Saturday, June 28, 2014

Week 26 of BZ Adventure - the official end

June 21 - 27

Well Lennie is gone to Quebec - awesome!!!  That means I can organize and clean without him seeing some of the stuff I am throwing out.  I am going to tackle the basement first as I have a ton of stuff from my educational career that I need to organize before next Friday when I move to the new school.

I was able to get it all down to 16 boxes!!! The garbage men with thrilled with all the garbage and recycling.  I was thrilled as we have nothing left in the basement and I have only kept the extra special student work plus all my stuff I need for admin.

This is our last official week of the sabbatical - even though we do not work in the summer - well I have to work the first week of July and last week of August - our leave official ends June 30th so this will be last post of the BZ Adventure.

I have learned a ton.  Mostly, that we don't need so much stuff, the world is actually quite small but very special.  We will be doing this leave again in 5 years and I look forward to planning it and seeing where it leads.

This week we also celebrate our 21st wedding anniversary - WOW.  While I took a ton of photos on our trip, these are a few of my favourite of us.








Week 25 of BZ Adventure

June 14 - 20

Spent the week working on my doctorate course.  An assignment was a book review on any leadership book that is not on the course syllabus.  I chose Dr. Dennis Spark's book Leading For Results.

Once you submitted your book review you were to create an on line presentation of your book summarizing it for your colleagues.  Some people did power point things and of course I racked my brain to do something unique.  I learn how to use imovie and using my phone, I made this video.  Everyone liked it, including Dr. Sparks who I sent it to first for approval (I sent him my paper too and he gave me an A+).

Check out video presentation of the book Leading for Results


Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Week 24 of BZ Adventure

June 7 - 13

It's Lennie's birthday week so you know what that means - its all about him.  Oh wait, he is away at a poker tourney - AWESOME!!! I took a lot of photos of him on our trip and these are just a few showing how awesome and fun he was to travel with - Happy Birthday babe.














Week 23 of BZ Adventure

May 31 - June 6

This week has been so great because we celebrated my big brother Jeff's 50th birthday with a wonderful party and then we got to celebrate my mom's 75 birthday.  Anyone who knows my mom and brother know that they are great people.

What's been fun is that my mom is now on Facebook so she gets to see everything live and day by day.  People always told her about our adventures but now she gets to be part of them.  She's so cool.

Another thing I have been working on is my course for my doctorate.  This course is pretty good with great readings and all the same people from the other courses.  We are a cohort and I like that aspect of the program.





I saw this photo on Twitter the other day and it really spoke to me.  I asked the person where this is and they said it is in Philadelphia, well I am definitely going to see it real life someday.
The other thing I have been reflecting on recently is my leadership.  As everyone knows I love Lincoln and continue to be inspired but what he accomplished in a short period of time and in a difficult time.  Saw this picture on Twitter in which someone shared a photo of his first day in office and then 5 years later.  Yes, leadership ages you.  What am I going to do to stay healthy, happy, and young?


Friday, June 6, 2014

Week 22 of BZ adventure

May 24 - 30

Great week of fun, friends, and gardening.

Was looking through our trip photos and giggled at the photos from our cruise in which our cruise cabin captain made awesome towel animals each day.