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Passionate about words? Volunteer with us! |
If you enjoy words and know English very well,
we would love to welcome you as a volunteer!We currently need
help in the area of
-- sound proofing
-- sound editing
-- editing of sample sentences and comments and
-- proof reading.
Please send me an email if you would like to become a part of
our project!
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Thank you
to our precious volunteers
(listed alphabetically):
Abigail Beal
Erica Corwell,
Billie Sue Fischer,
Travonda Green,
Stephanie Guyer-Stevens,
Amy Humbert
Naomi Hupert,
Natasha Lewin
Michelle Lua,
Ellen P.,
James Pennington
David Riddle,
Heather Rutkowski,
Cliff Stephens,
Kimberly Stickland,
Jasmina Thompson,
Dixon Wragg |
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Platinum volunteers |
This page will serve as a platform to portrait and honor our
outstanding volunteers.
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Michelle Lua, volunteer since 2006 |
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About myself
I'm a native Californian. I went to
college at Gonzaga University in Spokane Washington where I majored
in French and minored in English. I also got my teaching
credential.
I spent a year with the Jesuit Volunteer Corps teaching English to
Junior and Senior High School students at an Eskimo boarding school
in St. Mary's Alaska. Although I loved the teaching, I did not love
the isolation of bush Alaska.
When I returned from Alaska I was unable to find a teaching
position, so I substituted for a year in the Sacramento area. I was
still unable to find a teaching position, so I took a job with the
Internal Revenue Service where I was a manager for 27 years.
I retired after 30 years with the Federal government in March 2005.
Since then I have been substitute teaching in Rohnert Park, doing
quite a bit with my Church and have found a niche "playing with
words" for e-spindle.
Why did I start to
volunteer for eSpindle?
I love language. I majored in French and
English. I have been a voracious reader since ... forever.
When I was young I could lose myself in the dictionary moving
from word to word untangling a puzzle. Now I feel like
it's my job to do this. What more could I ask?
I love looking at a new word - and these are
almost all new words to me. Then, I guess how it's pronounced
and what it means on the basis of 2 years of grade school
Spanish, 2 years of high school Latin, 3 years of high school
French, 1 year of high school Italian, 4 years of college French
and 16 years of English instruction. Sometimes, I'm right. I'm
always thrilled. I'm always learning.
I'm happy to be able to contribute to what I
feel is a worthwhile enterprise. Language is important. It's
the way that we communicate. Words are what we use to express
ideas. How successful we are at expressing these ideas is
almost completely dependent on the effectiveness of the way we
put our words together. The bigger the vocabulary that an
individual is able to use, the more successful she will be in
expressing her ideas with not just clarity and precision, but
also with subtlety and nuance.
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