Goodbye Village: last day of classes of my college career
ANOTHER MILESTONE IN WHAT has been a full week.. with another day to go.
Last night I wrote the last school paper of, likely, my life.
Today is the last day of classes I will, perhaps, ever endure, assuming I don’t cave and go to back for a post-secondary education. That means, after a morning religion class, during which I will hand in the last school paper I’ll ever write, I will go to the Village of Arts and Humanities for the last time as part of an independent study.
That seems particularly strange because I have working with the high schoolers at the rec center off Germantown in Fairhill since January 2007, 16 months, three semesters, a summer, startling.
It’s a hell of class. We mostly work on media projects, filming, editing and more, but I’ve always been more into hanging out with active, young people. A real excuse to beat the hell up on 16-year-old Leon in basketball, as captured by Eugene Martin in the above photograph, at the Fairhill Park.
Now that is something I will most certainly miss. While I have gone there during the academic year and beyond, because I recently accepted a gig in Harrisburg that relationship will almost certainly slow.
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Kumani
2 May, 2008
Chris,
This was really wonderful to read. Please stay in touch with the Village. I have greatly appreciated your amazing connection with our teens — and the profound transformation that has happened to you in your work with them.
Be well, and good journey.
Kumani Gantt
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