listening to the wind.

A couple weeks back, we were lucky enough to have Teresa Chin (pictured) and Cliff Lee of Youth Radio join us in the classroom for a session on interviewing techniques. With excellent mic handling skills (and a great deal of giggling), the girls interviewed each other about their lives and what was important to them. You can catch those files, as well as their homework for the day, in separate posts under the “radio” tag.

I also asked the girls to write a piece to share the sound of home for them. It could be anything – their alarm clock in the morning, their parents cooking a meal, the sound of wind through a particular tree outside their window. (We all got super into the sounds you can take in with a good recorder when the headphone volume is turned all the way up – wind can be absolutely gorgeous. Who knew?)

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Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong is a transmedia storyteller whose work is oriented toward dialogue, connection, dislocation, and movement. The child of Ghanaian immigrants, she has lived in eight cities/four countries in the past ten years. She is currently in her final year of the MFA program in Creative Writing at Mills College, where she is the prose fellow in Narrative Writing and Community Engagement.