I just took Banana Nut muffins out of the oven and they smell delicious. I feel like such a homemaker.  While they cool I want to go over my first day of my 16 week residency at Milikin.

This Wednesday B.Max and I went out to the Jr high for the third time. While we completed observations a few weeks prior, I felt like we were walking into unchartered territory (with sensible close toed shoes of course). We were led half way to the bungalow in the back of the school, where Ms. Rahamin teaches a mixed 6th-8th grade ESL class. At this point there were so many things going through my head. Mainly I was curious to see if these kids would understand our presentation. At the bell we warmed up the projector and smoothed out the wrinkles in our presentation attire. But when all eyes were on me, I realized that this was going to be nothing like the presentation Brittany and I gave to our ArtsBridge class. I quickly ditched my notes so that I could talk off the top of my head and engage the students in coversation. Surprisingly enough, they were really into our presentation. I think one of the main reasons was our highly visual power point. There was not a sentence on the presentation, but the students were given a nicely designed handout with all the information for our introduction to graphic design. I know that most of these handouts will end up crumpled in the bottom of their jansport backpacks, but if even one kid reads it then I am happy. During the presentation we asked the students about their interests and about the images. They were responsive and inquisitive. Some of the students were even asking about how they could get to UCLA.

At the end of the class period we assigned homework to bring back a piece of information that they found interesting. One student, said that she was going to bring in a piece of collage that she has been working on.

The next order of business is to create a solid outline of the residency. I would also like to learn all the student's names so I need to get a roster and study. I feel like this is really important in showing that I care about their learning process.