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Tamera Jenkins

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Monday, September 20, 2010

STILL HERE>>>BARELY

Once school started I haven't stopped running. Orientations for graduate school, The Criminology graduate department, Teaching assistantship, and to help me find my way at the Surrey campus, took up an entire week.My own classes, research theory and research methods, are two days a week at the Burnaby campus. The restorative justice tutorial I teach is on Wednesdays at the Surrey campus as is the RJ lecture on Fridays. Mondays and Thursdays are mine to get things done. Hasn't happened yet but I'm hopeful.

Yesterday Jim and I drove an hour to go to church in Chilliwak. Iput down the book I was reading to enjoy the scenery.



Chilliwak, BC





The rainy season hasn't officially started yet...so I've been told, apparently the rain doesn't know that as it has been pouring for days now. Candles help make the RV cheery and take away the very wet dog smell..poor Monty.

Jim got pulled over by the RCMP tonight on his way home. No ticket( you can't get going fast enough to get a speeding ticket) but a 30 minute check on his VIN #,insurance, drivers license, and truck plates..and just for good measure a lecture on the appropriate way to display a license plate, looks like it's the opposite as to how we do things back home...big surprise there huh? Is it just us or do they really not like Americans around here? No worries, we can't be ran off that easily! I'm sure we'll win them over yet :)
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In politically correct language I am called a non-traditional student or,as my mother would say, a late-bloomer. For twenty years I was a stay-at-home/home-schooling mom but surprise.. kids grow up. When my son asked me what I was going to do after he left home I told him I was sure it would involve crates of Kleenex, junk food, and a lot of self pity. He suggested college instead and I took him up on it. I graduated in Dec. 09 with a BA in Criminal Justice/Corrections from Park University in Parkville, Mo. Through internships that brought me into contact with both the victims and offenders of violent crime, I have acquired a passion to assist each in addressing issues of accountability and healing through the restorative process of victim-offender mediation. As a 2010-2011 Canada-U.S. Student Fulbright recipient I will travel this fall with my husband and granddaughter, to British Columbia where I will be attending Simon Fraser University's Graduate School of Criminology. With a superb symmetry, Mother, arbitrator of children’s squabbles has progressed to victim-offender mediator.