I needed coffee, and an eclair sounded like just the thing to get me through writing a paper today. I walked into the neighborhood bakery, and only one other customer was there. I saw his iPad at one of the counter seats before I saw him.
I got my eclair and my coffee and sat two seats down from him. Their monumental eclairs take quite a while to eat, and I eat slowly (especially something delicious). So, it must have been quite a few minutes until he spoke to me because I was almost done.
He said he had just moved in the neighborhood, so I said, "welcome." He loved the walk to the bakery, and I said so did I - it helps keep me sane when I have a lot of work to do. We talked, and eventually he asked me what I was studying. Of course whenever I tell people "global ed" they don't really know what that means. So, I told him it had to do with technologies for learning, diversity, and issues of equity coming from a global perspective.
Hey! That's pretty good. I think I may finally have found a formula for answering that question. However, on the walk home I was thinking "I can't wait until I can just tell people about what I do and not what I'm studying." Right now (and that's about to end - thank God!), I am so ensconced with writing and reading for my classes, I can barely think about anything else!
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