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Tamera Jenkins

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Sunday, November 14, 2010

LOOK WHO CAME TO VISIT!!

Jim and I have welcomed our first guests to Vancouver, Dr. Ken Christopher, from Park University, and his wonderful wife Jeanne. It was so exciting to see friendly faces from home! Ken is giving a presentation at a port security conference in Seattle this week and they decided since they were this close to Vancouver they would come up to see us.





After we picked them up at the bus station we went to Granville Island. This is the first "touristy" outing that we have had since we arrived. School work and TA responsibilities have kept me hopping so it was very fun to spend the aftenoon with friends






We ate our lunch out on the heated( very heated) patio of the Sandbar Restaraunt.







Jorge entertains visitors with his panflute and guitar















Overlooking the ocean and Lion's Gate Bridge at Stanley Park








The afternoon came to an end too soon. I think Ken and Jeanne need to make this trip more often. I happen to know that the Western Society of Criminology Conference is in Vancouver this February. Sure, it's not port security but who cares? :)
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  1. AnonymousNovember 20, 2010 at 12:04 PM

    Tammy and Jim, This is great. The pictures are beautiful, especially the one with the two of you at the bridge!
    Was wonderful seeing you both.
    How is Jim's Dad?
    Until the next time. Jeanne

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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.