More Than a Feeling

i'm completely in love with milwaukee in the fall. today was the fall harvest festival on brady street, and it was so much fun to walk around and enjoy the beauty of the season.

the meet and greet at maple tree was very successful for us! i now have connections with the pastor of west granville presbyterian, a society for community members in granville, and growing power, and they all want to be involved in maple tree's Action Team! i'm getting very little enthusiasm from teachers, though. having discussed this at friday's team meeting at parents plus, i'm deciding to schedule our first meeting for October 22nd. this will give me time to talk to teachers about getting involved, even though i plan on holding the meeting either way. if no teachers join by then, my hope is that they will express interest once they learn more about what the Action Team will do.

things are really picking up right now schedule-wise. last night i went to a resource fair for latino families at south division high school with cara after we finished work at parents plus. im attending two days worth of workshops by joyce epstein this coming week (SO excited!!!). maple tree has parent-teacher conferences on next friday and saturday, which will coincide with kelly's visit. Of course, there's also the governance council meeting on this coming monday and vincent high school's open house on the 13th, which i have to attend so i can pass out ses materials.

i'm getting a lot of positive responses from parents about attending the governance council meeting, which im very happy about! well, except from the one parent who yelled at me about the PTO's decision to give treats to students who come to school in uniform. i'm still amazed that i kept my cool during that conversation.

and now for the good news...MY QUEST CARD CAME IN THE MAIL TODAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

of course, it came after i went food shopping

my concern is that yesterday i received a letter from foodshare that they need proof of citizenship and a copy of my lease, both of which i faxed to them in august. im going to call them on monday to see whats going on with that.

anyway, im baking brownies in celebration, so im going to get started on that!