School's Out for the Summer..

Today was the last day of school, i will go back on tuesday to clean out my classroom. and probally a little this weekend! Anwayz, i had mixed feelings as we said good bye to my 8th graders and my 7th graders awkwardly said good bye to me. I felt sad. My mentor teacher asked me if i regreted coming to this school for 5 months. I said no. It was God's timing at excatly the right time for me and for the school. What i learned here is irriplacable. My experaince was wonderful and it left me with a deeper passion for teaching. The only thing i regret is that i am unable to get a job for some reason. I don't understand i am doing everything "right". I send cover letters and resumes, i do follow up contact with schools, i fill out countless applicaitons. I have no idea what i am supposed to be doing. I be-grudling fill out applications for schools and jobs i do not even want, but nothing comes of it.
My heart is with this school, i am sad to leave. As i reflected over the last couple of months i realized how much i had grown as a teacher and as a person. I learned to make friends in new places, i learned how to manage a classroom and the importance of routine. i learned how to work with my co-workers and i learned how to be organzied. I struggled through the tears, the parents, the studnets who won't turn in work. but i rejoiced in the letters of thanks, the pictures colored with love, and the paintings that i recived. I rejioced in teaching something i am passionate about and being told that i helped a child 'love art!' It was worth five months just for that. God has a plan. I am confidant in his ability to get me where i need to be, so I will press on, leaving my life in his hands. Soli Deo Gloria-- To God Alone be the GLory!

My teeth are violin strings

Hello all!

Best friends are good for the soul!

This weekend my dear friend Ann(e) came to visit me on a "buisness" trip. Check out her blog to see her side of the story!:) So we had an amzing time. She arrived at school and watched me teach, and took a nap (behind my desk). While napping my secretary was giving a tour and she popped her head up and smiled (as only ann can). Then my serecarty appologized and moved on. THe family must have thought I sleep on the job or we let homeless people in!:)

Story two, we went to my friend jasons house for a relaxing glass of wine and sometime in the hot-tub. It was amazing! After last week, it seemed perfect!:)

Story three: After eating breakfast on my front porch we went down town on Sat. we ended up at a farmers market (only with ann) :) and i bought some awsome paper, i think i will make a lamp. we wandered around tried on dresses at my fav. dress shop dowtown and ate lunch at a hawain coffee shop. we then sauntered to the art musuem and looked at Claes Oldenburgs sculpture (outside). Then we did some other random stuff.

Here are pictures, i hope!:)

on sunday we at breakfest on my porch swing (in a hurry) and went to my church! THen we made mango salsa and warmed up indian food. Walked at hte park (thankfully didn't run into anyone i knew;) ) and then i brought her to her church for meetings. I miss her.

My life is for Rent.

Best Friends are good for the soul!

New Cell phone

i was thinking abotu buying a new cell phone, becuase i really need an international calling plan. So i found out that midwest wirless does not have an international calling plan at all, in fact it cost me 49 cents a min for calling to canada.So i found T-moble which has a 600 anytime min, free nigthsa dn weekends would be 40 bucs a month. then i would have to pay 20 cents a min for calls to CA. BUt i can buy a frequetn caller plan for $45/ month and then calls to CA only sost 9 cents a min. So the extra plan is 4.99. ok, but here is the dilema, Right now i ahve a phone card for 1.9 cents a moin, but it charges me 99 cents per min for hook up charges. So if they are not home i waste 99 cents. ok, i have spent $50 in teh last 5 months on calling cards. so the plan would be cheaper in that respect, but then i would have to take into consideration being on the phone for more then an hour, so that would cost me 5.40 per hour. i am just not sure what i should do. What kinds of cell phones do you all have? please give me advice!

orange shoes and a good story about cats

So i wore the orange shoes again today, my studnets LOVE them! i laugh at how much they talk about my shoes, i will have to post a pic soon!:)
also, parents (the same ones who hated me) are telling me they will miss me. Life is wierd
three: i am going to miss teaching at this school alot! I feel so un-motivated to find a new school, because i love this one so much!

