{"id":687,"date":"2014-05-05T11:32:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/?p=687"},"modified":"2014-05-05T11:32:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T15:32:57","slug":"the-perks-of-volunteering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/envs\/2014\/05\/05\/the-perks-of-volunteering\/","title":{"rendered":"The Perks of Volunteering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week I spent an afternoon at a nearby elementary school teaching 3rd graders about rocks. The already knew about the rock cycle, but their hand samples were pretty mediocre – pebble size, maybe. So I loaded up our cart with a couple hundred pounds of rocks\u00a0 and spent the afternoon teaching those kids on “How to become a rock-detective”. It was fun and I got some cool thank-you letters back. Mackenzie clearly remembered what volcanic bombs look like:\"volcanic<\/a>
\nThe students wrote thank you letters and asked follow up questions. Here are a few:<\/p>\n

Q: What is your favorite rock?
\nA: A blue schist from Russian River, CA<\/p>\n

Q: On a scale from 1 to 1,000,0000 how much do you like your job?
\nA: 999,980 (nothing is perfect, but some things come close)<\/p>\n

Q: What do you teach those College kids?
\nA: Lots of stuff: Geology, Physics, Climatology, how to do research and plenty more<\/p>\n

Q: How much money do you make?
\nA: Enough to feed my wife, kids, two dogs, and a cat.<\/p>\n

Q: What do you do all day?
\nA: I teach, do research, visit nosy 3rd graders, spend too much time in meetings.<\/p>\n

And, finally, I received an awesome portrait, drawn by an amazing artist.\"awesome<\/a>
\nI must say my new friend Angelo got it right: flannel shirt, rolled up sleeves, beard, glasses, rock cart (note the ripple marks on the sandstone!!) – the works.<\/p>\n

:-)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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