13 January, 2003

My intern's name is Bernadette Hatcher. She is a student in the School of Education at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is currently student teaching in my classroom. When I leave for Antarctica, she will take over as my substitute teacher. Bernadette and I could not have asked for a better internship placement. She and I have many things in common. She has had some of the same professors I had when I attended UAB. We share the same philosophy of education. We are the same age and both of us worked for a bank before we went into education. Bernadette's sister, Quameka Cole, works for my principal investigator, Chuck Amsler, in the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at UAB.