Praise God, it's Saturday! I know that I have ranted and raved about how much I love my students, and I do! BUT....they were awful yesterday. I wasn't the only one who felt that way so I know it wasn't just me. They were a little testy all week to be honest. The other teachers said it was a combination of the full moon, the weather, and the holiday on Monday. I was just relieved to know that it wasn't just me being naive in the first two weeks and then learning what the kids are REALLY like. I'm sure I (and they) will be back to normal on Monday. I just needed a break.
The funny thing was, after such a long Friday all the teachers went to Happy Hour at Serrano's! I didn't go with them, but I did go to a Happy Hour. Rachel, her roommate Ashley, and I went to a cute little place called Zocolo for Happy Hour and had our cute little Sangritas.
Now, I shall backtrack. This week was very eventful aside from the students. Monday was a holiday, and I must say that I was very productive! I went for a run, did a little shopping, wrote a lesson plan, made vegetable soup, visited my grandma, and watched The Bachelor with Rachel and Whitney. Wednesday we went to the basketball game ...which was unfortunately a huge butt whoopin'. We had fun anyway, however. Mark came into town for it and brought with him an adorable monogrammed bag for me! It's a perfect teacher bag. I LOVE IT. We had VIP passes to the game thanks to a guy Pat works with so we got to go into the Lone Star Club and have drinks before the game. Besides all of the burnt orange, it was pretty cool :) After the game, my friends were nice enough to go to the Pluckers by my house (which is WAY north of Austin) and drop me off at home. Totes worth it. Thursday we went to see Mercy Me in concert. They were just as awesome as I imagined they would be! The lead singer was hilarious and had a beautiful kind of joy about him...you could just really see God in him.
I hope to be productive today. The Ags play K. State at 1pm and the sips play Kansas at 3pm. I also need to go buy some skinny jeans. Theeeen we're going downtown tonight! Itsss gonna be a good day!
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Monday, January 17, 2011
Chain Reaction
Two days in a row! Looks like I'm doing well!
I can't believe I forgot to include probably the biggest thing that's happened in my life in the past week. I've told some of my friends about this but there are a few updates. My grandma was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer a few years ago called Mastacytosis. It affects about 6 people in America and is sort of like Leukemia. She went into remission about 2 1/2 years ago and has been doing very well. After Christmas, however, she started getting sick again. Long story short, she ended up at Seton for a blood and platelet transfusion and found out that her cancer turned into Acute Leukemia. She started up on a different kind of chemo than what she was on and is still in the hospital now (she was admitted last Wednesday.) She has had a lot of visitors and has been in good spirits for the most part. Her chemo isn't making her sick but her low immune system is. We were told yesterday that she probably has about 6 months...I took that with a grain of salt because my grandpa was told that many times and kept going for many years! I will definitely try to make the most of my time with her and not take her for granted like I have so often in the past, but I will not let her use that "sentence" as a reason to give up.
We're working on getting her an account set up for the directed donor program. Luckily January is like National Blood Donor month or something so there are lots of blood drives! Hopefully it will work out for all of our friends to donate directly to her.
My mom is really going to need some prayers through all of this as well. My grandma lives next door to us so Mom usually ends up taking care of her. Of course my mom does this because she loves her, but it definitely takes a toll on her. Mom is an empty nester who is used to only worrying about herself and my dad now so this is kind of like handing her a new child to take care of. I hope none of that sounds callous! It's just that things like this tend to have a chain reaction.
All of that being said, I trust that God has a great plan for my grandma and for all of us. His plan for me right now is to finish up this post and review my lesson on prepositions that I will teach the kiddos tomorrow! It will probably involve me standing UNDER a chair, ON a chair, IN a chair, etc, etc. Can't wait!!! :)
I can't believe I forgot to include probably the biggest thing that's happened in my life in the past week. I've told some of my friends about this but there are a few updates. My grandma was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer a few years ago called Mastacytosis. It affects about 6 people in America and is sort of like Leukemia. She went into remission about 2 1/2 years ago and has been doing very well. After Christmas, however, she started getting sick again. Long story short, she ended up at Seton for a blood and platelet transfusion and found out that her cancer turned into Acute Leukemia. She started up on a different kind of chemo than what she was on and is still in the hospital now (she was admitted last Wednesday.) She has had a lot of visitors and has been in good spirits for the most part. Her chemo isn't making her sick but her low immune system is. We were told yesterday that she probably has about 6 months...I took that with a grain of salt because my grandpa was told that many times and kept going for many years! I will definitely try to make the most of my time with her and not take her for granted like I have so often in the past, but I will not let her use that "sentence" as a reason to give up.
