monana, a photo montauge

mao of the city!
Hiar care products in the grocery store!
Large zuchnni from student
BIg Sky Country!
lightening storm!

I am a terbbile sopeller, but here are some pictures of the place that i live! basicly flat and brown. Some pictures of Glacier to come later!

Story time!!!

Alright, so many of you suspected that i might have some good stories coming out of my recent move to conrad, MT. and i have many....

first, i am renting a house that was built by the grandfather of parents of two of my students (remember i only have 5). Strange... stranger yet they stopped by the see the house the day i moved in....

second, i am in the grocery store... i am looking for cheese. a 16 year old worker starts up a converstaion about cheese.... he proceded to rank the cheeses for me, which brand was the best for the cheapest amount and so on. in case you are intrested in the cheese ranking in montanna it goes tillamook, kraft, something wiht a house on the front, and last the IGA brand. i bouthg the one with the house on the front.

Also in the grocery store i ran into the lady who i bought my mattress from and she told me my principle had come looking for me at the mattress store and wondered if she had found me alright. odd, mostly because i had agreeed to meet her at her husbands insurance agency across the street from the furniture store!
I have a wonderful picture of something i foudn in the grocery store, but i have to get some stuff organized before i post it.

on thursday the mum of one of my studnets wanted to have lunch with me and my mum. we went to a pizza joint, yes folks there are two pizza places in conrad. I will have to post pictures. (not of the lunch, but the town)

Last but not least I have an excellent story. At church (i went with the mum of my one 6th grader), they first introduced me to a guy(25?) whose name is Lock. funny? yes. it gets better. He proceds to tell me how is brother, Lake, quit school becuase he got a job and started buying guns!

Do not let me give you a false impression of conrad, it is a nice community and there are no people in this down in my age range. (expect for lock who lives a couple towns away and only comes to church once the singing is over, just in time for the sermon). BUt all in all it seems good. I am extreemly overwhelmed by the start of school, but the town keeps me laughing. i might forget how to be social.

quality time

Wow! I do not think that i am very good at this posting often thing. Just a quick update! I worked at camp for a week, and i worked my bum off! seriously! I did more work in this last week then i have done all summer. Also i spent some quality time with good friends, i forgot what it was like to have friends who know you well. I discovered how much my adult friends mean to me too, and that was good. I feel so at home at the IH because of my adult friends and the friends i have collected over the years. So a good week spent there. I wish i had some really good picutres, but technology is the bain of my very short and impaint existance.

on other news i have yet to pack and organize and i think it has not yet hit me excatlly what it means that i am moving to Montanna for longer then 5 months. This will be the longest amount of time i have spent anywhere! (in the last 2 years that is) I do have a place to live and that is really a blessings. I just think God is so amazing, He truly does provide. well, that is the end of it! i have no idea what the technology will be like once i get to MT, but i hope good.