Tweet One of my friend’s challenged me on Wednesday to start thinking bigger than I was. To not sell myself short on that dream job and to recognize that I do have a lot to offer without going back to school. I looked for some jobs, re-opened my Twitter account, and am updating my resume. It was sorta a lot to handle and I got very excited/overwhelmed at these new possibilities. So since we had Veteran’s Day off and I have officially given up sleeping in ever..I got up at 5:45am and set out on a bike ride. My goal was to bike to Banzai Cliff and back-a beautiful lookout…
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Your Story Must Be Told
Tweet YOUR STORY MUST BE TOLD SHAUNA NIEQUIST | 09 NOVEMBER 2010 Share9 You tell what you know, what you’ve earned, what you’ve learned the hard way. You watch it fall on what seem to be deaf ears, and you mutter something under your breath, something about pearls before swine. But then 10 years later, you realize one fragment of your story has now been woven into someone else’s, a very necessary thing, a bridge to a new way of understanding and living. I didn’t need proof from a theologian or a tip from a church practitioner. I needed a piece of a story, something real and full of life…
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Alive
Tweet I took this quote from a friend.. Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Howard Thurman I read it today and realized that this is my current dilemma. I have not quite yet figured out what makes me come alive. I do know that I felt the most alive while I was in Africa and that teaching does not always make me feel super alive. So this is my prayer and pursuit. That I will find that passion that truly makes me come alive..and that I will…
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My First 10k
Tweet After today, I am convinced I have a loose screw somewhere. I decided to run a 10K this morning. First 10k race I have ever run, although surely not my last! However, this was not your normal 10k. No, this race was mostly through the jungle. And I am not talking path through the jungle, I am talking rocky, twisty, vine-covered jungle. At one point, I grabbed a branch two seconds before my head would have gone smashing into it. and it has been raining so much here that it was slippery. But boy was it a fun race! and it ended pretty well too! So here’s out the…
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YEAH Training
Tweet I spent part of the day Saturday at a resort for training for this YEAH program I am the advisor for. I got to bring my 8 students with me and Anna, the third grade teacher came along as well. My students did excellent. I was SO proud of them! They had some really really good ideas for how to improve the health and fitness in our school. And they got pretty excited about the project. Not to mention they fed us some amazing food and gave us some really good information. It was one of the first days I can say I truly am starting to love my…
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Half-Marathon Training..GO!
Tweet I have wanted to run one for awhile. I started training before I left for Saipan, but sorta fell off the course in the midst of moving and settling in here. But I have been running almost everyday and have gotten to the point where I can run 4 miles easily and ran 6 the other day. So I found a training program and started yesterday! I don’t necessarily have a specific race in mind, but there are half marathons every other weekend here so it shouldn’t be a problem to find one to run when I am finished with the training. I plan on doing one in early…
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YEAH
Tweet Never a dull moment in my life-even when I move to the other side of the world on a small island, I can always find plenty to do! So I have been named supervisor for a project called YEAH-Youth Engaging in Advancing Health. I will be in charge of my school in promoting healthy activity and eating. The project is being funded by the Public School System and I am pretty excited about it. I have gathered myself a little team of 10 5th and 6th graders to help me and we will be working all year on this. First order of business, I get to go to training!…
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My Dad Is An Ironman!
Tweet (You get two today! and a promise I will pick up the blog pace!) My dad completed his first ever Ironman today! Oh how I wish I could have been there, but thanks to modern technology I was able to follow him the whole race and sorta see him cross the finish line. I can’t not explain you how nervous I was. My dad has been talking about this for years and been actually training for the past year. It all came down to this. I knew that short of something medically going wrong, he would finish, but man, my nerves were all a tangled mess and I watched…
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First Week of School
Tweet So I did it! I made it through my first week of school without killing a student or quitting my job. Actually, it was really good. I learned a lot though! Teaching is a whole new world for me so it was a week full of learning for both myself and (hopefully!) my students. I have 8 classes a day-all different which is a lot to begin to with. Add to that equation that I have no curriculum or books for any of the 8 classes and you a new dimension to the difficulty. Finally, add to it that I have students from Kindergarten through 8th grade that don’t…
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NPR News update
Tweet If nothing else, maybe Economics will get me a date:) EconomyUndergraduate Economics Sees Popularity SurgeListen Now [4 min 34 sec] add to playlistAll Things Considered, March 1, 2009 · At Ohio’s Oberlin College, registration in undergrad economics classes is up 25 percent this year, and the chair of the department says he’s never seen anything like it. Host Robert Smith finds a similar surge in the classrooms of American University and across the country. So is undergraduate economics getting sexier? In a word: yes.