We're working on getting her an account set up for the directed donor program. Luckily January is like National Blood Donor month or something so there are lots of blood drives! Hopefully it will work out for all of our friends to donate directly to her.
My mom is really going to need some prayers through all of this as well. My grandma lives next door to us so Mom usually ends up taking care of her. Of course my mom does this because she loves her, but it definitely takes a toll on her. Mom is an empty nester who is used to only worrying about herself and my dad now so this is kind of like handing her a new child to take care of. I hope none of that sounds callous! It's just that things like this tend to have a chain reaction.
All of that being said, I trust that God has a great plan for my grandma and for all of us. His plan for me right now is to finish up this post and review my lesson on prepositions that I will teach the kiddos tomorrow! It will probably involve me standing UNDER a chair, ON a chair, IN a chair, etc, etc. Can't wait!!! :)
Sunday, January 16, 2011
New Life
I am obviously horrible at keeping up with my blog! Hopefully I can start posting more often than every two months :)
So...much has changed since my last post! I'm now in Austin living with my brother and sister-in-law and student teaching at Naumann Elementary School. I am so incredibly blessed right now because every single aspect of this new living/working arrangement is beyond wonderful. I've always been close with Pat and Allison so living with them has been a smooth transition and is very comfortable and very fun! My school is absolutely wonderful. I am in love with my 5th graders and I love learning new and better ways to teach them. I learn new things every day, either from my cooperating teacher or from the students. I tell you what, you don't realize how much you've forgotten until you try to teach it! I totally forgot what subject and object pronouns were until I had to TEACH them the other day....so yes, I am learning a lot. I also believe there is a good chance that I will get hired on either at this school or at a surrounding school. I'm in the process of researching duplexes a little south of here for next year in case I do get a job. It is very exciting!
As much as I know I will miss being in College Station this semester, I am so happy to be moving on a little early. I can't wait to explore Austin (I started exploring a little by accident yesterday!) and learn the ins and outs of this incredible city.
Since I don't have school tomorrow and I have been bumming the last two days, I plan on being very productive, beginning with going to Target and buying that leather jacket I can't stop thinking about, going for a run, writing lesson plans, making vegitable soup for dinner, and topping of the night with a Bachelor viewing party at Whitney and Rachel's house. It's going to be a great day!
So...much has changed since my last post! I'm now in Austin living with my brother and sister-in-law and student teaching at Naumann Elementary School. I am so incredibly blessed right now because every single aspect of this new living/working arrangement is beyond wonderful. I've always been close with Pat and Allison so living with them has been a smooth transition and is very comfortable and very fun! My school is absolutely wonderful. I am in love with my 5th graders and I love learning new and better ways to teach them. I learn new things every day, either from my cooperating teacher or from the students. I tell you what, you don't realize how much you've forgotten until you try to teach it! I totally forgot what subject and object pronouns were until I had to TEACH them the other day....so yes, I am learning a lot. I also believe there is a good chance that I will get hired on either at this school or at a surrounding school. I'm in the process of researching duplexes a little south of here for next year in case I do get a job. It is very exciting!
As much as I know I will miss being in College Station this semester, I am so happy to be moving on a little early. I can't wait to explore Austin (I started exploring a little by accident yesterday!) and learn the ins and outs of this incredible city.
Since I don't have school tomorrow and I have been bumming the last two days, I plan on being very productive, beginning with going to Target and buying that leather jacket I can't stop thinking about, going for a run, writing lesson plans, making vegitable soup for dinner, and topping of the night with a Bachelor viewing party at Whitney and Rachel's house. It's going to be a great day!
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