Collywobbles: Tales of Travel, Life, and Anxiety
Collywobbles is part memoir, part travelogue, and part mildly humorous tales of Faye’s various anxieties, including claustrophobia and acrophobia, as well as her obsession with worldly pleasures such as food, penises, and toilets. The author takes the reader on amusing journeys around the globe from New York to New Delhi, offering different perspectives as an apprehensive student, insightful teacher, disastrous lover, and emerging tour guide. We meet many of her travel partners who, at times, provide encouragement but, at other times, add to her collywobbles, that jittery feeling we get in our belly when we are anxious. Along the way, we not only discover how her anxiety informs her travel, but we also pick up captivating details about the places she visits. Although she eventually finds a cure for her angst, she has no desire to assuage her travel addiction. “The little pink pill diminished my collywobbles, but there isn’t a pill to cure travel addiction. Even if there were, I wouldn’t take it.”
Transforming Student Travel: A Resource Guide for Educators
Transforming Student Travel calls for a paradigm shift in the student tour industry: educators collaborating to create a student-centered, inquiry-based tour. Marcel Proust said, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” This resource guide explores ways educators can encourage students not only to see with “new eyes,” but also to understand how they know.
Resource Guides for Student Tours
New York
Washington, D.C.
Boston
Philadelphia
The Historic Triangle: Williamsburg, Jamestown, and Yorktown
Chicago
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The student resource guides for tour directors offer photos, background information, discussion questions, and activities for each of the cities. For more information and/or to purchase a PDF copy of one or more resource guides ($8 each), email [email protected]. Below is an example of the types of activities in each manual.
A Chronology of Globetrotting
A Wandering Jew
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About Faye Brenner
"The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust
Faye Brenner is an educator. Her expansive career has included teaching English, drama, and Theory of Knowledge to high school students and working in a residential summer camp as the drama specialist, program director, and, eventually, the executive director. After returning to education for another decade, she retired and began a new career as a tour director. Each of these careers gave her the opportunity to travel the world, globetrotting with students, friends, family, and professional colleagues. Her first book, Transforming Student Travel: A Resource Guide for Educators, brings together educational theory and practical tips for student tour guides to deepen the educational tour experience. She created Collywobbles: Tales of Travel, Life, and Anxiety as a way to survive her forced retirement, an ankle replacement, the pandemic, and the stress of the 45th presidency. Faye lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her two dogs, Zora and Trixie. She has suffered from a mild case of generalized anxiety disorder for most of her life.
Faye Brenner
[email protected]
703-314-4261
Faye Brenner is an educator. Her expansive career has included teaching English, drama, and Theory of Knowledge to high school students and working in a residential summer camp as the drama specialist, program director, and, eventually, the executive director. After returning to education for another decade, she retired and began a new career as a tour director. Each of these careers gave her the opportunity to travel the world, globetrotting with students, friends, family, and professional colleagues. Her first book, Transforming Student Travel: A Resource Guide for Educators, brings together educational theory and practical tips for student tour guides to deepen the educational tour experience. She created Collywobbles: Tales of Travel, Life, and Anxiety as a way to survive her forced retirement, an ankle replacement, the pandemic, and the stress of the 45th presidency. Faye lives in Durham, North Carolina, with her two dogs, Zora and Trixie. She has suffered from a mild case of generalized anxiety disorder for most of her life.
Faye Brenner
[email protected]
703-314-4261