{"id":120,"date":"2017-05-24T11:07:49","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T15:07:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/writing\/?p=120"},"modified":"2024-02-29T14:26:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T19:26:03","slug":"what-i-did-on-my-sabbatical-by-shelly-furuness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/writing\/2017\/05\/24\/what-i-did-on-my-sabbatical-by-shelly-furuness\/","title":{"rendered":"What I did on my Sabbatical: by Shelly Furuness"},"content":{"rendered":"
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  1. Took an art class on drawing at the Indianapolis Art Center<\/li>\n
  2. Documented my creative process<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Took a tennis lesson<\/li>\n
  4. Took a swim lesson<\/li>\n
  5. Created little paintings with oil paints and really liked it<\/li>\n
  6. Saw Hidden Figures in the movie theater at 10:00 in the morning all by myself on a Monday morning<\/li>\n
  7. Wrote a book chapter about teaching middle schoolers in an online environment<\/li>\n
  8. Read about 20 books<\/a><\/li>\n
  9. Got a tattoo<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. G<\/a>ot a massage<\/li>\n
  11. Saw a nutritionist<\/li>\n
  12. Wrote weekly at CTS and had several wonderful lunches in the cafe there<\/li>\n
  13. Attended a Writing Workshop on Flash Memoir<\/li>\n
  14. Learned about Scandinavia’s healthcare and education systems<\/li>\n
  15. Met new Journey Fellow friends at Waycross in Bloomington, IN<\/li>\n
  16. Canoed at Sugar Creek<\/li>\n
  17. Hiked at Turkey Run with those Journey Fellow friends<\/li>\n
  18. Contra danced in a barn near a historic covered bridge<\/li>\n
  19. Made a story stick to walk with<\/li>\n
  20. Spent 9 days in Florida with my boys and in-laws for Spring Break<\/li>\n
  21. Went to Universal Studios to explore the expanded Harry Potter World<\/li>\n
  22. Took a glass bottom boat ride in a natural spring in Florida<\/li>\n
  23. Hit golf balls<\/li>\n
  24. Worked out with fidelity the whole semester<\/li>\n
  25. Learned that the Indiana Department of Education loved our Middle-Secondary Special Education proposal<\/li>\n
  26. Tried spin class again<\/li>\n
  27. Loved water aerobics<\/li>\n
  28. Watched an Atlanta Braves spring training game<\/li>\n
  29. Started a blog<\/li>\n
  30. Began a daily writing practice thanks to Bryan’s Boot Camp<\/li>\n
  31. Drove my son to weight training all semester<\/li>\n
  32. Meditated with Oprah and Deepak for 21 days<\/li>\n
  33. Had brunch with my friends more than once<\/li>\n
  34. Attended Birdman with a live drumming performance at Clowes<\/li>\n
  35. Attended several One Butler Brain Project lectures with my boys<\/li>\n
  36. Volunteered to review science textbooks for my boys’ school district<\/li>\n
  37. Hung out at the middle school team meetings at the Lab School on Fridays from February-May<\/li>\n
  38. Wrote an (almost finished) article with my friend and colleague, Dr. Brooke Kandel-Cisco<\/li>\n
  39. Visited Stockholm, Sweden<\/li>\n
  40. Visited Copenhagen, Denmark<\/li>\n
  41. Visited Reykjavic, Iceland<\/li>\n
  42. Rode a bike (without crashing) in Copenhagen<\/li>\n
  43. Ate herring–multiple times<\/li>\n
  44. Listened to newly arrived students in Vallentuna tell their stories of arrival in Sweden<\/li>\n
  45. Had wine and cheese in the lovely home of my Swedish Hoosier colleague, Angelica Granqvist<\/li>\n
  46. Got to know my Butler colleagues better by traveling with them for 14 days<\/li>\n
  47. Soaked in the Blue Lagoon with a silica mud mask on my face and a drink in my hand<\/li>\n
  48. Ate a salmon burger off a salmon wagon<\/li>\n
  49. Tried Thai food for the first time<\/li>\n
  50. Walked through Kronsborg Castle which is the setting for Hamlet<\/li>\n
  51. Saw the “real” Little Mermaid<\/li>\n
  52. Thought deeply about the restructuring of our College of Education and proposed some ideas<\/li>\n
  53. Took a class called Writing Life through the Indiana Partnership for Young Writers<\/li>\n
  54. Applied for and was granted a BAC grant<\/li>\n
  55. Spent 13 days from 9:00-4:00 being a student in the National Writing Project at IUPUI<\/li>\n
  56. Continued participating in the Writing Life and reconnected with a writing friend from high school<\/li>\n
  57. Hiked 8 miles at Clifty Falls with my boys<\/li>\n
  58. Fell in the creek hiking trail 2<\/li>\n
  59. Didn’t teach the summer cohort for the first time in 9 years<\/li>\n
  60. Celebrated our 20th wedding anniversary<\/li>\n
  61. Co-wrote an article with Michelle Trainor for the Middle School Journal<\/li>\n
  62. Took baby steps rethinking curriculum with colleagues that might enhance preparation of for middle childhood<\/li>\n
  63. Learned that STEM grants require much more than a month to prepare<\/li>\n
  64. Traveled back to the UK with Dr. Esteves, Bryan and 16 students<\/li>\n
  65. Navigated the Tube in London<\/li>\n
  66. Saw Twelfth Night<\/em> at the Globe<\/li>\n
  67. Saw Julius Caesar<\/em>\u00a0performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford upon Avon<\/li>\n
  68. Climbed to the summit of Arthur’s Seat<\/li>\n
  69. Participated in a storytelling workshop with a professional storyteller in Edinburgh, Scotland<\/li>\n
  70. Walked along the dock where the Titanic was launch in Belfast<\/li>\n
  71. Meditated with Oprah and Deepak for another 21 days<\/li>\n
  72. Had my first pint of Guinness<\/li>\n
  73. Walked along the Giant’s Causeway and learned about Finn MacCool<\/li>\n
  74. Learned that the Peace Wall in Belfast is about keeping peace, not celebrating it<\/li>\n
  75. Took time, breathed deeply as often as I wanted, and remembered my “why”<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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