VSTEing away

I'm at the Virginia Society for Technology Education (VSTE) Conference in Roanoke this week. I'm having a blast so far! Yesterday, I attended my first two sessions. The first one was about travelling stories through podcasts. Two schools in Henrico County will take one class or group and start a story, record it and then send the story to another group or class. That class would then have to finish it. Once the whole process was through, the two groups would get together and then listen to whole story. I'm not giving it the full justice here and I can't remember the website at the moment, but I'll give that in my update.

My best story from the conference so far is this: In the first timers session, I sat down not really paying attention to where I was sitting. Another woman engaged myself and the person sitting next to me in a conversation. The woman beside me said she was from Tazewell, VA. Before going to college, I never would have known where this was, however, I told the woman that I had been there, having gone home once with a friend of mine who lived there. We talked for a few more minutes, before I asked the woman her last name. When she told me, I couldn't help laughing! I told her, not only had I been in Tazewell, I'd been to her house! Definitely giving me a strange look, she realized I was her daughter's friend from college! We exchanged phone numbers and she updated me on her daughter. Small world, indeed! Thought I would share. I'll be back with more later.