Fusing Generations (and Langauges) with @CWPFarfield @FairfieldU. Ten Years Later the Stories Keep Telling Themselves (and in this case, Making Alumni)

You know you're Crandall when you leave one teaching space to be a special guest in another teaching space, recording video to be part of the teaching space you're leaving, so the learning continue to go on and on and on. I wanted to post the picture sent to me from the parent... "Dear Dr. Crandall." It tells a decade story of how a young woman came through our writing camps and 10 years later returned to Fairfield University to do her MFA in Creative Writing. I love that story.

I love that returned from her advanced degree...to the very location where her pen first started hitting the paper. Congratulations, Madeline Nigro. Phew. I'm so amazed!

Yesterday, I had fun bringing Ubuntu Academy together with freshmen enrolled in the Bellarmine College Associate Degree program. One group was working on college essays and the other was working on Identify Self-Portrait pieces for their English class. A workshop on photographs, counting on ten fingers, and using the good ol' five sentence had around 40 kids who didn't know each other writing silently for over an hour. Max and I simply had to go around and prompt kids when they were stuck. Total joy. 

Today, it's my annual Script-Writing activity with Ubuntu Academy, and last year we did a preliminary wedding between Mr. King and Ms. Baldizon (before I officially married them in August). This year, Mr. King will be delivering twins...he's doing the labor of Ms. Baldizon (now Mrs. King). This may have been the funniest script I've yet to write and, yes, it is translingual, representing the five languages spoken by young people in the program to learn English. 

I also ordered a surprise for Friday, which I'm also excited about. King and I were talking about what we might do, and he always said, "We've never made bracelets." Well, here we go. More items Crandall never thought he'd be putting on his credit card...

...but when it comes to the joy of our summer programs...I simply can't help myself.