Ok, good story about a cat, "andrew" told me this one last weekend:
So he was driving home from a wedding with a girl in the car. They rounded a corner and a cat came FLYING out of the bushes and ran into the side of his car. THe girl said" what was that" "Andrew"looks in the review view mirror "oh, i think it was a cat" is all he said, but what he saw was a cat flying head over heals across the road. Andrew drives on. Soon a big SUV comes up behind him, weaving in and out and trying to get next to him. HA, finally accomplished, a guy in an SUV pulls up with big muscles and he looks like he could beat the shit out of somebody. The guy rolls down his window and motions for Andrew to do the same. Andrew rolls down the window, the guy yells "HEY! DID YOU KNOW YOU HIT A CAT BACK THERE? I HAPPEN TO LOVE CATS! YOU BETTER GO BACK AND FIX IT!" Andrew thinks " i can take on this guy!" but dressed in a suit, thinks better of it and goes back to where the cat was. The girl gets out of the car, closes her eyes and goes back to the car. Andrew sees a cat lying mangled, but mostly dead and a little alive on the road. Well now what? So he ponders riding over the cat again, but afraid of anyone seeing him purposefully driving over a cat... they might shoot him. So he gets back in the car and drives on. In the review mirror, a car comes up behind him... SPLAT. The cat is offically dead.

That was gruesome, but i thought it was such a good story. Names have been changed to protect the innocent and some details may have been embelished!:)

be careful of cats today!

Funny stories!

So I only have four weeks left in Denver, three weeks of school, one week of clean and pack. What a crazy time! I still have no job, but i have had an intresting series of events over the last couple of weeks.
Two sundays ago, i was in the park, drawing. When a random girl came up to me and started asking me if she could sit by me and talk. So i agreed, after about 20 min she had told me her whole life story and all of her struggles from the last week. Maybe i am a hypocrite and maybe i am un-compasionite, but it was hard for me to want to sit there and listen, when she seemed to want a listening ear, but expected me to respond as well.
During the course of our converstaion as well as previously i had watch a man walk around the lake 5 times, so on the 5th time i waved. He had a cool camera, so i made a mental note if i saw him again to ask about it. Conviently he sat down ten feet from me. i found out later he was thinking abotu coming over, but he thought that the random girl and i were good friends and he didn;t want to interupt. Awnayz, after the girl left, i went over to the guy and talked with him for a while. I asked about the camera and he asked if i wanted to go for a walk... what hte heck, we are in a park... so i agreed. an hour later at the end of the walk, he asked if he could call me, again, why not. so i gave him my number, we went for dinner on monday night to a GREAT vegitarian resurtant and made plans to go paddle boating in the park if the weather is nice this sunday.
Same day another random guy at the singles church asked me if i wanted to meet for cofee, why not. So i gave him my number, we went for cofee on tuesday afternoon and left it with that. I feel comfortable with only seeing him at church.
I was wondering what is happening with this sudden flood, but as my mentor teacher put it "go out and have fun, you only have a few weeks left" point well taken. I will have fun! and it is sunny, so now i am off for a walk. i wore bright orange shoes today and my studnets loved it!;) hahaha! i miss hearing good stories... if you have one... let me know....

Beauty and the Beast

This weekend i helped with backstage managment, lights, and set moving for the Van Dellen christian middle schools production of the broadway play "Beauty and the Beast". Can you believe that 60 middle school studnets were able to act in a 2 1/2 hour play? I was amazed! They did such an amaazing job! I just love them soo much! I never (ever, ever) thought that i would say how much i love jr high studnets and how proud i am of them! THey are amazing! I had such a good time with my 4 seventh grade set movers! We had our own little club!:) It was super! Plus, i got to do some makeup for my middle schoolers, including old age, grey hair and all sorts of amazing things! I just love theater, i had forgotten how much i love the theater and how much i love my school.
I watched all my students in gems and cadets be involved in my morning church service and it brought me to tears to see that i will have to leave teaching my students. I love them soo much! I am sad to leave, but God always has something new to teach and show me, i wonder what is next.