Externship

So essentially I have no summer. That's exaggerating. I do have a month off towards the end, which is more time than most get so I will shut up now. I don't like downtime so this is a good thing anyways.

We get out of school/work on June 15. I will be in Santa Fe for my NEH program from June 17 - 23. We are in NH for a wedding I am in June 29-July 1. I almost just typed June 31... Then I am teaching summer school from July 9-20. And I just received an externship at the Willard Clock Museum in Grafton, MA from July 23-27. And then Scott & I are in a wedding in Rhode Island August 17-19. I am then back at work August 27.  And there are various other events happening throughout the summer as well.

The Willard Clock Museum thing came up because we got an email about doing externships to learn how to apply our degrees in other ways than teaching so we then could pass that info off to our students. Most kids think the only thing you can do with a history degree is teach so I applied to work at any museum and was accepted by this one. I did some research and found out it was a clock museum, the guy's name wasn't Willard Clock so at first I was a little disappointed. However I spent an hour with them yesterday talk about what this will entail. I will be shadowing them for about a day. It's a small staff. And then I will help them catalogue some items that have been left around. But what's really exciting is that it looks like I will be receiving a grant through them to be a videographer for them throughout the year. It starts June 2 at an Alpaca Shearing festival. I will make a video for them of that and if they like it, I will be hired to do it for the entire museum as well as events throughout the year. I am really looking forward to putting my video skills to use and practicing.

And in between all of this I am taking a 6 week course that requires 6-8 hours of reading a week from June 6 - July 25.