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Jun 23 2009

Arrival at Induction

I am sitting in my room at Induction at UPenn, finally.  This weekend was so busy and overwhelming between packing and finishing pre-Institute work.  It is kind of odd sitting here by myself right now… a little boring.  Dinner isn’t until 6 but I guess I can start getting ready soon.  I don’t know where two of my roommates are and the other ones mom is still here.  I have a single room which is pretty sweet.  There are two singles and one double.  Everyone I met so far has been so nice.  All the corps members are just very nice people.  TFA has our entire life scheduled starting at 6 tonight so I don’t think I will find myself being bored again.  I can’t wait to move to Temple on Sunday since that is a campus I know.  Although UPenn’s campus is really nice.  Also, my friend and future…

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Jun 03 2009

Changes

A lot has changed since the last time, I posted.  I graduated from college!  Yay!  I got the keys to my fabulous new apartment in the Fairmount/Art museum area of Philly, where I will be living next year with my two best friends from college. I went on vacation to Las Vegas to celebrate graduation.  It was…

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May 08 2009

The Beginning

I finally started my blog as to avoid doing my pre-institute work.  If you don’t know from the title, I will be teaching in Philadelphia next year at the elementary school level.  The title is a reference to the Philadelphia Flyers (Philly’s NHL team).  It became their nickname in the 70s because they were a vicious…

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