Teaching Laura,
Thanks for sending me this link! Sounds like you must be a pretty good teacher for the girls to improve so much, but it's disappointing when parental support hinders a students ability to progress or even attend school. There are so many different systems that a student belongs to, their family system, school system, community, friend, etc. etc. etc. Unless all are working together, it's hard to depend solely on one system to bring up all the rest. I'll be praying for you and all your students. I'm sure you tend to be involve with so many levels of these students lives, bringing joy and a positive mentor in to their lives. Keep it up, Laura!
Next year i too will be working with Latinos, specifically Latino migrants up in Yakima, WA as a homeless outreach worker providing health care services. I believe i will be driving in a car, conversing with random people on the streets, and asking if they need to go to the doctor or dentist or receive any other health care services from Yakima Neighborhood Services, the name of the organization I will be working for this year. Next August (2010), I will start grad school at UT Austin to receive a Masters in Social Work so that I may become a therapist, hopefully counseling in Spanish here in Texas, my home state. We'll see!
I hope our paths cross again some day, if not here on earth than in heaven! :)
kate
ditto laura- i've been up those stairs in the center of the city in guayaquil! i went on a service trip to ecuador in high school, and we were in duran, which is outside of the city as you may know.
just wanted to point out that we've been in the same random place : )
yeah, these primer curso girls are a handful, but those two especially are really precious and have a special place in my heart already :)
i miss you juliana!
I am doing this the morning of the beginning of my adventure to Guatemala, so I don't have time to write anything right now. (And for those of you who don't know, my nickname is Laura in the Mexican version of pig latin - I needed a name that wasn't already taken...)... full info
Kate Hedrick
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Laura, Thanks for sending me this link! Sounds like you must be a pretty good teacher for the girls to improve so much, but it's disappointing when parental support hinders a students ability to progress or even attend school. There are so many different systems that a student belongs to, their family system, school system, community, friend, etc. etc. etc. Unless all are working together, it's hard to depend solely on one system to bring up all the rest. I'll be praying for you and all your students. I'm sure you tend to be involve with so many levels of these students lives, bringing joy and a positive mentor in to their lives. Keep it up, Laura! Next year i too will be working with Latinos, specifically Latino migrants up in Yakima, WA as a homeless outreach worker providing health care services. I believe i will be driving in a car, conversing with random people on the streets, and asking if they need to go to the doctor or dentist or receive any other health care services from Yakima Neighborhood Services, the name of the organization I will be working for this year. Next August (2010), I will start grad school at UT Austin to receive a Masters in Social Work so that I may become a therapist, hopefully counseling in Spanish here in Texas, my home state. We'll see! I hope our paths cross again some day, if not here on earth than in heaven! :) kate