Evening Mounties,
Interesting Week. Not really sure where to start. What a revoltingly terrible and super awesome seven days I've had. Bad news first. I had a lot of work this week, its kind of a front-loaded semester. I got my first chance to stand up and deliver a full lesson to my jam-packed audience of Rena, Emily and Dr. Smith. It was about twenty minutes on the second wave of immigration; lets give it up for the Italians. I'm not really prone to hyperbole but I must say that I was the greatest and most powerful orator ever. Give or take. Downside, I didn't get the binder done that went along with it. Smith is being real merciful about the deadline. Oh yeah, Mercy College, I get it.

Wicked bummer No. 2. I got straight Bs in class this week. I'm fallin apart. It ok, I'm working hard to shake off the blues. I took a learning style test this week. As it turns out, everything is close to normal except that I got the highest rating possible in intuitive learning. Basically, I look at the big picture, survey the scene, then react like a Burmese Tiger...or that I'm disorganized and spacey. Not the best of traits you know.... for a president.

Oh, yeah. I was elected President of the brand new chapter of the PSEA right here at beautiful Mount Aloysius College. What is the PSEA, you ask? The Pennsylvania State Education Association, think teacher union. Yeah, its a branch of the National Education Association, only has something like 3.2 million members nationwide. Nothing big. Long story longer, The MAC education program is starting to take off. We really need the 1 million bucks worth of liability insurance, but there are a ton of other resources available through my new best buddies. Also we have to give it up for the rest of the officers, VP Sheena Yingling, Secretary Dawn Cunningham, and Treasurer Emily Ross. And while were at it, congratulations to all the new education majors about it make the Mountie PSEA chapter a shining example of educational achievement... For America! DePiro 08' USA, USA, USA!

Come on, it's an election year! I had to do it once. Quickly, next meeting is scheduled for Oct. 15 at 3:30 if you can't make it let one of the officers know. We got you covered. Umm... Steelers-ouch, do your homework, eat lots of fruit, register to vote, be good. I find myself in need of better organizational skills, Jess suggested getting a nice accordion folder, I'm gonna get one, but I'm gonna call it a Trapper Keeper(sweet). In your face maturity.

Dress well if you have a meeting, you never know when you may be elected president,
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To watch people getting smushed,
I seriously couldn't take it anymore. If football didn't come back I was gonna lose it. However, football has seen fit to return and be absolutely everywhere. There's so much I can't watch it all...and I've tried. The good and bad news is that I don't play football anymore. Good because I can focus on my school work; bad because I can't focus on my school work. Does that make sense? Sure it does, it's football season.

Now, if I can go non-meathead for just a few moments I can tell you about the week in education. I gave a presentation in Multi-Cultural class about the history of race in education. I could tell I was starting to lose the class, thanks to Adele, Jess, and Dr. Rutledge for asking me questions at the end, you guys are sweethearts. If you ever have trouble with an audience during a presentation, do what I do. I just think to myself, "Well, the worst thing they can do is rise up against me and overthrow my speech," which would just be fun to be a part of to tell you the truth. It might be like, I dunno, some kind organized melee where action comes from every angle and glory is just a few yards away. They really do need to think of a game that has that.

Just one last thing real quick. Anybody that is struggling in History needs to come see me in the Academic Hall 211 on Thursdays from 3:30 to 4:30. I am an awesome tutor and can make you brilliant at everything. Come on, give me some business or they'll kick me out. Or you can go visit or other open tutoring sessions in the Learning Center and the Library throughout the week. We make brain smart.

I can't hold it anymore. Football, football, football, football, football...FOOTBALL. Ok, I'm good, go do your homework.

Seriously, Football,
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Before I dive back into this educational ocean,
Hi Mounties, prospective Mounties, and DePiro fans in general. I haven't talked to you in a while, there's been a lot going on. After two years of being a student, I'm finally starting to do actual teacher stuff. Last Tuesday was the strangest combination of awesome, weird, and Back to the Future. Or Bill and Ted, I can't tell. I returned to my old high school which just happens to be Bishop Guilfoyle, one of the MAC's scholarship partners, to do observations for Dr. Smith's Intro to Middle and Secondary Education. It was strange because the week before I received an e-mail about my ten-year class reunion, the next thing I know, I'm sitting in my old teachers' classes watching a sea of uniforms moving in a slightly chaotic ballet of learning. A couple of times I almost started taking notes.

Dr. Smith has this rule about doing any teaching work at your old high school, but, luckily she bent the rules for me and Jim a little to accomodate our busy schedules. Oh, the wackiness. It was a truly unique experience. How could I not love it? Well, it's back to the grind. Homework doesn't do itself... or maybe? Anyways, Good Evening.

You can catch a really good nap in the Wulf Kuhn Gallery, but you didn't hear it from me,
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