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In July, Middle School English teacher Jessica Hecht and students and teachers from all over the region traveled to Poland through the Classrooms Without Borders program. This is her story. […]
Here is a quick view of the people, places and experiences we had on the Seminar to Poland.
Every time a start a project like a blog, I promise myself that disability is one subject I won’t write about–partly because I don’t want to throw a pity party, […]
July 4, 2012 When my feet hit the floor and it caved a little, the creak echoing through the long room, the same creak that so many suffering feet […]
Auschewitz, Fri 7/7, I have just seen a place beyond comprehension. It is different from Majdanek, which oppressively crushes emotion out of us. Here, the fear is created in the […]
From Majdanek, 3 days ago, overdue, but here it is finally.) It is difficult to describe what I feel after seeing what I have just seen. Most of my emotions […]
Here are a few images from Poland.
After Majdanek, while I sat, shaken, Kyle Smith–my history teacher from Shady Side–told me something that I don’t think that I’ll forget. I’d commented on how odd, how seemingly wrong, […]
Deuteronomy 30:19 proclaims “I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live.” My father has often quoted […]
Plung is not an exceedingly common surname. In fact, other than my family, I know of only one other Plung individual, and I assume that, somewhere along the line, there […]