The first of hopefully many beer festivals I attend in Portland, Zwickelmania was essentially a tour of a bunch of breweries in Portland, complete with free or reduced drinks and brewery tours. It was a fantastic experience, and I fear that Portland is going to turn me into a major beer snob. However, if all goes as planned and I am living there next year, that shouldn't pose a problem.
Bridge to Brews!!
Speaking of Portland, I have officially registered for a 10k on April 18th. My goal will be to finish without any major injuries/puking (although that would be pretty funny, in retrospect). Apparently the run involves running over bridges in Portland, and ending up at Widmer Brewery for free beer and general merriment. Hopefully my sesmoid stays strong for me.
Oh right, there's also work...
Last couple of weeks, work was pretty lame because I had to assist in giving standardized tests to the ESL students. Very repetitive, and extremely boring. Meanwhile I lost track of where my older ESL students were in their classes, so I basically have to play catch up. The after school program has had its ups and downs: some days the kids are great and we have fun together, other days we go to the gym and after like 10 minutes boys are punching each other, stealing each other's stuff, and girls are crying. There's one catalyst that usually contributes heavily to the bad days: his name is Aaron, and he's basically a racist, homophobic, sexist, ignorant piece of...cheese. He's extremely troubled and is basically doing in-school suspension all the time, but he seems to have the power to ruin the experiences of others at the drop of a hat. He's currently facing disciplinary action (shocker), so I'm hoping that means the program is much more tolerable at least for the time being.
Civic Engagement
Next weekend, our Americorps team is taking 20 junior high students from 3 different schools for a weekend at Cispus, including working on the challenge course, fun stuff like a bon fire and a hike, and lots of teaching on our part, which I'm not looking forward to. I am looking forward to spending the weekend with some of my Mossyrock kids, but I'm also excited for it to be over.
CALIFORNIA
I got to visit Stanford (and my family) last weekend, which was a great mini-vacation but also way too short. It was beautiful and sunny most of the time. I also had a brief stint in San Francisco to hang out with Andrea and Anna. We ate really big burritos, walked around a beautiful park, went to a gay club, and Bob's Donuts. This was just a preview of my spring break trip at the end of March, when I'm headed to San Fran for 5 days to get the full experience.
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