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I was born in Seattle on November 14th, 1972. That will make me 12,830 days old as of December 31st, 2007. 55.7% of those days were spent in the United States, the other 41.3% were spent mostly in Italy and Germany.
At age 3 I filled 5 pages of notebook paper with a single 1 followed by as many zeros as I could write and proclaimed it the "biggest number in the world". A premonition?
In 1976 my family moved to Italy. We lived in Rome until I was 6.75, then moved to northwestern Italy were we lived until I was 18.75. I attended Italian public schools from grades 1 through 9, then a private Canadian boarding school in Germany from grades 10 to 12.
After graduating from High School in 1991 I attended Seattle Pacific University for one whole semester. The rain drove me nuts so I decided to transfer to Southern California College (SCC) in Orange County, CA. I had never been to Southern California before, but as soon as I got there I realized the beach and the sun were just what this mullet-bearing 19 year old needed.
I ended up spending 10.5 years in Orange County and only moved back to Washington in the summer of 2002. During my time there I earned a Bachelors degree in Mathematics and a Masters degree in Education. I also acquired 1 wife, 2 daughters, and the bad habit of always saying "dude". Oh yeah, I also cut my mullet....it was my wife's idea.
My first teaching job was at Carr Intermediate in Santa Ana, CA. I started working there in November of 1996. My college experience had prepared me well to be a teacher....except for one little problem: that first year many of my students did not speak English. I spent 6 years at Carr, learned a lot of Espanol, ate a lot of tacos, and danced to the Mariachi band every May 3rd. Mariachi bands are expensive on May 5th you know?
I've been in Kitsap County for five years now and love it. It rains much less than I remember, the air is generally not hazardous to breathe, and there are a lot of those funny wooden thingies with leaves on them. I love the staff and students of CKJH and am looking forward to another great year of kids, integers, and equations.
These are 10 things about Mr. Peretti that you probably did not know, did not want to know, and will hopefully forget.
Mr. P. has never tasted coffee.
Mr. P. wakes up at 6:00 a.m. every Sunday morning to watch Italian soccer on TV.
Since September of 1994, Mr. P. has found $328 worth of change on the ground. (He keeps track - see the spreadsheet by his classroom door)
Mr. P. is a marathon runner.
Mr. P. has been to 34 different countries including San Marino, Finland, Malawi, Peru, Liechtenstein, and Israel.
Mr. P. did quite poorly in Algebra the first time he took it. What were all those letters for?
Mr. P. knows the names and birth-years of all 16 of his great-great grandparents (2 Swiss, 6 Prussian, 2 Italian, 2 Norwegian, 1 Scot, 1 Irish, and 2 British).
Mr. P. knows his times tables all the way to 20.
Mr. P. and President Nixon are/were 7th cousins.
Three summers ago Mr. P. taught math in a mud-brick hut with a straw roof in Africa. Two summers ago Mr. P. walked 40 miles over two 14,000 foot mountain passes to Macchu Pichu in the Peruvian Andes. Last summer he broke his front tooth while sliding down a bat-poop slide inside a cave in Belize.
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