Thoughts on Friday...

This has been a busy week! We just finished our second full week of classes and this week the Global Issues Network students in high school (a club I supervise) planned a big school-wide "Go For Green" environmental focus week. Cora and a group of middle schoolers took part by creating a play about environmentalism that they performed at chapel on Tuesday. Also on Tuesday we hosted Theodore Oben from the United Nations as a guest speaker for our high school students. This was quite exciting and he is pictured above with a bunch of the GIN folks (Hannah and myself included). We also witnessed a lovely sunrise early in the week and my good friend Jane took Brian and me to a new store in town that sells wonderful soap-making supplies. We made some all-natural body creams and Brian spent a few hours on Friday experimenting with new soap designs. To add more excitement to the week, we've been teaching from home (via the internet) for a few days because of some confirmed swine flu cases at our school. Classes should be back up and running next week but it's given us a chance to try some new digital tricks with online learning. Fun for us (and hopefully for the kids, too!).