Hi and welcome to my distance learning blog. I've played around with blogs in the past and am looking forward to doing it in a more structured way. I'm enrolled in a distance learning course at the University of West Georgia where I'm a faculty member in the counseling and educational psychology department. One of the requirements of the course is to develop a blog for the course. I'll be posting here from time to time about my reactions to the course and what I'm learning in it. I'll also try to make it a bit fun by posting some other elements from my "world". The photo that I've posted here was taken at a koala preserve in Australia last year. Koalas are marsupials, not bears, and although they are adorably cute they are wild animals and really not at all cuddly. The little fellow I'm holding here had a little fit right before the handler handed him to me for the photo. The koalas that they use for the photos are only "worked" for 30 minutes every 2 weeks (I need a gig like that) and the exorbitant fee that they charge for the photo is used to support the sanctuary. But enough about me for today. More to come later.