Saturday November 20th Celebrating Mary Davey

When I was with my grandmother all day Friday and Saturday, I was holding her hand.

Dear Friends,

As you know, long time enthusiast and wonderful friend of Committee for Green Foothills, Mary Davey, passed away of heart-related illness October 2nd.

Please join the family of Mary Davey, the Committee for Green Foothills, and Hidden Villa on November 20th 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. to honor the recent passing of Mary Davey with a “Wonderful, Marvelous Celebration of Life”. There will be light refreshments served and an open mike for “short” memory sharing.
November 20th
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Holbrook-Palmer Park
150 Watkins Avenue
Atherton, CA 94027

Car pooling is highly recommended as parking is extremely limited. For more information please contact the Committee for Green Foothills at 650-968-7243 x 314 or info@greenfoothills.org. Mary and her family request that donations be made to Committee for Green Foothills and Hidden Villa in lieu of flowers.

- The folks at Committee for Green Foothills
________________________________________________
Committee for Green Foothills

Our mission is to protect the open space, farmlands, and natural resources of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties through advocacy, education and grassroots action.

You have received this action alert because you are subscribed to Committee for Green Foothills' email alert list. To be removed from this list, please reply to this message with REMOVE in the subject line. To be added to this list and receive alerts about local open space issues, just send your name, address, and email address to info@GreenFoothills.org.

Novemeber 11th- A Great Day!

Thursday the 11th was such a good day. Honestly, it was a day I was dreading for about 5 days. But it turned out really well.

In the morning I had to wake up at 7 to take the 7:30 bus to school, since it was rainy and cold and I am not biking anymore, to get to a community partner coffee hour for my program assistant job at the Office of Experiential Learning for undergrad students at Brandeis. It was great, I was tired but got muffins and coffee- Dunkin Donuts is so popular out here, it's madness. After talking to some great community organizations and some new professors, I ran to class- NGOs: Strategic Planning with the director and founder of the program who teaches it. It was a good class, then I went to the first Education Working Group Meeting at my school- which is great to be a part of since I want to focus on education. Then I stopped by a development symposium where some experienced development practitioners gave us some really great advice- asking questions is free, don't fear yourself, develop passion in others and whatnot-- very encouraging. After my 2 hour lunch break I had an ECON TEST! I was really not looking forward to this, but it paid off all the studying and I feel good about it. Then I went straight to a talk on Brazil by a man named Larry Rohter who is a Times correspondent and wrote The Rise of Brazil. Wow, did I learn a lot- like Brazil is the world's 7th largest economy and their major export to the US is planes. Also that 200 million people in the country are almost all formally incorporated into the formal economy which is why it has been growing so rapidly, and they now have a female president. Brazil is also holding the next World Cup and Olympics! Ok enough about Brazil- but I definitely want to learn portuguese now! Then I went straight to Planning and Implementation where we were doing an activity I did already in another class, so I left the class to see NOAM CHOMPSKY who was speaking on our campus. Then After P/I class I went to the Watch City Brewery by my house on the main street called Moody for a friend in the programs birthday and had a great time- then woke up and got to work at 9am the next morning!

A good day....

Colonization in a Visual

In my International Development program we talk a lot about poverty and colonization. From my Geographic Informations Systems/Science course I am taking, I am learning to map on the computer different issue over time for a visual data representation. Here is a very cool data visual of colonization over the years- and Brittain is the villain in this story.

Check it out: http://bit.ly/bWNyQz

Noemie from France Visits and Halloween

Alright, I need to put up pictures from the last month. Noemie, my good friend from France came and visited me while on a business trip from her French company and I was sooo happy to have her.









Also here is a little Halloween in Salem with Bree and Kristina and her brother in from NYC!

Parlez Vous Francais?

I just have to say I love my program at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management. I am taking a Communications for Impact module class, 7 weeks long, and am learning about different ways to advocate for your cause through op-eds, PSAs and whatnot and during break one of my Ukranian friends was speaking French to a Moroccan guy talking about the weather. I love the languages and people in my program! Not to mention in my Planning and Implementation class another friend, Hama and this American Amy were speaking the native language of Niger called Fulfulde (one of 8 main languages). LOVE IT!

And I am excited to say that I am taking an intro to French class this spring (hopefully I will not confuse it with my spanish!)

Salem and Halloween in New England

Kristina, her brother Jonathan and our friend who lives in Boston Bree who is doing a Masters in Public Health at Boston University, and I went to Salem on Friday night after a long week of midterms and quizzes Monday through Friday. We picked Kristina's brother up from the T in Boston who came in from NYC (he is an actor) and headed to the witch town. After searching for parking in a crowded little town, we started off seeing many witch hats and very funny costumes. Tina and I dressed in black with witch hats and were enjoying the fruit basket group dressed as fruit, vampires, creepy killer guys from movies that I didn't know because I don't watch scary movies, and the ghosts too. We walked around the little downtown and then decided to do a haunted house tour- IN 3D!! Edward Cullen invited us in and I was laughing the whole time, it was not very scary but a big part of the experience. then we did a salem witch history tour and saw the big cemetery. Then we went to a bar and experienced some locals and spooky Halloween dancing- very fun! Definitely a good New England Halloween experience.

Saturday night one of the ladies in our program had a halloween party at her place and all the international students loved it celebrating Halloween for the first time. They were taking tons of pictures and loved the candied apples they made themselves. Then we went out into Cambridge and saw all the crazy costumes...again, fun!