Santa Clara University

Alumni Update: Chris Wright

Halloween

Semester at Casa: Fall 2001 (I'm getting old...)

University / Grad: Santa Clara University, 2002

Update January 2006

Hey everybody! I hope all is well. Currently I am working with the Casa program here in El Salvador. I am working along with Lulu, Meg and Tom while Kevin and Trena are out of the country (at SCU for one semester, Spring 2006). Things are going really well and we’re having a great time.

Once this finishes in May it looks like I’ll be heading up to Boston to do a Masters program with the IREPM at Boston College. Right now I can’t complain because things are going really well and I am happy to be where I am, doing what I am doing. I hope all of you are doing well too! Peace. Chris "el wombat" Wright

 

 

Previous Update:

I just finished up a great year of working with the Casa and I’m getting myself settled in the States. Getting settled and reacclimatized should be considered at least a part-time job.

As for work that pays me, I am just beginning an AmeriCorps position in Seattle where I'll be working as an ESL instructor and a volunteer coordinator at the Seattle Public Library. Also, for the record, working in the library does not necessarily mean that I am (or will be) a librarian. Accordingly, I will not necessarily be wearing cardigan sweaters, obsessively insisting that people be quiet or constantly adjusting the glasses that keep slipping down my nose…

Besides that I'll be applying for graduate school, spending time with my family and dominating my Fantasy Baseball League.

Feel free to contact me about baseball, life or the Casa Program at: cpwright1980@yahoo.com

Here I am playing the song 'Ojala' that I composed while at the Casa in 2001. It is a song that uses the subjunctive and was originally put together as a homework assignment for Cruz's class. Later, I was honored to have Silvio Rodriguez do a version of it. Since then every student that learns the subjunctive at the Casa sings it compulsively and thinks of it every time they use the words 'pueda' or 'caiga' in a real conversation.