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Faith in Vermont: Marching on Memorial Day

Posted on May 31, 2016 | Blog Category:
By Faith Gong



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“Can we march in the Memorial Day parade again this year?”

Out of nowhere, one of my daughters popped this question during breakfast on a morning in mid-April. Memorial Day was over a month away. We were all the way across the country from Vermont, on sabbatical in Berkeley, California. And I hadn’t even finished my first cup of coffee of the day.

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Clippings: Lessons learned from time away from home

Posted on May 19, 2016 |
By Faith Gong



I was not exactly looking forward to our family’s sabbatical in Berkeley, Calif. Our five-month sojourn was a year-and-a-half in the planning, so my mind had plenty of time to run through every nightmarish scenario imaginable. I worried that we couldn’t possibly find a comfortable and affordable home for a family of six. I worried that I would be stuck in this uncomfortable and expensive home all day long with four bickering children and no breaks. I worried that I would miss our life back in Vermont and become depressed.

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Faith in Vermont, California Sabbatical: Goodbye to Berkeley

Posted on May 3, 2016 | Blog Category:
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As we prepare to leave Berkeley, California and return home to Vermont, here are some Berkeley stories from the past five months of our family’s sabbatical:

 

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Faith in Vermont, California Sabbatical: They Paved Paradise

Posted on April 19, 2016 | Blog Category:
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It’s late afternoon, and I’m looking east through the big picture windows of my favorite café in Berkeley, California. I’m used to seeing the Green Mountains when I look east, but today I see the Berkeley Hills.

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Faith in Vermont, California Sabbatical: Where The Heart Is?

Posted on April 5, 2016 | Blog Category:
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When friends and family from Vermont ask how we’re doing during our five-month sabbatical in Berkeley, California, I usually answer, “It’s been a good experience. But it’s not home.”

The funny thing is, it was home.

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Faith in Vermont, California Sabbatical: The Surprising Joy of Homeschooling

Posted on March 22, 2016 | Blog Category:
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Husband: I was thinking we could go to Berkeley for the second half of my sabbatical. We have family and friends there, and I could do research in my old department at UC Berkeley.

Me: Sure, that makes sense.

Husband: And we’d enroll the girls in school in Berkeley for the spring?

Me: Oh no, I’ll just homeschool them while we’re out there.

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Faith in Vermont, California Sabbatical: Journey to Points South

Posted on March 8, 2016 | Blog Category:
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In mid-February our family left the house we’re renting during my husband’s sabbatical in Berkeley, California and drove south for eight hours.

Our destination: Orange County, a sprawling collection of suburbs just south of Los Angeles.

Our purpose: To visit my husband’s brother and his family…and Disneyland.

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Faith in Vermont, California Sabbatical: Sing a Song of Traffic

Posted on February 23, 2016 | Blog Category:
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The other day, my daughters were playing on the brick patio that constitutes the backyard of our rental house in Berkeley, California. As two of them scooted around on toy cars belonging to our landlords’ son, I observed the following exchange:

Bringing their vehicles to a sudden stop at right angles to each other, one daughter said, “You go ahead.”

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Faith in Vermont, California Sabbatical: This Old House

Posted on February 9, 2016 | Blog Category:
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About nine months ago, my husband and I decided to start looking for a place to live during our sabbatical in Berkeley, California. Sitting at home in Vermont, we assumed it would be no problem to find a furnished rental home for a family with four young children and a dog, within walking distance of UC Berkeley, on an assistant professor’s salary.

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