by Megan Durham | Nov 25, 2009
Rarrrrrrr! Hear me roar! Let’s just start this off by saying that I absolutely HAVE to get some sleep tonight. I’m exhausted, tired beyond myself, enough that I can actually feel my thought processes slowing down… taking a moment longer than usual to...
by Megan Durham | Nov 17, 2009
I got a couple of compliments from people telling me that I always seem to be doing something, but I don’t really feel it. Sometimes I feel as if I’m not really doing anything, even though I’m out doing stuff most of the day. I guess I’m used...
by Megan Durham | Nov 4, 2009
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks. We finally have students in our classes, which means that I don’t have to spend us much time wandering through classes on the 6th grade floor but instead get to do the job we came here for and work with kids who really...
by Megan Durham | Oct 21, 2009
So, I guess my Magazine Club students don’t actually hate me. I was afraid that after the first meeting we had that they were going to all go and change their clubs to something else, but in fact the opposite happened. I’ve got three new girls, all friends...
by Megan Durham | Oct 13, 2009
Today was my first day in the schools and in uniform! It felt very official walking into the school all dressed in our reds, but it was mostly for show. The administration is waiting to give us suspended students until we’re embedded a little further into the...
by Megan Durham | Oct 7, 2009
So yesterday was the big ceremony that we’ve been hearing about for so long now. It’s the official induction into our year of service and marks the end of our month of training. It was also, coincidentally, the coldest freaking day I’ve experienced...
by Megan Durham | Oct 5, 2009
This weekend has been a big movie weekend!A couple of days ago my roommate across the way, Elena, asked me to see a movie that her friend had free tickets for. She told me that as soon as she heard about it she had thought of me, and when she told me the subject of it...
by Megan Durham | Sep 29, 2009
Today we finally got our boots! For those of you who aren’t in the know, Timberland has been an ardent supporter of City Year from the very beginning. We actually got to see a wonderful video from the CEO of Timberland explaining how that partnership came about...
by Megan Durham | Sep 28, 2009
Well, I find that I am having a bit of trouble keeping up with this. It’s mostly because I’ve been going through my notes and journals and making blog entries for things that happened before and haven’t wanted to write present entries until after I...
by Megan Durham | Sep 15, 2009
Our first day of school is approaching, and with it all the responsibility they’ve been telling us about. So I’ve been using my relatively un-stressful time to wander around my neighborhood. I haven’t made bread yet like I planned, I still need to go...
by Megan Durham | Sep 13, 2009
I got my first choice! I’m not sure exactly who my team members are going to be, but I know what team I’m on! First though, the retreat was wacky fun, full of all of the goofball antics I expected out of it. They broke us into “crazy” teams...
by Megan Durham | Sep 9, 2009
So we have settled pretty securely into training. It’s a little slow, but it is interesting to get to know all the different projects and filling out our preference sheets so that the staff knows where to place us. There are basically four choices of projects...
by Megan Durham | Sep 1, 2009
I’m not really unpacked yet, although all of my stuff is in my room. I’m slowly taking it out of the mass of boxes that are stacked precariously in the center of my room but I’m finding it difficult to find time to sit down and get it all in order. There...
by Megan Durham | Aug 28, 2009
Well one thing is certain, City Year is definitely different. I knew that they prided themselves on their culture, it was one of the things that drew me to them in the first place, but I find that I didn’t grasp how much that culture permeated everything that...
by Megan Durham | Aug 27, 2009
Early this morning I drove my dad to the airport. It’s not that I’m not excited to be up here, or that the idea of living by myself away from my home is impossible to fathom (after all, I’ve done it before), but I couldn’t help but be hit by a...
