European Showcase
June 28, 2009 | Filed Under Culture, Students, Travel | Leave a Comment
I had the pleasure of leading some of my excellent Dorados through Europe for three weeks, from the end of May to mid-June. We began in London and finished in Athens; in between we spent time in Paris, France; Lucerne, Switzerland; Florence, Rome, and Sorrento, Italy; and Meteora and Delphi Greece. We also cruised the Aegean Sea and enjoyed ports-of-call at the Greek islands of Mykonos, Patmos, Santorini, and Crete, and Kusadasi, Turkey. Here’s Conor, Trevor, Tony, Chloe, Joelle, Casey, Tara, Lacy, and Michael, or Team AZ, in St. James Park, London, the afternoon of our arrival. The London Eye is in the background.
Dancing Dorados
May 14, 2009 | Filed Under Culture, Family, Recreation, School, Students | Leave a Comment
Last night CDO’s dance classes hosted Life’s Better When You Dance (and don’t I believe it), a showcase of students’ kinetic arts efforts. Logan and Sam are advanced students, and were students juniors in my AP English Language and Composition class my first year. Here Logan mimes a devil-may-care collar-popping move from one of the night’s pieces he performed with Sam.
CDO Fine Arts Showcase
April 12, 2009 | Filed Under Culture, Family, Recreation, School, Students | Leave a Comment
The institution where I teach, Canyon del Oro High School, hosted its second annual showcase of fine arts, which included performances by our orchestras, bands, choir, dancers, and actors, and highlighted students’ paint, plastics, and photography productions. I finally was able to experience my excellent students Michael, Addie, and Elise perform, and I was able to see others of my students’ artifacts. Of course, Zufan and Debabu were a hit, as they always, inevitably are.
Tucson Meet Yourself
October 13, 2008 | Filed Under Culture, Eats, Family, Recreation | Leave a Comment
Tucson Meet Yourself, one of our favorite Old Pueblo events, ran over the weekend. Rebecca and I went alone Friday night when I ate Columbian, Korean, Tohono O’odham, and Thai. We ran into two of my excellent students from last year, Sam and Miriam, both now seniors set to graduate next May. And we met two of my students from Pueblo, Deserie (my student all four of her years as a Warrior), who’s hoping to become a lawyer instead of a pediatrician, as she’d dreamed of long ago, and Melissa, who wasn’t my student proper but whom I knew and who joined us as Deserie’s friend in Europe in 2005. They’re both seniors in college, set to graduate too.
