2011 was a great year for me! I got mono and strep throat, racked up a big ole’ hospital bill, nearly been hit by a car twice, experienced what it is like to be in the workplace 40 hours a week, been frustrated with my co-workers, my housemates, my friends back home and my family, [...]
Read more“No Casey, don’t think, just do.” A friend told me this and I looked at him like he was crazy, how could I not think? My brain is always analyzing, always trying to figure out the best course of action, the next step, how to manage my health, what I should say, what I shouldn’t [...]
Read moreComing to Los Angeles, I had a lot of expectations for how this year would end. Imagine thinking about the end before even beginning; before landing here I thought I had everything figured out. Fortunately or unfortunately, right from the very beginning my expectations were shattered, forcing me to rethink all my plans. My internship [...]
Read moreIt’s like a weird confession of sorts but my last semester of college, I finally learned how to swim. My best attempt at swimming was floating on my back or wading around in the shallow end of the pool. I was always afraid to jump into the deep end of the pool because I thought [...]
Read moreMy time in Los Angeles thus far has been nothing short of spectacular personal growth. I am loving my my work site at eCALS high school and my living arrangements in Hollywood with my three housemates. I suppose I am so content because I didn’t have have any extravagant expectations of how my life would [...]
Read moreI was recently told that around mid-October national service corps members should start feeling the end of the honeymoon phase. We should start to realize that the work we are being asked to do is too huge, that we are actually not making as much of a difference as we originally thought we could. We [...]
Read moreWOW! We have been here for a little over a month and I swear that it feel s like so much less time and so much more time than it has been. This is a very confusing feeling, but I appreciate it. To be able to say we are only a month into a 12 [...]
Read moreEarly on in my college career I had a plan for exactly what I wanted to do with my life, and strict requirements and goals that would have to be met in order to succeed. While I quickly learned that I was not happy while working towards my pre-veterinary major, I felt as if I [...]
Read moreIt took Dorothy but a moment to realize she wasn’t in Kansas anymore. I realized before I had even left New Hampshire. I clearly remember that cold April day last spring, when the realization struck. I was sitting on the bus riding from Dover to Durham, just 8 miles up the road. I greeted the [...]
Read moreWhenever I tell others about my year of service, part of the conversation almost always goes something like this: Stranger: Oh, so, what do you do? Megan: I’m a teacher. S: What do you teach? M: Well, I teach middle school–6th, 7th and 8th grades. S: Middle school, huh? Those were the worst years of [...]
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