FOUR PAWS ONE CAUSE

This is my beautiful Rosa Parks fam! 

So, today was my second full day in Sacramento, and I have to say I'm really glad I'm here! I love this team and I love City Year. I love the way the staff at the school has been responding to us being there as well! I feel that I am constantly surrounded by people who are willing to go the extra mile for people. For example, one of the assistant principles today was talking to us about how he used to try and say Buenos Dias to his Spanish speaking students to let them know he cared about their culture. When he was doing this, other students were annoyed that he was only giving this special attention to those students, so since then this principle has learned greetings in German, French, Miao, Panjabi, and Chinese. We need more people like this in our world.

Our Rosa Parks school is going through a big transformation. Last year it served as a 7-8 middle school, but this year as a result of low funding, budget cuts, and low enrollment the elementary school is merging in, making Rosa Parks a K-8 school as of September 2nd. There is a lot to be done to make a transformation like this a success. For now, many of the teachers have been in training doing different things, so my team's focus has been on creating goals, team building, creating plans, and doing what we can to help. Our team's mission statement for this year is: 

As leaders, we have the responsibility to empower and build a stronger community that will serve as a catalyst for positive change while establishing a legacy of success.  

I'm really excited to start meeting teachers and kids! And today we got to make cards to be sent out to all the different City Year sites in our area and the nation! That was wonderful! I love making cards! 

Can you guess one of the ones I made? ;)
I spy a lone star!

Still looking for housing, but I think I'll have somewhere by the end of the week!

Peace!