December Post

Happy New Year! This post is briefly recapping my progress through my project for the past semester. It won't be filled with a lot of checked boxes because of the slightly amorphous nature of the undertaking at this point.  

My biggest accomplishment thus far, I think, has been to settle on my purpose and focus in writing about RISSE. Other than that, I have been able to start everything I was hoping to have started by this point except for writing, which was an ambitious goal anyway. I’ve visited RISSE several times since the semester started, handed out consent forms—sometimes twice, because children had lost them—and even started some disastrous interviewing. I say “disastrous” because I was asking questions of eleven-year-olds like they were politicians, ready with sound bites and pithy remarks about something—their experience coming to America—that, in reality, they barely have words for.


What these children do have words for is that annoying kid in class, or the new purse they just got, or how their mom had to work on their birthday and they missed celebrating with her. This New Year, my resolution is to follow those leads and see where they take my story.

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  1. UnknownJanuary 11, 2018 at 10:24 AM

    Your project continues to progress nicely and remains interesting! I appreciate your consistent effort and I am excited by what you will accomplish by the end of they year. I am quite glad that you connected with an alum. Congratulations on all that you accomplished and best of luck moving forward!

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