Ready to Go...
Two weeks from tomorrow I'll be heading west. Soon, but in many ways, not soon enough.
Having graduated one month ago this weekend, I am becoming more and more sure that splitting my time between New Hampshire, and the campus of Saint Anselm, and Maine, at home, was the best possible scenario by which to get through the month and a half between graduation and departure. Although neither locale has offered me the new experience that I'm so ready to embrace, the familiarity of campus and home - combined with the occasional lack of anything else to do - has given me plenty of time to think about my pending work with Re-Member, and what will come after that.
Currently, three Saint Anselm students - one who I traveled to South Dakota with in 2008, and two additional students who visited this year with the Spring Break Alternative program at Saint Anselm College are working with Re-Member. As they prepare to depart, I will be heading out with another 2009 SBA participant who will be joining me for the month of July as a program manager. It's a summer of Saint Anselm on the Pine Ridge Reservation!
I've had this blog created for a while now, but was waiting for the right time to put up my first post. Today seemed like as good a time as ever. So, welcome to Reflections From The Rez.
In the next few posts I'll provide some background, and context of my first visit to Pine Ridge in 2008, a trip that I documented for the College Communications and Marketing Office at Saint Anselm as a student-reporter. I'll explain my role this summer, and describe the challenges, and the successes happening around the reservation today.
Stay tuned, it's going to be a great summer.
Having graduated one month ago this weekend, I am becoming more and more sure that splitting my time between New Hampshire, and the campus of Saint Anselm, and Maine, at home, was the best possible scenario by which to get through the month and a half between graduation and departure. Although neither locale has offered me the new experience that I'm so ready to embrace, the familiarity of campus and home - combined with the occasional lack of anything else to do - has given me plenty of time to think about my pending work with Re-Member, and what will come after that.
Currently, three Saint Anselm students - one who I traveled to South Dakota with in 2008, and two additional students who visited this year with the Spring Break Alternative program at Saint Anselm College are working with Re-Member. As they prepare to depart, I will be heading out with another 2009 SBA participant who will be joining me for the month of July as a program manager. It's a summer of Saint Anselm on the Pine Ridge Reservation!
I've had this blog created for a while now, but was waiting for the right time to put up my first post. Today seemed like as good a time as ever. So, welcome to Reflections From The Rez.
In the next few posts I'll provide some background, and context of my first visit to Pine Ridge in 2008, a trip that I documented for the College Communications and Marketing Office at Saint Anselm as a student-reporter. I'll explain my role this summer, and describe the challenges, and the successes happening around the reservation today.
Stay tuned, it's going to be a great summer.
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