Subject: Well...
From: "Philip McAdoo" <[email-masked]>
To: "Undisclosed recipients:"
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2017 15:31:04 +0000

Friends

I am pretty sure that I never want to be the father for 14 teenagers.

We reached the end of our service. Although I have no words, there is a beautiful video of the teachers and the school showing their appreciation for the work that your children did. The organization was so impressed with the way our students engaged the learners in one of the poorest and underserved areas of Port Elizabeth that they are hopeful that we will stay connected.

I will send more pictures later (there are some on the blog). We are off to dinner with our host. If I am 5 minutes late, the 14 teenagers yell at me.

Enjoy the pic of them relaxing after work today…

With gratitude

Philip McAdoo, Ed.D
Director of Equity, Justice and Community
Sidwell Friends School
3825 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016
Phone: 202-537-2406
Mobile: 202-430-0095

“When those who have the power to name and to socially construct reality choose not to see you or hear you, whether you are dark-skinned, old disabled, female or speak with a different accent or dialect than theirs…when someone describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.” - Adrienne Ric