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Welcome to my notebook! My name is Ben Max, I am 30 years old and live in Medford, Massachusetts. I teach Social Studies at [|Malden High School] in Malden, MA. I was born in New York, New York and spent my first 13 years living in Queens, NY (A). I then moved to Litchfield, Connecticut (B), where I went to high school, then to college in Hartford, CT (C) at Trinity College and on to a few different spots near Boston, MA, including grad school at Tufts University (D) and now my job at Malden HS. Check out a map of my travels: media type="googlemap" key="http://maps.google.com/maps?f=d&source=s_d&saddr=Queens,+NY&daddr=Litchfield,+CT+to:Hartford,+CT+to:Medford,+MA&geocode=FQDLbQId_u-Z-ykrWQpHaUPCiTEFe1xsi9EJQQ%3BFXcDfQIdjDqj-ykz0lkFzpDniTHS2qHSpP5FsQ%3BFX9DfQId2-mq-ymlURHyEVPmiTGZWX3pqEqOzA%3BFf5AhwIdjAHD-ylVtOpTt3bjiTHsZVUmqDc1Kg&hl=en&mra=ls&sll=41.58258,-72.438354&sspn=1.902335,3.532104&ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=41.58258,-72.438354&spn=1.972245,3.515625&z=8&output=embed" height="480" width="640"

__My interests and hobbies...__
When I am not at work or working from home, I am often playing basketball or running. I enjoy spending time with friends, I am still close with a few friends from high school and a few others from college. Luckily, people often want to visit the Boston area, so I frequently have guests coming to visit. I also spend time reading and writing, mostly reading novels, poetry, and history-related books. My favorite poets are Billy Collins and Langston Hughes. Their poetry couldn't be more different: Collins' is mostly light and humorous while Hughes' is darker and angrier. I suggest you check them out, here's a link to some Billy Collins poems and here's one for Langston Hughes.



Always ask yourself:

SO WHAT?
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