This is probably going to be more like alist than anything. :)
I finished teaching my second grade class on May 31st. It's weird to know that I'm never going to see those kids again since I won't be back teaching next year :( It was hard, but expected. Not seeing them again is what hit me the hardest. I had a bunch of kids ask me why I was moving and asked me to stay and teach. One even estimated how long I would be in grad school (3 years) and asked if I would be back to teach while she was in 5th grade so she could see me again. It's nice to know they liked me after all. :) I loved their little good bye notes. Sigh, I'm realy going to miss them. I still have pictures of the masks they made forever ago, just haven't gotten around to posting them. I want to post our class picture, but am too afraid to do so due to privacy, security, etc.
Big old ramble behind the cut, probably boring for all of you :)
What have I been doing since then? well, heh, surprisingly quite a bit. I had a workshop to teach for four days last week. That was fun, and well worth it. :) My parents are remodeling a bedroom in their house. IN that bedroom was my hope chest. So they had to box everything up and send the hope chest here. It was weird going through all my stuff again and deciding what to keep and what to throw away. I threw away about two kitchen garbage bags full of junk. I still have a lot of junk there. Going through it all reminded of how much I did when I was in junior high and high school. I really am quite the overachiever. :) Tons of certificates and trophies everywhere. I didn't realize I had that many. I just received another plaque, so I now have 4 plaques. I'll be receiveing another one soon with my diploma on it (thanks to mom and dad, it's my graduation present to have it preserved).
My parents just sent me my teacher's certificiate. I'm a level 1 certified teacher by the state of Utah for the next three years. Meanwhile Ineed to take my second praxis test to get my second level teaching certificiate. This will also be while I'm in grad school (for the next three years). After grad school I'll also have a special education license as well as an endorsement for teaching hearing impaired children. I still have a ways to go before I acheieve my dream after that though. Though Washington state may be the place that I acheive this dream. :) (we'll see how hubby does with school and where we end up).
I know I'm good to go on teaching should I decide to teach now. My principal at the school I worked at for the last while, kept asking what I was doing after this year of teaching. He wanted to see if I would be able to stay there if I didn't get into grad school, but lo and behold, I got accepted to grad school. I also got a phone call to my parent's house from another school district asking if I would teach there. They were sent my reusme and letters of recommendations and evaluations and wanted me. It's nice to know that I'll actually be ok no matter wha thappens. I could have a career now, but it's not what I want, and it's not fully what I'm meant to do. I need more. In time though, in time.
It's been nice to have a break though. I've never really taken the time to take off time. And this weekend alone and this week will be enough to make me feel refrshed and ready to go again. I've been laying out by the pool, reading Shell Seekers, playing video games (harry potter and pinball mostly), cleaning, cooking, jogging, and vegging out by the tv. I still have more of everything that I just listed to do, especially the jogging part. Just found out that I'm actually 60 lbs over my goal weight, wow, and just last year, I was only 30 lbs over it, eek.
Gonna have to take care of it now before I really let go. This is especially frightening since I'm going to the doctor on Wednesday, and I know she'll tell me part of my health problems lately are due to being overweight. However, I think there's more to it. It at least as to be a more severe lactose intolerant condition. Though, it could possibly be celiac. Two of my cousins (my mom's side) have been diagnosed with celiac in the past couple of months. They are from two separate families, but still blood related to each other and me. I also have a cousin who has type 1 diabetes which is closely related to celiac, and is also from another family, but still related to me through my mother as well. So we're pretty concerned that might be what is affecting me and everything I eat. (I'm gassy and have nasty indigestion EVERY day, no matter what, this wasn't happening two years ago at all). So, we'll keep our fingers crossed, but it seems to be that no matter what, I'll hav eto change to a special diet, which I am not looking forward to just because I leave cheese and carbohydrates so much. I love cheese more than chocolate, yeah, I'm that insane.
I've been keeping busy with stuff from being on a national board and with research and homework to collecting information for my scholarship for grad school. I have a federal grant that will pay tuition and books for the whole time I'm in grad school, but I'm also working on another scholarship to prove that I have got to have this masters and endorsement in order to do what I want to do. THis way, the scholarship will pay for at least a good portion of tuition and books and we can use the grant to help with living expenses and make it so that both of us won't have to work as much and put more focus on school. It's a lot of work though, I stared this in March/April, and I'm still working on it (yes I have been actively working on it). With all this work, I REALLY pray that I get the scholarship or else all this grief for nothing.
Other than that, (gee that's all, that whole list...gosh I'm not doing anything with my life at all!!!) life has been ni ce and easy. I hope to get some harp and piano practicing in this summer as well as some cross stitching and shuttling (not sure what it's actually called, but you use a shuttle to make doilies or fancy edges for blankets or watever using a single thread and making it all pretty). I miss doing that stuff (yes I am domesticated, believe it or not).
Hope everyone else is doing well, and yes I do read your posts, just been busy for the past 9 months :)
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