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Play Across the Pond – Part 2

As an official employee of the US Play Coalition, I take my duty to play very seriously. I know play builds a happy, healthy brain, thus I endeavor to play as much as possible including while participating in an international conference, something others might consider a rather formal event. For my part, during the 2nd Global Making Sense of: Play Conference (okay, so it wasn’t like I was playing during a gathering of nuclear physicists) I seized a great opportunity to engage in imaginative play and pretend I was an Oxford University student. If for only a few days, I could live out my Rhodes Scholar dream, which is what they most certainly were in looking back, but that’s another matter.

Here is the pictorial version of my life as an Oxford student, and who knows, maybe my dream will come true one day.

If I was an Oxford student, I might be a member of Mansfield College, the Nonconformist college - seems like it would be a good fit.
If I was an Oxford student, I might be a member of Mansfield College, the Nonconformist college – seems like it would be a good fit.

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Play Across the Pond – Part 1

photoTwo weeks later and I am ready to reflect on the the 2nd Global “Making Sense of: Play” Conference. In Part 1, I will focus on the conference content. Part 2 will be an exploration of Oxford and my temporary, self-granted status as an Oxford student. Business first: Continue reading Play Across the Pond – Part 1

Penguin Friends Forever

Two years ago, I bonded with a group of amazing people on an unlikely adventure. I knew volunteering at SANCCOB, a seabird rehabilitation center outside of Cape Town, South Africa, would be an experience, but I had no idea I would make lifelong friends and two years later reconnect with three of them – Laura, Eve, and Annmarie – in their home countries. Here is the picture diary of our reunion:

(Housekeeping update: Post on the conference is coming. I am still processing the experience.)

I thought it would be appropriate to start with pictures of us from two years ago.

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From left to right: Angela, Laura, Clarise, Annmarie, Carly, Lauren, Becky.

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