sister's good friends from... →
the world we live in can be a tragic, scary, and pathetic place sometimes
My thoughts and prayers are with my little sister, all of her friends from Vanderbilt, and especially with the family of this poor boy.
Dear humans of my life that I love,
I write this to you as I wait for my hot water heater to heat up so that I can take a hot shower before bed (yes, we live in colonial times here at 69 the forum). I write this to you exhausted, inspired, stressed, and sorry.
I am sorry if…
- I have been crap at keeping up with this blog - I have ever scheduled a video-chat date with you and it has fallen through - I did not send you a...
I had a 22 minute across-the-pond call with the...
feeling like a very lucky girl right now, and loving City Year even more.
March 2010
18 posts
my photo was published in Islington Now :) →
This is now my second photo to be published in a newspaper in London - very exciting! Who knew moving to London to help start a non-profit would re-spark my love for photography? What a pleasant surprise :)
my photo is in London's Evening Standard! →
Interesting article and awesome :) picture about the work City Year is doing in London - let’s go start-up team!!!
we're kind of a big deal. →
City Year is featured on the peHUB website in an article written by a former corps member! And yes, that is my picture :)
please click & watch. please. →
our corps members started screaming
when I went to let them into the office tonight, for our first Youth Advisory Board meeting (whoop whoop!) and at first I figured it was an inside joke or something, but soon realised I was in business casual dress and they had NEVER seen me out of the khakis and red coat. great reminder of what a ridiculous job i have. i’m glad that now they know that i am, in fact, human.
what does it mean...
… when you are trying to read a book entitled “Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity” but you can’t actually get the reading of the book done and it is stressing you out a bit?
well maybe not the Evening Standard, but I'm cool... →
the high school musical lunchbox
I jumped on my big red bus (#8, whoop whoop!) around 7:45 to get to PT this past Friday morning and as I got to the back of the bus I heard “Hi!” and realised that the little girl across from me was waving enthusiastically with a huge smile on her face. I smiled back and said hello as I took a seat. ”See mom!” she exclaimed as she gestured to the upper part of her jacket....
February 2010
14 posts
thanks for the umbrella mom
i use it every day :(
i recognize that my blog has become a holding place for boston.com links. this will change once life calms down a bit (if that ever happens… if i even want that to happen…)
this week is draggggggging. gonna try some of... →
why didn't I think of that? →
Last nite I told my friends
that I had to go home early because my carpets were getting steam-cleaned the next morning, and I was really excited about it. Does this make me old…?