The other thing I was gonna say about Phoenix-- we went downtown and had lunch before Ivan's interview. There were a bunch of kids on a field trip. You know what I noticed about the group? All black & white kids. Now, normally you wouldn't think anything of that. But the district I work in is like 65% Asian, 30% Hispanic, and the other 5% is white/black/whatever else. Which...actually I don't know if I've seen one black child ever if any of my schools. I only have 2 white kids on my caseload, and I've only seen a couple more in any of the schools I go to. And I knew my caseload was mostly Asian & Hispanic, but it's like you don't really notice the absence of white & black people until you're around them again. It was just strange, the way I was like oh wow, I haven't seen white or black kids in a long time.
Oh, and the heat. Everyone told us we were there on the hottest day this week, it was about 113. We didn't really think it was that hot, we thought maybe more like 90. Anyway, I can say, my description of the "dry" heat is this: even in total shade I felt like I was getting a sunburn!
