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I'm excited! Just met with Jan Bruckner, Penn Health Care physical therapist, a connection I made through the Teacher Summer Institute @ Moore two week ago. She has a tremendous need for rehabilitation equipment for the poor clients she serves in west Philadelphia. We've a collaboration in the making!! I think my LEAP students and I can use recycled materials and our creativity to make some of these items for her...she thinks we can even get a grant to fund some addtional beautifying agents (i.e. paints, and more :o) Who knows were this could lead! I'm especially thankful for this connection because it begins to meet one of my goals for the QMB LEAP program this fall which is emphasizing health and fitness in our programing. I'm dreaming up simple cooking programs and fitness challenges that we might use to make this a fun theme throughout the year. I'd love to get the kids out on a field trip or two as well for a hike in Fairmount Park or to do the AIDS walk. Don't know about liability yet but the wheels are turning.

I'm enjoying the quieter days now that TSI has wrapped up and all of the follow-up office work is completed. I'm even begining to get into my studio work and have decided to begin to assemble work for a mixed media show at the Other Green Line this fall.

couldn't resist putting a few more on!

love the composition

the beautiful sublime of the mediteranian and the mountains

@the ruins of Delphi, Greece

RIP Jim Morrison

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after arriving home from europe i swiftly adapted to the pace of my last week of LEAP (my afterschool job with the library), regular PIC hours and preparation for TSI (my directors assistant position with the Teachers Summer Institute @ Moore). my TSI prep lead right into a full week of 24 hour details and all sorts of "gold" behaviors (True Colors reference for all of you Res Lifers out there :o). it was exhausting but informative and rewarding. not to mention i may have made some art teaching contacts, AND Moore paid me like a normal person...in one week i earned what i make in a month between PIC and LEAP. praise God for his provision! this was the only way i could miss nearly a month of work and yet make ends meet. talk about mysterious and wonderful ways!

by the way, here are a few photos from my trip. more to come soon!

love, aud xoxo

these things are hard to catch! -

sam: wow that bird is really talented!

bonjour!

lean back

cacti and communism, all is a day of sightseeing in florence

breathtaking Trevi fountain...incredible!

**will post more soon!

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I made it safely home! :o)

This trip was amazing! I'm already thinking about when I'll be able to return! I hope to type up a few segments of my journal and put them in here. Thankfully I managed to keep a scrapbook/ sketchbook/ journal as I traveled. It was a lot of fun to create as I went, although I never had much time to sketch...the finished product is a tactile quilt of sorts. In addition I took about 800 photos along the way. I'll be and Chris' tonight uploading them and attempting to place them on an accessible site.

I hope to chat with you all soon!

Much love! - Aud

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we've made it to rome! we're staying just beyond the old city walls by a section of the roman aqueduct system. its so bazaar to be surrounded by such history and then see the mcdonalds on the corner and the graffiti sprayed all over the walls. laurent (our fabulous guide/friend) assures us that the city will soon become the most beautiful we've ever seen. we just have to get beyond the outskirts. our hotel is situated in a sketchy neighborhood...it seems the large city hotels are the worst. i suppose to make this all affordable they must book the cheap hotels.

at any rate, lets talk about things that matter :o)

we stopped in assisi on our way to rome today for lunch and to spend time in the basilica - i can not believe i was there standing in a chapel covered by frescos by giotto and cimubua... they were breathtaking! we were on the side of one of the mountains at the lower end of the alpines. assisi is nestled here and from the basilica we overlooked a huge valley. i felt the awe and magnificence of the sublime, an indescribable spiritual awareness. i was in tears.

tomorrow we're off to the vatican and to the trevi fountain in the evening.

this internet shop is just a few doors down from the hotel. i hope to be on again. we'll be in rome for three nights. then off to pompeii, delphi and athens.

bon giorno! *muah*