#COLOR ME CRAZY MANUAL#

Thomas said they need 10 to 12 men of color to serve as mentors this year. “They meet every other week and we have a group of about 10 7th grade boys of color who are mentored by men of color in our community, who want to connect with our students and want to tell them about their career paths and ways to get them ready for their future,” Thomas said. Thomas said at McAuliffe, the program focuses on 7th graders.

#COLOR ME CRAZY MANUAL#

“It is so important to connect our students to this community and to connect our community to our students as well,” said Savannah Thomas, counselor at McAuliffe Manual Middle School. The Coach Mentoring program is entering its third year and partners with individuals and companies across the city, connecting them with more than 20 DPS middle and high schools in the district. The colourful bits are hard sugar icing.įrom left clockwise: satay and ketupat, sambal kangkong, wantan mee From left clockwise: ice kacang, more satay and a satay stall.įrom left to right: rambutan, mangosteen and duku langsat.DENVER - The Denver Public Schools Career Development Coach Mentoring program is searching for more men of color to serve as mentors at McAuliffe Manual Middle School and several other schools this year. I still don’t know what these little biscuit things are called but I used to eat them all the time when I was little. The dried up wrinkly things are assamboi (sour-salty dried plum things) and pickled green mangoes. So, instead of blabbing on about how stressed I am, here are photos from our recent (food-oriented) Malaysian holiday!Ī couple of photos at dusk from Perhentian Besar.

I’m a little too stressed out to blog properly at the moment as we’re in the middle of yet another move! This time to the UK! Well, theoretically to the UK as I’m still waiting for my visa and we’re due to leave in a couple of days! So anyone who’s tired of living in France because of all the red tape blah blah blah, don’t even think about moving across La Manche! The people are still talking a whole other language here!įirst of all, I’m a day early but Happy Merdeka day to all the Malaysians out there! Oh, and then the English bank man tells us that when we come back in to open the joint account, we should allow at least 45 minutes per person. Then English bank man says that I really should change my maiden name to my married name. English bank man says: no job, no name on account. So Hubs explains that we’re married so his income is my income. Hubs on the other hand, can open an account because he has a job. And secondly, I don’t have a job so I can’t even put my first name on that joint account. So off we went to the bank.Įnglish bank man says that firstly, I can’t have my maiden name on the joint account, it has to be my married name. Hubs is employed, I’m not (I've been here 1 week!), and I still have my maiden name. I just got hyphenated but we had our joint account in less than 30 minutes.Īcross La Manche, same situation. In the end, she compromised, and my surname on our joint account was “maidenname-marriedname”.

This was obviously a problem for me as all my ID has my maiden name on it.įrench bank lady even told me that I should change my name immediately! She even got quite huffy about the whole situation. The French bank lady said that she couldn’t put my maiden name on the joint account as I was married. We went to the bank and wanted to open a joint account. In France, when I first arrived, the Hubs had a job but I didn’t. I don’t have anything against changing my surname I’m just too lazy to do all the paperwork. Part of all this chagrin is me keeping my maiden name and not officially changing my surname to Hubs’ surname the very second I got married. I never thought I’d ever hear myself say this but I miss France!Įverything almost seems easy in France compared to England! Yes, yes, I can hear all you French expats muttering that I’ve been drinking too many cups of tea without milk over here but let me give you one example that probably says it all for me.

Color me crazy