Christina's Excellent Adventure

While not, strictly speaking, a school issue, one of our (briefly hired) substitute teachers has joined the Peace Corps and is now in Burkina Faso, Africa, on her 27 month tour of duty.  The relevance to this blog is that she's my daughter Christina, and her excellent and challenging adventure is the culmination of years of education for both her and her parents.

Christina graduated last May from Dickinson College with a degree in African Studies, so it is fitting that she wind up in Africa. After a second summer teaching basketball on a Crow Indian reservation in Montana, she subbed a few times in September at Nora before heading to Burkina.

As we hear from Christina I'll post various updates about what she's learning and doing which will hopefully prove instructive, and occasionally entertaining, as we live vicariously through her. Approaching middle age, my own life has smaller, and thus perhaps sweeter, adventures, nothing like the grand scope of saving the world.  But it's thrilling to see another generation come along with the enthusiasm and idealism to take on the big challenges with verve and energy, if bittersweet as our little girl goes off to change the world.