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May 04, 2007
Visit Continued
Okay I won’t spend a whole lot more time on my nostalgia, but I did finish off my trip through Arizona with a visit to Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff. I hadn’t been back there for almost 20 years.
Flagstaff had changed too. The city was bigger and longer than ever. It hadn’t changed as much as Phoenix, but you could definitely see the growth.
The place that had changed the most was NAU. There were new buildings everywhere and more going up. When I went to school there the student population was probably about 10,000. Now I’m told it’s over 20,000. That’s a lot of students!
But the old stuff was there too. Old Main and Morton Hall were there clear back from the days when the place was the hospital for the insane. Hm. I’m sure there were times when I was going there that I wasn’t sure whether I was not still in such a facility, but usually those were thoughts coming from not being quite ready enough for a test or having a paper due that I’d forgotten about.
Of course I had to drive by Eastburn Education building, and yes, for those teachers who graduated from NAU, it’s still alive and well. It’s bigger than it used to be, more additions to the campus, but it still looks much like it did years ago.
This trip was fun for me. I decided when I was seven years old that I wanted to be a teacher. I have never regretted that decision. I do enjoy what I’ve done. So just wait until my next piece. You’ll get to enjoy as I did a group of second graders learning new and wondrous things.
Posted by Dr Joni at May 4, 2007 10:35 AM
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