So I spent one week in New Orleans apartment hunting with a fellow corps member and getting to know the area. I met a lot of people in the GNO corps. I was also surprised and also a bit disappointed that 85% of New Orleans corps members are white and there is only a little sprinkling of black corps members even though the majority of the students we will be teaching are black. TFA needs a new recruitment strategy because all of these white girls act and talk exactly the same and the vast majority of my peers act like they have never seen or talked to a black person in their entire sheltered lives. If another white girl/boy tells me about what they read about black people in the lone African American Experience class at Cornell University I am going to lose it.
Now I'm at my temporary residence in Atlanta. I will be staying on campus at Georgia Tech for exactly one month while I engage it what some have said will be the hardest most intense five week training I will ever endure in my lifetime. OK. I'm pretty sure these people haven't run collegiate track and field but I'll take their word for it. I start training tomorrow and so far my schedule is looking pretty intense. They did not give me the details but I have to be on a school bus at 6:30 AM in order to get to the elementary school site I will be teaching at for the summer.
Bring on Institute training.
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