ready to roll..

i know that it is likely that people are uninterested in what i have to say until the actual teaching part of this journey begins, however i feel compelled to write something if for no other reason than i almost always have something i can ramble on about (note the subtitle of the blog)

i'm currently in auburn, and as each day passes i become more and more ready to get started with all of this. i have done all the talking i can possibly do about my new opportunity with teach for america. i am ready to actually do something. thursday is the big day, i travel to mississippi to meet with different principals and interview in order to be placed in a school district. i won't find out about my exact placement until sometime at institute, which is causing me a little bit of nervousness.

as i previously stated, i'm just ready to do this thing. in reading the assigned work, reflecting on these readings in writing form, talking to people about tfa, reading about the delta, etc, i just get more and more excited and more and more nervous at the same time. the continued theme of all of this seems to be: "this is an great opportunity that will make you a much better person, but its going to suck majorly at times." this opinion(which seems to be widely held by most involved in the program) for obvious reasons is the subject of much concerned excitement at this point.

i am tempted to go on a long rant about these books i've been reading lately. i've been doing a lot of reading about postmoderism, deconstruction, philosphy, and religion (most of it is written on a very simplistic level though, don't worry i'm not as smart i want to sound) anyway, the ideas i have gardered from these books are not developed well enough to try to rant about them even in my ranting zone over here in blog world. i also don't want to make myself an oppurtune target for the criticism that would surely befall my leftist, liberal, watered-down, heretical beliefs. however, if anybody is interesed in reading up on this stuff here's what i've been reading. brian mclaren (a new kind of chrisitian, the story we find ourselves in, everything must change) jack caputo (what would jesus deconstruct) and robin meyers (saving jesus from the church) oh yeah and i'm also working on the appeal by john grishman but he hasn't mentioned postmodern philosphy yet. but if anybody is interested in talking about any of this good stuff, let me know. (unelss you want to tell me that all of the books i just listed were written by pagan racketeers that are sending me down a path to hell.) at least let me get my beliefs about what they are saying in order before you condemn me with them. ok that's enough... oh i just got my address for houston so if you want to send me some mail for some reason.....

Levi Rogers/Corps Member
c/o Teach For America
University of Houston
Moody Towers
4401 Wheeler Street
Houston, TX 77004