Go Warriors!

i am now a Greenville Tech Charter High School Warrior! i will get to teach English I starting in the fall. i am so excited to have a job, and not just any old job, but a job that i really wanted and will be happy to do. it will be fun to hang out with the freshmen and experience their first year of high school with them! if you want to learn more about my wonderful new place of employment, click the title of this post!

also, i am now finished student teaching- yay! it was a very educational experience, but it is really a hard thing to teach full time and go to school. i'm going to have to figure out how to better master that type of multi-tasking when i decide to go back for my next degree! as for now, i'm enjoying a few weeks of down time before summer jobs and summer school all begin.

cinco...

wow! How did it get to be May so quickly? Sometimes I wish the spring wasn't so springy- don't you? While I am aware that I am the worst blogger in the history of blogs- I will defend myself by saying that not much of note has been happening around these parts, so I'm trying to save you the boredom of reading about nothing. Although Sinefield was about nothing and that seemed to do pretty well.... Regardless, it is the Cinco of Mayo and I have no plans to eat Mexican food tonight- more probably it will be pizza because it is raining, cold, and generally quite yucky outside and no food says warm and comfy better than a pizza.

On the school front, Wednesday will be my last day in the high school as a student teacher. I have mixed emotions about that- happy to have some time to concentrat on my own school work before I have to present my portfolio but sad to leave most of the students (no, not all of them.) I'm amazed at how quickly I became attached to these crazy kiddos- especially my little freshman class. I know I will be back at the school to check on them before they are out for the summer, but not being there all the time will be weird after these past few months. The job for next year question is still that- a question, but will hopefully be answered soon. Could happen this week or not until the summer. I do know after this whole thing that I'm going to like being a teacher- kids are pretty fun to be around and they keep me on my toes- which I need.

In other news, Winston and I have been discussing the possibility of getting another puppy in our family. Winston is quite wary of this and it will take some convincing, but he might be willing to share his house with a big dog that is not allowed on the furniture and especially his bed. This will be an ongoing conversation so don't expect any additions in the near future.

No other news to report- I told you I was boring. I'm ready for summer and a little excitement in my life- maybe I'll find a new hobby! I'm off to do a little bit of work before the Derby this evening. Riding high on my first ever victory in the derby picks last year, I took two horses for today- Nobiz like Shobiz and Any Given Saturday. I'm sticking to my gameplan of picking based solely on name and colors of the silks! I have fifty big ones (cents that is) riding on my picks so wish me luck!

my student teaching rock...

yes, I have been under the student teaching rock for the past two months and will be re-submerging again on Tuesday. However, this week is spring break so I'm taking abreak from lesson planning and test grading to actually be a real person! Teaching is great, I love most of my students and think so much of the wonderful teachers who are helping me everyday to become better.

At the beginning of the week, I took a short beach vacation with Anne and her girls, and one of my new teacher friends from school, Valerie. We loaded up the party van and headed down to Seabrook for a few days of needed sun and relaxing by the pool. It was great to be able to hear the ocean and breathe salty air for a few days. We stopped in Charleston before heading home and took some great pictures at the Battery- I'll post soon.

On Wednesday, Maceyfacey went with me to the spa to get our toes done. She proclaimed it was "the best spa day she had ever had" and we agreed to do it again soon! Maybe for Juniper and Michael's wedding.

Otherwise, I'm trying to keep a low profile this week and rest. I am doing some planning for our next unit at school- but not enough to activate the knot of tension that has been residing between my shoulders. After break I will start the job interviewing process which will hopefully end with me signing a teaching contract for the next school year and doing a giant happy dance to once again be gainfully employed!

time flies...

wow! what a crazy month i have had! traveling to florida twice to cheer on the deacsand to dallas once for a wonderful wedding, spending the week before Christmas working on wedding plans with mom and ferf, and starting a new term at school! almost everything seems bright, sparkly, and new. i am finally home for a while after all that travel- which i might add was not the smoothest air travel i've encountered, but i now have credit with both expedia and american airlines for my next destination!- and i'm glad to have time to hang out and relax some before i start student teaching in the spring. here are a few pictures from the past few weeks!

Jennie is excited about being in Miami for the Orange Bowl!

Jennie, Carrie, and me- welcoming Deacon fans at the front gate!

Deacon fans filled up our alloted sections- it was a magnificant sight!

Amanda, Susan, and Lucy let me break up their all black group!

Lucy and Potty posing for their close-up

our little family- now Megg-o and Trav-o are the official parents!

nothin' but net...

tonight was a momentous occasion marked by the sharing of chocolate chip cookies in a blue and white striped box. my sweet high school girls church basketball team won their first game! we played the other girls team from our church and i was very glad that we came out on top. hopefully this will turn the tide and we can win out (i'm not holding my breath on that one, but hey stranger things have happened!) the other coach and i have decided to embarce the absolute prissiness of our sweet team and are now on the hunt to find pink tennis socks to match our oh-so-fashinable pink jerseys to give as christmas presents. let me know if you know where these can be found!

in other news, the trip is set and the gang's all here... we are headed to miami to cheer on the deacs in the orange bowl! i can't believe it! after one of the best weekends in my life in jacksonville at the ACC Championship, going to a BCS bowl to cheer on my alma mater is just icing on the cake! hope to see lots of familiar deacon faces on the beach for new years!

Orange in 2007

tailgating before the game (and the rain)

can i just go on record as saying this past weekend in Jacksonville was the best and biggest party I have ever attended? Because it was! Three days later, I'm still hoarse from the multiple hours of standing in the rain and cheering loudly for the Deacs. My favorite part (besides winning the ACC Championship) was being in the stands after the game cheering, "It's great to be a Demon Deacon!" The whole trip was amazing- great friends, wonderful tailgate, AMAZING VICTORY, and a ridiculous "going to the orange bowl" celebration. While many details will not be told to protect the innocent and guilty, I will say a hearty thanks to the wait staff at the American Cafe at Jacksonville Landing for enduring multiple rounds of the Wake Forest fight song that involved every patron in the restaurant singing at the top of our lungs and cheering voraciously every time a fellow Deac passed our table! And as a little sidenote to all Georgia Tech fans who spike Wake fans into grassy hills, I'll just say- ORANGE BOWL BOUND, WOOHOO!!!! Hope to see many of you in Miami in the New Year!

i had a ferf sighting at the game!!

the beautiful scoreboard when time expired!

oh my holy wow!

The Wake Forest Demon Deacons are going to play for the ACC Football Championship on Saturday, December 2! Can you believe it? What a great season! What a great day to be a deacon fan- really every day is a great day to be a deacon fan, but today is just exceptionally great! Wow! I can't wait to see this team play in Jacksonville!

In true Wake Forest fashion, the quad has been white with toilet paper all season, which is unusual to those of us who attended Wake when it was a basketball school as opposed to the football powerhouse that it is now! Here is a picture of our beautiful quad!

All I can say is-- GO DEACS!!!