It's Been Quite Awhile

I guess I have been somewhat busy, but not really, but that's the excuse I will give for not posting for awhile. Let's see, what has happened since my last post?

*I went to California for my birthday!
I took a few days off of work right before our Fall Break so I had just over a week to play in California. I started off by spending a couple of days in LA with my older brother. It had been awhile since I got to spend some time with him, so it was nice to just visit with him. While I was there, he set me up on a date with one of his friends, we had fun building a couch fort. We then met up with our sister and her family in Anaheim to spend two days at Disneyland. It was her kids' first time going so it was fun to see it through their eyes. I wish I had pictures to post, but my sister has them all. After Disneyland, I drove up north with my sister to spend a couple of days with my parents. Even though I had seen my family over the summer, I had not been home since Christmas, so it was nice to just be home for a couple of days.

*I have a student teacher.
The two other teachers in 6th grade and I decided to all have student teachers in our classes this year. They will spend a total of 6 weeks in our classes, 2 of which they do their solo teaching where we're not even supposed to be in the room. As of today, we are almost halfway through the solo teaching experience which means my co-workers and I have had nothing to do. We asked our principal for a list of things we could do for the school and so everyday we have had some kind of excursion including the following places: Home Depot, Sam's Club, the grocery store, and the junior high school. I have also taken it upon my self to help the 5th grade teachers at our school and wherever else. For the most part, it has been a good break from the norm, but also a slough of new experiences.

*I dressed up as a co-worker for Halloween.
Last year, as a 6th grade, we dressed up like the janitors and a lunch lady at the school so we had to have costumes that were just as hilarious this year. I ended up dressing up as our school's facilitator (she mostly helps with the new teachers and student teachers and cohorts from the local college) while Garrett was the principal (whose name is Dwight) and Adam was Dwight from The Office. It was good fun, too bad the one I was dressed up like was home sick with the swine flu. For Halloween night, I went to a barn dance with a group of friends, but I figured no one would understand my costume of my co-worker so I had to come up with another so I threw on my old winter formal dress and a tiara and...BAM, instant princess! I realized later I should have topped it off with my "Miss California" sash I made for a costume a few years ago.

*I watched the meteor shower last week.
So crazy me decided it would be a good idea to stay up way past my bedtime with some friends to watch the meteor shower last Monday. We did our normal Monday night movie/TV shows and then packed up the truck and headed up the canyon. By 1 am we were situated in the back of the truck covered in jackets, blankets, and sleeping bags while holding onto some hot chocolate and waited for things to zoom across the sky. It got pretty interesting as I got my second wind around 1:30. We told ourselves we would head back to town at 2 am so I got home and into bed around 3 am. Just enough time to fall asleep and wake up again at 6 am! I was not very lively at work the next day, it's a good thing I have a student teacher!