My adventure has finally begun! Early, early yesterday morning I headed to Dulles Airport to catch a flight to LA. We left at 6:00 am and arrived at 8:30 am but the flight was 5 ½ hours long. How is that possible? From LA, we got on another plane headed for Honolulu. This flight left at 11:30 and arrived 2:45. We were in the air for 5 hrs and 15 minutes. Have you figured out how this is could be? When you move east or west around the earth, the time changes. DC is in the Eastern Time Zone but Hawaii is in the Hawaiian Time Zone and is 6 hours behind. When it is 7 am in DC it is 1 am in Hawaii. When we get to New Zealand on Thursday, we will cross the international date line. On one side of the line it is one day and on the other it is a different day. Why does the time change? Why don’t we have just one time zone all around the world? Here is a photo of the teachers I will be traveling with for the next 6 weeks. They are from all over the US and teach a variety of subjects and grades. I am excited to have the opportunity to learn about their home communities, their schools and their students as we travel. I am now at the Korean Studies Center at the University of Hawaii getting ready to start my trip orientation. I got a chance to check out beach culture at Waikiki Beach yesterday (photo coming as soon as I connect my camera) but other than that brief time we will be in class until we leave for New Zealand.
I hope you are all having a fabulous summer and are reading lots of great books. I am looking forward to hearing about your book and real life adventures in September. I have been trying out a new way to “read” great books. I have been listening to e-audio books from the DC Public library while I run in the mornings. I can download the books from the library website and transfer them to my mp3 player in just a few minutes. This is a great way to get more books into my day. Right now I am listening to The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane by Kate DiCamillo. I also have Alvin Ho and Luck Breaks in my listening queue. Listening to e-audio books is great when you are traveling. For all those Percy Jackson fans out there, all six books are now available in eaduio form. So if you are hitting the road, the seas, or the air, be sure to take a few audio books along.
Oh, and for those of you who are fans of I’d Tell You I Love You, But Then I ‘d Have to Kill You, the author, Ally Carter will be at Politics & Prose on July 16 at 4:30 to talk about her latest installment in the series. I won’t be able to make it for obvious reasons but I hope some of you will get a chance to meet this exciting new author and spend some time in a fantastic book store. Be sure to ask for recommendations from the staff in the children’s department, they really know their stuff. In other book news, I was lucky enough to get a chance to check out the Biography Book Store and Magnolia Bakery that played so prominently in Cornelia and the Audacious Escapades of the Sommerset Sisters on a recent to trip to NYC. For those of you who have not had a chance to read this book, it is a great read and a fun way to see the world through literature.
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