Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Student Teaching!!!!

I got my placement!!!! Hooray! I will be student teaching in:

Redwood Elementary - West Valley City - Mrs. Berrio's 4th grade class

I am really excited! I am also really glad that it is NOT 6th grade! I was really nervous for 6th. I knew it was going to be 4-6 so 4th is what i was hoping for. I looked it up and found out that the school is about 7 miles from my apt! The map quest thing I used said it would take about 15 mins to get there. That is very nice because I thought it was going to be out in the Sandy/ Jordan area, which is a bit further. Well thats all for now! I have a ton of homework to catch up on so I can be SURE to graduate! :)

Thursday, July 9, 2009

Montana Cousins visit Sandy

Aislinn and Quinton enter the Shields kids world--more photos to come of our Salt Lake adventure.

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Finally! Some Adventure!

So as of right now, my life is still not very adventurous. I get up, I go to work, every Monday Wednesday Friday i go to class, I come home, eat dinner, sometimes i do my homework and then i go to bed. BUT, my friends, that is soon coming to an end and i CANT WAIT! I am getting so excited (but nervous at the same time) for my adventure to begin! This is what the rest of my summer looks like!

Wednesday of this week I pick up my cap and gown! WEIRD (maybe this time my cap will actually fit my head...when i graduated high school they placed my order as a boy so i had to use an extra cap and gown so i could be white like the other girls, not red like the boys. The extra cap was much too small for my rather large head so i had to use like 57 bobbie pins to keep it on my head, which i then forgot about when i had to take my cap off to throw it in the air at the end of graduation...needless to say I didnt end up throwing my cap.... any way... thats another story....)

Wednesday of next week I find out my student teaching placement!!! I am so excited i can hardly stand it! I just want to know! I have been like stalking out all the elementary schools in the Jordan district.

Wednesday in two weeks I have my final for my class and after that I will be DONE with classes in an actual classroom. At least where I am the official student. The very next day (thursday the 23rd) I GRADUATE!!! I havent decided if I am going to commencement or not yet. But i am for sure going to my convocation! You are all invited to come! If you didnt get an invitation already it is at 8 pm in the Hinckley Chapel. The part I am probably most excited for in graduating is the simple fact that a lot of my family is trying to come! And the next few days i will probably just hang out with the family that is still in town.

The week after graduation is my last week at work. I am actually really sad to leave work. Probably the only thing i have actually liked about my summer. I LOVE the girls i work with and the kids are so fun and sweet! A lot of them make my day! I have the perfect job for me. I will be really sad to leave, but SO excited for my up coming adventures!!

After my last day of work on the 31st. I have 3 or 4 days to finish packing up ALL of my junk! (i have a TON so it will probably take me the whole time!) and THEN I am going on a ROAD TRIP to Milwaukee with Whitney and her kids. She wanted someone to drive back with her since Steve is flying back and i very willingly volunteered! I love road trips, and i love my sister and my niece and nephew! How could i resist??? so 3 days on the road to Milwaukee with my favorites! We will get to Milwaukee about the 8th or 9th and then I will spend a few days with them in Milwaukee before flying back to Salt Lake on the 12th of August.

I get into Salt Lake around 2. Hopefully I am feeling human enough to move into my new apt. I found out today that my one and only roommate Katie will be Greece until the 17th!! So I will have the first few days in Salt Lake all by myself! That is a little intimidating but all part of the adventure right???

After i am in Salt Lake a few days I start my student teaching!!!!! YAY! like i said i wont know what school or grade until the 15th...but as soon as i know i will post it on here! yahoo!!! Adventure HERE I COME!

Thursday, July 2, 2009

Summer Slayage and Bugeoning Patriotism

So Aislinn killed an earwig for me today.... and the kids kept singing the following tune every time we passed a flag on the way home from the mechanic's:

Should old acquaintance be forgot
Keep your eye on the grand old flag

Which at some point turned into:

Keep your eye on the big fat flag

And later:

Keep your eye on the stinky flag

Quinton was the one to point out that this was probably disrespectful. But he kept singing it.

So that's been my day. :)