hahahaha!

I got confetti all over a friends car from over 1000 miles aways! Hahahaha!

of ice wine and hot tubs!

yesterday a friend of mine invited me over for ice wine, it was me and these three guys, you know how i feel about that. But we all brought a bottle of ice wine, so we had three to try, becuase one was the same. Three glasses of ice wine later i was sweetened out! that stuff is so good, but sooo sweet! Then we went in the hot tub! ahhh, i felt the stresses go away. I slept for the first time soundly through the night scince spring break. it was amazing. Then i got the funniest story ever from a friend... my day was sooo good.

until... i found out that none of the 5 schools i applied to called me back for interviews and so i have to start the job search all over again and i am soo tired of it! If you think about it, pray that i will have direction about where to apply to. and that anyone will hire me! thanks!
have a good day!

I am a ground troop`

So today i have been thinking about war. I was thinking about the war of Justice. I was thinking about the vietnam war. i was thinking about the war in Iraq. I was not thinking about being the ground troop in terms of teaching, but that is what our new "advertiser" guy said to us. He wanted to know what the ground troops knew, for us to tell him our hopes and fears in terms of marketing ourselves (as a school) to parents and so forth.
i am reading a prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, and it is an intense yet hillarious, and long, but intriging story about a boy and his childhood best friends. It talks about the vietnam war and the era that was the 60's. I have this constantly on the brain and it intrigues me what that means.
so back to being a ground troop, some days i do feel like a troop daily fighting against the will of my studnets to give me such violent disrespect. I think about daily fighting the desire to sleep and not go to school (although i tried that once this year, on accident and it only proved to be a pain, i made it to school in 15 min). I think about the fight to have a job again someday. I think about the daily fight to love. I never thought that it would be such a fight to love somebody. it takes so much out of me to truly love another human being as well as truly love, evenly toughly my studnets.
Did i mention we are having a monsooon today in Denver and my shoe is broken. So there.

16th-18th century teaching!

So this week on monday night, i realized grandparents day was on friday and so i was going to have to plan accordingly. The 8th graders were gone this week and so suddenly i had some extra time to move and shift things around. This week i changed my classroom into an art mueseum. I used my currator project from Art history (i can't believe i actually used it!) and i gave my studnets packets to fill out, mini projects to due to explore things, covered my door with a sheet and let them learn on thier own, this is my favourite style of learning. The grandparents of my kindergateners loved it! It was a good day!
but in 7th grade bible i had some students write on the board that they wrote the following sentance exactly "when u sin it is bcuz u r tempted."
i almost died! What is this technology doing to the formation of language and the laziness of the coming generation. I was appalled, and it made me wonder. Well enough about that, but here are some pics of the art museum (and maybe of a beautiful park) -- i borrowed the school camera!
well..i can;t get the pics to work again, surprise surprise, so maybe pics will follow later!:)

Sunshine state!

Marie and Me at the Salvador Dali museum!
At the beach, turn your head sideways.:)

In the harbor, hmmmm, warm!

i hate posting pics, so this is it! It is frusterating!

FLORIDA!!!!!!!!

So for Spring break this year i went to Tampa to visit with Marie, it was the most amazing spring break ever! Totlaly relazing and totally what i needed right now! We went to the beach, the zoo, a Salvador Dali museum, the beach, shopping, hte pool, drank sweet tea! It was amazing! I went to the most histerical out doors store, it was like in a forest in the middle of the city, totally wierd! pictures will soon follow! But i loved it! then it will be back to the grind on monday, but in the mean time I intend to enjoy my last few days off of school. It seems a litle crazy to me that the end of the year is coming so soon, and the reality is i still have no job. but i have met a few people who are looking for teachers, but i am already tired of hte process! blah! But florida was amazing, it is sooo good to be with people who know you so well and you know them so well that you are totally comfortable around them. What a blessing!