Greetings from Philadelphia,
This week I began my two year commitment with Teach for America. For those of you unfamilar with the program check out the website at www.teachforamerica.org. We had the Mid-Atlantic Induction from Tuesday until Saturday. This includes all corps members from Philadelphia,Camden, and Wilmington. Tomorrow we migrate to Temple where I will be staying for the next 5 weeks. This is when our Institute begins which is essentially a five-week crash course in Inner City teaching. Things are going very well. I went to look at apartments earlier today and found some nice places that are affordable and convenient. Tonight we are going to a Camden Riversharks game which should be a nice change of pace. Our 2009 TFA corps is a really impressive group of people. I've met a bunch of Harvard, Yale, MIT, and Brown grads which is awesome. Apparently there were nearly 40,000 applicants this year for just over 4,000 spots so they definately tried to get the best and the brightest (I must have gotten in by mistake). Alright, well I need to finish some laundry and maybe try to go for a run. I will try to update this on a regular basis and keep you up to date on my life
Good things and much love...
Mark
