Back to school... sort of

Hal writes:

RD Training began today. For people in my profession, that means summer is officially over and we will be staying busy through mid-October. During that time will be Resident Director Training, then Senior Assistant training, then Resident Assistant training, then orientation and move-in weekend, followed up by the first six weeks of school which brings us to homecoming. But, I hope to still have time to add some photos and comments along the way.

Training today was an "ease into the year". This morning I spent time with our two new RDs going over odds and ends about working at UWP. At lunch we were joined by the other RDs and our three Central supervisors. We got our schedule of events for RD Training and then spent some time in a relaxing get-to-know-you activity. Our theme for all of training is "Breaking New Ground" (construction) so we were all given a brick and a stack of magazines to modge podge pictures with. After the cutting and gluing, we all went around the circle and talk about what meaning the pictures had for us. Tonight's homework is to read some chapters from our RD manual.

Anna completed her paper today. She did a case study with one of her patients while on internship this summer and it was due today. Now that she has that complete, she wants to spend time unpacking more things. We have the "essentials" unpacked, but we are still only about 70% unpacked. We made the decision that the next time we move we are going to sell or give away a lot of things to make the move easier.

Special thanks to Jim for allowing me to interrupt his Texas vacation to listen to my student affairs problem.