StoryCorps' New West Coast Headquarters at the Public Library

http://www.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/new-recording-site-dedicated-for-storycorps-at-main-library/Content?oid=2710347

Classes went pretty well on Friday.  I'd invited a guest speaker to class--Felicia King a Personal Counselor at the Student Health Center--and sent the students in my speaking-listening classes a message telling them she'd be coming and asking that they make a special effort to be on time.  I got to class early to give two make-up tests.  One of the students--someone who's a caregiver for a 98-year-old woman and whose grandfather recently had a heart attack--was absent again, but the other student I came early to help came in late and, unlike the other late arrivals (there were four) did not sit close to the door but crossed in front of the speaker and sat in her usual seat.  It's time to get out the Berkeley Rep advisory about No Late-Comers Seated. 

After class I went to the downtown public library because I'd heard that Story Corps had its new West Coast headquarter there and there'd been an event in the morning.  My students in the academic ESL reading and writing class had read two write-ups of the interviews as printed in Listening Is an Act of Love, so I wanted to find out more for them as well as for Jonathan and me.  (Mom had already reached the stage of being afraid to go out when I found out about it.)

But first I wanted to hand-deliver the copy of The Marriage Act I'd written notes in because Beth and I had talked earlier about sharing it, and she couldn't get together with me on Friday after all because of a doctor's appointment that her care-give had just called her about.  I went to the Civic Center Campus, where I used to sub from time to time and one evening even had a class.  IT was so quiet.  The office was locked, as so was the teachers room.  Maybe they have too many people just walking in off the street.  Two people were in the library upstairs, but it was so quiet.  I called Beth a couple of times on my cell phone, and then I went into a classroom that was open, and the person there told me that Beth had come in earlier and then left for her doctor's appointment.  So I left the book with this teacher, who said she'd put it in Beth's box, and lef the very quiet building.

Friday we had some very good news about our college--that we won't be getting pink slips.  (I'm giving myself the pink slip by retiring.)  Also there was a good article by Nanette Asimov on students showing how CCSF has helped them fulfill their dreams.