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  • 9/21

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    Monday I lived in the front and top of my head. I started a list of keeping-a-school-running tasks/logistics/legal requirements that I’ll use as a reference next summer, so I can get a bunch of admin work done before the actual start of school (unlike this year…where I wasn’t organized because I didn’t realize quite how…

  • First full week!

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    And it was a visiting week! AAAAND it still feels likes summer outside! I…did a bunch of paperwork this week. Logged everyone’s permission forms and health forms and applied for new metro cards and made a parent directory and started working on student ID cards… That said, I also got to paint, do improv games…

  • Week One, Year Three

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    That summer went fast…Colorado, dancing poets, an abundance of ALFs, mountains, paint, scaffolding, writing, music…It was fantastic. I’m excited to have a regular rhythm to my weeks again, though. And to be back with our spectacular young people. Monday and Tuesday, Ryan and I were in the space to get it cleaned up. We were…

  • Editing

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    It’s like I’m a self-directed learner or something. Some of my ALF friends write amazingly, and I really wanted to be like “Hey, just write and get all that fascinating, useful, beautiful storytelling out of your head and onto this page so I can read it. Then let me fix the punctuation and grammar so other…

  • ALF Summer 2015: Week 1

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      I started this week super excited to be in Charlotte, North Carolina to meet new ALFs! I right away got a couple pieces of bad news about some friends, and I was worried about being able to hold a group’s energy while working through my sadness. But both because the group this year was…