It's true what they say...life comes at you in cycles. And every so often it feels like you come to the end of a cycle and then what? All signs point you in the right direction, but can you see the signs? It's all about cliche's today...can you see the forest for the trees? Two roads diverged in the yellow wood....
So do you stay the course or take the road less traveled...Once, a few years ago I sat through Sunday Mass down in NJ and listened passionately to missionaries from Haiti. I want to go to Haiti, to teach children and adults how to read and write...the very basic elements of our American education we take totally for granted.
Last month at the National Middle School Association conference I listened passionately to a science teacher from Colorado who, through an interactive telecollaborative web project with his class, befriended a teacher from Botswana. The school ended up donating their outdated desktop computers to the Botswanan village school, which had no electricity, no Internet connection-no running water...no walls. The computers had to be set up in a public building in the village center .The two teachers and their students continue their relationship to this day..
So how do all the pieces of the puzzle fit together? They say patience is a virtue.....if only I could see. But there's a reason for everything and who knows what it is? So sit back, enjoy the ride, and see where the road takes you...
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