Five months and counting

While subbing recently at the Zurich International School, I covered a seventh grade technology class. One of their assignments was to create a podcast involving their recent weeklong field trip to Spain. That's right, Spain. Got some great ideas for future podcasts. Tried podcasting once with my 8th grade history classes at Tamanend, uploaded them to my wiki, but didn't use them much more after that.
The seventh grade tech students also completed a blog assignment in which they blogged on a "world issue" after reading news articles on the topic. It struck me for two reasons: first, that 13-year olds were mature and intelligent enough to read and offer their perspectives on significant issues in our world today (child labor, global warming, landmines, one laptop per child, etc). Secondly, if a bunch of seventh graders can share their thoughts/opinions online in the form of a blog, why don't I try this whole blog thing. Not necessarily because I have any interesting insights on food shortages or class struggles, but as a way to share some experiences from life here in Thalwil, Switzerland. So check in every once in a while to get an update. One caveat: my storytelling ability is legendary...for being terrible.