Awaiting our take off from Charlotte to JFK in New York. We had our first meeting in which we went over the code of conduct and and health related issues and all students have their own copy of their foreign medical insurance cards.

UPDATE:  we just landed in New York a little ahead of time and I won’t be giving the minute by minute throughout this process but I did want to report that our two new flyers who’ve never been on planes before were old pros and we will be ready for our overnight flight in JFK. I hope for several daily updates from a variety of students and two assignments have already been given. I also encourage you as the reader of this blog to ask questions, comment, or offer suggestions throughout the trip that we are sharing with you. It is quite a pleasure to travel with these students and I hope that I can see this trip through their eyes as they will be seeing it through mine as well. As I have   Told my students at the beginning of the semester and August that I don’t see teaching and learning as a giving and receiving relationship but rather I see us all as coal learners exploring a wondrous cave together, each of us with our own headlamp pointing out to each other items of interest and new ways of seeing. I hope this trip brings you all new ways of seeing!!