How I Spent A Big Chunk of My Summer Vacation

I spent two weeks of June at Manhattan, Kansas - the Little Apple - attending a CASE (Curriculum for Agricultural Science Education) Animal Science Institute. I left Holyoke on Father's Day and proceeded to have some of the most amazing educational times of my life. I think this will help me be a better teacher.

So, if you were wondering why you have not seen a letter from me, this is the cause.

I have quite a few more photos of what I learned. You can see some of them in previous posts. I won't post them all because I am photo challenged.

And no, I am not in any of those pictures because I was behind the camera. But I am in this silly little posed thing at Kites Sports bar (99c sliders - a really small burger)

Writing contest entry

In my uber geeky world of fountain pen use, I cruise the Fountain Pen Network for conversations about using this archaic instrument of written mayhem. The Penmanship section can be inspiring. This thread A Contest Worth Writing For peaked my interest so I scrawled off an entry. I stand no chance at all in winning, but it was a fun diversion.

If you want to see some fantastic writing, read that thread. It just might encourage you to slow down your writing, grab a fountain pen and play around a little bit.

Labeling the parts

Here I am with the appropriate safety gear, having just labeled all of the parts of a porcine female reproductive tract.

This will explain why I have not been writing back to my pen friends. I will get back to it next week when I am home.

Fw: Reproductive dissection

Not letter related, but here is a group of my colleagues examining a sheep reproductive tract- the male type. Later I will be dissecting a female sheep reproductive tract. This is the start of week 2 of my class on animal science curriculum