Some news...

So, some of you may know by now, but for those of you who don't, the Center that I worked at this summer suffered extensive damage due to flooding brought on by two tropical storms that passed through San Cristobal last week.  We are pulling together emergency funds, and I am trying to find a venue that will donate its space for a benefit dinner within the next two weeks.  If anyone out there has any idea where this can be done, please pass the info along.  I have emailed/called several places, but most of them charge high fees to rent the space.  So I'm just not looking in the right place, because there has to be a place out there and I have to find it soon.

In other news, school is running relatively smoothly.  I was way behind the first few weeks, but then I dropped Biz Orgs, which saved my academic life.  It was way too much work and too confusing.  I didn't like the professor, and it made my schedule extremely difficult.  But now, things are really starting to flow, so I'm glad for that.

I went to New Orleans last weekend for the National Lawyer's Guild Convention (progressive lawyers/law students group).  It was three days full of panels and time well spent in the French Quarter.  The city was so inviting and fun.  I would love to go back!  And some of the panels were very powerful (especially one on housing as a human right, a particularly important issue in NOLA right now).  Made some great friends, and recentered myself on the work I'm doing.  It can be hard being a progressive law student and feeling like you just don't belong because you're not there for the same reasons that most other students are.  So it's really refreshing and encouraging to have a new group of friends who understand and relate!

Actress Rachael Albers (of DePaul and Chiapas fame) is in for the next couple of weeks.  She held an awesome panel on Theatre of the Oppressed, so many gold stars to her for coming back to DePaul and sharing her passion!

And more exciting news, my family has finally agreed not to celebrate Christmas this year!  I have been on that boat for years, but we always seem to get sucked up into it even after we say we don't want to.  But this year, everyone is seriously broke.  I'm hoping that this will influence them to see how backwards the holdiay is, but one step at a time I guess.  But good news for me, nonetheless!!

That's all for now because I have a billion things to do today.  But if you want to support the Centro in any way, or if you want to be invited to the dinner, let me know.

Peace in the Middle East!