Well I’m somewhere in Richmond starting my first day as Lead RA for a Spanish immersion program. I’m more like a “camp counselor” than anything, but the official title is RA. I attended in 2005 as a student where I met my current BFF/Facebook husband, Harris!
H&M, Being amazing since 2005
And I returned last year as an RA!
I swear we're normal. (This was in preparation for the inter-academy Olympics, we didn't dress like this all the time... maybe)
I loved my staff last year and this year I was hired as Lead RA, which gives me a lot more responsibility. I pretty much work directly with the director to run the program. There are 60 kids (rising juniors & seniors in high school) and 12 faculty in total (including 6 RAs and 6 teachers) and it lasts for 3.5 weeks — kids move in Saturday! It is kind of the coolest job EVER for nerds like me. Also I have huge emotional ties to the program since I met two of my best friends there (Harris’s twin brother Jeremy was also in the program!) and many other great people. And last summer I fell in love with my staff and one is coming back to work for me this year! Yay! I even got Harris & a college friend a position within the French program!! (There are programs for 8 languages, but only Spanish, French, and German are total immersion, ie NO English!)
I will be blogging but I’m not sure yet what the schedule will be and how often but please be patient and keep checking back. Hopefully I’ll have great stories of the stupid things my kids say and I’ll let you know how my fitness & eating goes as I live in a college dorm again!
The idea of working with junior/seniors in high school sounds horrifying to me. i’m glad you have the patience!
it is horrifying sometimes, especially when they act too old for their age!! but the kids who come here have been nominated and selected by the state dept of education, so we usually get good kids!
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our anniversary is tomorrow!!!!!
YAYYYYY
How exciting!! Congrats on the job and the leadership position! When you are able to blog, though, please do it in English. My Spanish is a bit rusty.
Have a fabulous few weeks!!
hahah I will write in English, no worries
and thanks!
I was an RA for girls of a similar age at a leadership academy…it definitely made for lots of stories though our cafeteria’s food was pretty foul!
oh my gosh the stories….. the cafeteria here isn’t terrible, but you get tired quickly with 3 squares a day there.