Although it feels like our first snowball fight on the Green was just yesterday, we’re about to turn the page on our calendars to 2018. I wish you all happy holidays and a year full of many more accomplishments.

A few months ago Devyn Greenberg traveled out to Rabat, Morocco, as a new Fulbright scholar. Devyn is teaching English at the National Architecture School, which has been rewarding because the students are talented and passionate about intercultural education. She also works at the Center for Moroccan Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship, where she leads design thinking workshops for high school students and adults who are in the process of developing projects. Of course Devyn was prepared to take on this challenge after being a teaching assistant for “Design Thinking” at Dartmouth. Outside of her teaching, she takes salsa classes for fun and goes to jam sessions at a local café with her former host sister from the foreign study program in Fez.

Also in Morocco is Nicole Castillo,who is teaching two English courses at Abdelmalek Essaadi University in Tetouan. Life as a professor has certainly been an adjustment being called Professor Castillo by students who are her age and sometimes older, but she loves teaching because the students are respectful and appreciative of having a native English speaker as their teacher. Nicole has been fascinated by the opportunity to live in Tetouan, which is truly a multicultural and multilingual city; one time she found herself in a conversation using six different languages among five of her colleagues.

Our classmates have been keeping busy in the United States as well. Lauren Gruffi spent her summer earning a 200-hour yoga instructing certification in Long Beach Island, New Jersey. In August Lauren and Regan Plekenpol held a charity yoga and essential oils event, where they raised money for Lauren to run the N.Y.C. marathon and for the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Since then Lauren started work at Huron in life sciences consulting and moved to Manhattan with Regan and Mia Steck. Right now Lauren is taking yoga classes regularly, but once she gets settled in the city she wants to teach yoga at homeless shelters and trauma centers.

This September Brian Li moved to San Francisco to begin work as a data operations associate at Flexport, a freight boarding company. He enjoys spending time with his coworkers, most of whom are recent graduates as well, and he had the opportunity to travel to Atlanta for work. Brian lives with fellow ’17 Joby Bernstein and they’ve spent many weekends exploring San Francisco together. During the fall they biked across the Golden Gate Bridge; Joby, who was an avid hiker and a distance swimmer at Dartmouth, moved far ahead of Brian, but Brian learned that he could keep up with the retired athlete once he turned up the gear catch.

Also in the Bay Area is James Thompson, who works as an engineering intern for the Initiation Systems Group in the defense technologies engineering division at Lawrence Livermore National Lab in Livermore, California. He’s had the opportunity to run large computer simulations and appreciates the insight he’s able to retrieve using the lab’s multi-physics hydrodynamic codes. When he’s not in the lab, J.T. spends time camping and with his girlfriend, Audrey Perez. Most importantly, J.T. has had the pleasure of playing with Phi Delt’s esteemed pig Winston, who moved in with his family in Tracy, California. Winston adjusted to the West Coast lifestyle quickly by befriending the Thompson family’s chickens, cooling off in his kiddie pool and eating lots of frozen strawberries.

—Dorian Allen, 33 Kensington Terrace, Maplewood, NJ 07040; (973) 986-5988; dorallen@comcast.net