WARMTH

I have spent so much time outside this week. It’s been great. When I’ve finished writing this entry I’m headed back outside for some Arabic homework.

I spoke with Matt today, the office director for the Cambridge office for the Campaign to Save the Environment. He cleared up a lot of my confusion. My job is 9-5, pays minimum of $350 / week plus 35% of what I fund raise. I do some canvassing, under the direction of a “field manager” (hopefully Sarah!), but most of my job is about organizing the office-end of the campaign, and writing letters to news outlets for PR purposes, lobbying.

Now for the interesting part. This summer, the campaign is working to push a new climate change bill through the MA State legislature. Matt says they’ve been working on it for a year, and just last month out of nowhere the Senate passed it! So our role is to stir up enough noise to get the House to pass it also. This bill is as good as they come: cut emissions by 20% by 2020, and by 80% by 2050. I think Matt said that there are only like 5 other states with this legislation either on the books or headed that way. Yay 1Sky! So that’s exciting, that not only do I have an engaging and well-paying summer job, but I am actually enthusiastic about it. 40-hour weeks will be interesting, but I have no qualms about vacationing!

I got some grades back this week, which is unusual. So now in my WAGS course I have one grade (a good one) and in Political Geography another grade (also good), tons of grades in Arabic (mostly good) and two grades in Politics in Israel (both good). The downside is that I have most of my grades remaining in the next 4 weeks in WAGS and PG. Gametime.