Liam immortalizes us in ALA cartoon glory
Contrary to popular belief, I do not live a life of lackadaisical freedom, unencumbered by every aspect of student life, from community hours to classes. Although I probably sleep about two hours more than the average ALA student every night, I also take six subjects and work as an assistant in the Leadership and Entrepreneurship Office. For example, I’ve researched Corporate Social Responsibility in Africa, catalogued some of the office’s library, and gathered information on community service sites. But enough about me. The best part of working in the L&E office is the L&E faculty, who I will now attempt to describe. Here’s the lineup (click to enlarge, as always): This is the beginning of my student Liam’s blog about his interpreation of myself and my Leadership and Entrepreneurship colleagues. Hillarious stuff, but also quite substantive. You will realize that once you take that leap to pursue your purpose doesn’t mean everything will be easy and breezy. His characterization of one of my teaching moments was the encouragement that kept me through a very difficult first year of teaching: ”A few days ago, he told Lailat to “find the words” when she was struggling to explain something in English, and he waited while she did. The class ended up clapping for her after she made her point elegantly, and it was one of the best teaching moments I have ever seen.” You know the guy is good, because the day he posted it, a number of faculty and staff room were asking if I had seen it. Liam is headed to Berkely to study architecture, but I often wonder, Liam, if your greatest gift to the Africa wont be using your writing as the architect of a new idea and image of Africa. Read the rest of Liam’s post here 
