Home sweet home

I haven't posted in about 3 months.
But I've thought about how to do THIS post all that time. Having come to no definitive conclusion as to 'strategy' I'm just going to wing it. Here goes...

Leaving San Francisco (in early March), my homesickness had turned into a full blown cold. As I began the three-day intensive HoopGirl Level 3 Teacher Training, I was sniffling and slightly worn down. Bummer. I still relished the training, but with much less expressed enthusiasm than normal, even sitting out for a few of the teaching practicums to save my strength for my own.

Here are a couple of photos from the training... we spent half the time working with Zoom hoops, which are small and not intended for body hooping! Thanks to ScottKPhotography for these!






I had a fantastic time, learned a lot, and am so grateful to be part of the teaching community established through Christabel "HoopGirl" Zamor's hard work and dedication to hoopdance and joy. Check out her latest project: Hooping (the book!) http://thehoopingbook.wordpress.com/

After sniffling in San Francisco I flew to sneezing in Portland. Some young friends of mine invited me to their apartment, and I even tried to sneak out of the invite because I knew I wasn't feeling 100% and I didn't want to inflict myself on them. Little did we all know...

After a week of enjoying the sights (THANKS SKY, CODY, REBEKAH AND LAUREN! AND THANKS for the heads up on the slam, Anis!) and visiting The Village Free School (a really great school... one of my two favorites while traveling) I became VERY VERY ill: fever, chills, cough, bloodshot eyes, and without voice... IT WAS THE FLUUUUUU! Luckily it was before the swine flu scare, but it was a REALLY AWFUL instant sickness. And Portland did not help- the air there was too cold and wet for me to feel comfy. After a terrible sleepless week I booked a ticket to Orlando, rented a car and drove to my mom's house in Gainesville... where I slept for a week. After one more week helping out around my mom's house and hanging out with my good friend Veronica and her awesome child Naim, I packed up once more to head back down south. HOME....

Settling in took a little while. I'm living at my mom's old house in Boynton Beach (though the mailing address is Lake Worth... weird.) with my friend Steve. Another roommate just moved in: Andrew the accupuncturist! We call this place the Make Worth house, and since returning I've been hard at work making worthwhile things:
The Slam at Dada
Helping with the National Poetry Slam (West Palm Beach this August)
The SAFE Slam @ NPS (a slam training for teachers)
Postcards from the Education Revolution
Lake Worth Unschooling group
Florida Native Plants book
Native Offerings III invite
Rise Out Loud Workshops at the WPB Library (starting in August)
AND>>>>>
STARTING MY HOOPDANCE BUSINESS!!!!

Check out my website: www.hoopsofly.com!
Classes will begin at Downtown Dance in Lake Worth (formerly Klein Dance) when I return from my graduate school residency at Naropa in July! Look out Lake Worth... the hoopers are COMING!!!