Monday, February 21, 2011

bak in sodak

Midway through my third trip to South Dakota, things are going great.

So far:
  • It's snowed about 5-6 inches
  • While driving through the snow (because plows are few and far between) we flew off the road in a fish tail into a ditch - no worries, no damage, we were all set. we had to drive in the ditch for a little while in order to get up the embankment
  • Went to mass in a tiny little church with 18 people - actually really cool
  • Got to go back to a few of the historically significant places to get better pictures for when I teach about them again
  • Went to a trading post
  • got to see the new site of the organization I used to work for
  • and have just hung around in the volunteer housing
it's a great low key kind of break from the stressful and crazy life teaching high school

tomorrow, I'm going to go to elementary school to observe my friend teach and get to see her classroom and all that. it's gonna be fun to see what education is like in different parts of the country