Hello Reconciliation Community,

I am currently living in northern California, and as such have not been
able to meet you all in person.  However, I have been keeping up with your
emails and will continue to communicate virtually!!

My project this year revolves around the following topics: Latin American
Studies, Sociology, Globalization, and Education.  Fall quarter I have
been and will be reading books on these subjects and conducting research
on Venezuelan current events and on The World Social Forum to be held in
Caracas, Venezuela in January.  I plan on attending the WSF with a group
called Global Exchange, which is leading a fascinating tour to both the
WSF and to different parts of Venezuela to meet with communities and
organizations that are part of the peaceful revolutionary process taking
place there. You  can find out more about Global Exchange’s program at
http://www.globalexchange.org/tours/722.html and more about the Forum at
http://www.wsf2006.org/.

After the tour, which runs from January 23 to February 4, I will be
staying on in Venezuela.  I plan to travel to the city of Merida to do a
3-month TESL internship at VEN-USA College of International Studies and
Modern Languages.  Last year in the Patience program I tutored ESL to
immigrants and refugees and created sample lesson plans for the ESL
classroom (among other things).  This year I hope to put my ideas into
practice in the classroom, always keeping Freire’s Pedagogy in the
forefront of my mind.

I am not sure when I would like to present.  It would have to be late
spring quarter or possibly summer quarter, if that option will again be
available as it was after Patience.  I would like Raul Nakasone to be my
primary faculty.

My pre-Venezuela (pre-January 20) book list is as follows:
•	A Framework for Understanding Poverty by Ruby K. Payne, Ph.D.
•	A Story of Suffering and Hope by Eileen McNerney, CSJ
•	The Call of Service: A Witness to Idealism by Robert Coles 
•	Economics Explained by Robert Heilbroner and Lester Thurow
•	The World is Flat: A Brief History of the 21st Century by Thomas L.
Friedman
•	Hugo Chavez and the Bolivarian Revolution by Richard Gott
•	The Battle of Venezuela by Michael McCaughan
•	The Memory of Fire Trilogy by Eduardo Galeano
       o	Genesis (Book I)
       o	Faces and Masks (Book II)
       o	Century of the Wind (Book III)

Please let me know if you have an interest in these topics or in
Venezuela, or suggestions that would aid me in my travels.  Take care!!!
Jenny Knight                                  RETURN