141/365 Saturday, 05/21/2011

This a picture of the town where I'll be living as of August this year. It's a nice university town...a bit sleepy in the summer (bit not as catatonic as Albion tends to be unfortunately) and I'm sure full of life once school starts in August.The University has almost ten times the number of students that Albion has--so it's no wonder they are much more of a presence in the town--which is actually population wise (w.o. students) a bit smaller than Albion. I'm looking forward to it and have already busied my self with list-making and move-planning...( I'm a big list-maker, planner...) 

140/365 Friday, 05/20/2011

Bill and I decided to take a somewhat spontaneous road trip to the town and university where I will be living and working for the upcoming academic year, August 2011-May 2012.

This all happened very suddenly and unexpectedly, but in the end I'm happy I'll be working again and getting paid and benefits and all that good stuff...As I have mentioned elsewhere on this blog when all the sad/bad stuff went down in 2010 I made the decision to forgo the terminal year of teaching in order to more quickly gain some psychic distance to what happened. It was the right thing to do, but I'm glad I'll be teaching again in the fall. Our route took us almost due South right through Berne, Indiana--which happens to be home to a large Amish population.  I'm glad I was able to be discreet when I got this shot--it's kind of strange to be taking pictures of people just going about their business. Berne, Indiana is also interesting because of it's rather imposing clock tower which is a replica of one in the other Berne, the capital of Switzerland.