Spring Break, So Far

The school coincided this year with Easter and the National Catholic Educators Association (NCEA) convention, which is being held in Minneapolis.

Easter was nice. I started the day with Mass, and joined Charlie’s family for Easter Lunch after afternoon activities. It included the annual Easter egg hung and Easter egg roll. For those of you who don’t remember from last year, the Easter egg roll consist of several rounds of each person taking one of the hard-boiled, decorated eggs and rolling it down a ramp. If you hit some buddy else’s egg as you roll across the lawn, then they have to give you a big penny. Eventually after about 6 or 7 rounds, eggs start cracking and it ends.

As I mentioned earlier, the NCEA is meeting in Minneapolis this week. Opportunity for catholic educators from across the country to get together, for different sessions and training stuff…8,000 attendees was one number I heard floated around. Well last night, DeLaSalle hosted a reception for the Lasallian attendees that wanted to come; there were about 60 or so. It was a good time and I got to catch up with a number of people that I have met along the way in my travels. And today, the Campus Ministry team from DeLaSalle organized a luncheon for the local campus ministry teams. The campus minister from DeLaSalle invited me to that as well, so it was a nice networking opportunity as well.

Today, also happens to coincide with the Feast Day of St. John Baptist De La Salle. He died on this day in 1719. Generally, feast days for saints fall on the day they died. However, because there’s a good chance each year that April 7th falls either during Holy Week or Easter week (there’s traditional 8 days of Easter)(these two weeks supersede any other feast days they happen to land on since they are more important Feasts of Jesus), the Christian Brothers generally celebrate the Feast Day on May 15th.

Tidbit by Thomas: The NCEA convention is being held in downtown Minneapolis at the Convention Center. Ironically, next door at the Convention Center today, Sarah Palin came to do a rally/fund raiser for a republican representative. While you couldn’t take pictures with her there at the Convention Center, you are able to pay a pretty penny to attend a fundraising dinner at the Hilton. They did not say how much the dinner costs, however, they did note it ONLY costs $10,000 to take a picture with Sarah Palin there! I don’t think anyone, or any combination of people, is worth that much to take just a picture with!