All Great Changes are Preceded by Chaos!

Life threw me a bunch of curve balls this week! Wow! Let me tell you about what is going on. 

We are quickly drawing closer to the end of the semester! Do you know what that means? Lots of homework, projects, papers. Luckily no tests until finals wahoo! My to do list is about a mile long of everything that I need to get done! It's good that I am fairly decent at focusing when I need too! 

I am currently in the process of selling my housing contract at Roman Gardens. A friend of mine is buying it from me and we are just waiting to get everything figured out! She is moving back down to Provo the week after Thanksgiving. That means that during Thanksgiving I have to pack up all of my stuff and move it back to Wyoming. This is my last official week in Roman Gardens. That just blows my mind. It has been my  home for almost 5 semesters! I have grown to love that run down, over-priced Roman Ghettos! I'm definitely going to miss a lot of people there. 

Because I am moving out of Roman Gardens I needed a place to live! My Amazing Big Sister Alice is letting me stay with them for the last month of this semester. I am so glad that she lives close and that I don't have to crash on someones couch for a month! It will be good to live with them and spend some quality time with them before I leave for New Zealand. 

I leave for New Zealand in less than 50 days. I think I'm at 47, but whose counting. AHHH!!!!! We still don't have our Visa's yet! Hopefully we get them soon! I have nightmares about those dang things every night! I hope that everything was filled out right and that I caught everything that I needed to. I also need to think about what I'm going to pack. We get to take 1 fifty pound bag. How in the heck am I supposed to fit everything that I need in one bag! More importantly, how am I supposed to fit everything that I buy when I come home?! 

I also am in the process of deciding if I want to Student Teach next fall or do an internship. If I student teach I will be done next December (2013)! IF I intern I won't be officially graduated until August 2014. WOW! If I student teach I will have a teacher in the classroom with me. If I am an intern, I get paid, have full benefits, and it counts as my first year of teaching, but I am the main teacher. 

If I intern I could go into grad school right away! I just don't know what to do. I am going to interview for the internship, but I don't have to have a solid answer until March. Yikes! It is looking like my interview will be next Monday! Holy Cow! I am not ready for the interview! AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!

Looks like I am going to have to be a grown up sooner than I want to. =( 

I wish Peter Pan would just take me away to Never Land! 

"No Matter How Slow You Go, You Are Still Lapping Everyone On The Couch."

I know this may come as a shock to many of you but I have a confession to make.
I EMILY MAY ATKINSON LOVE TO RUN!! 
Who in their right mind would ever think that those words would come out of my mouth. I always hated running in P.E., I hated track and field day, I just hated running. Who knows what changed, but I'm glad it did.

Running makes me so happy. I love that when I run I forget about all my problems. I love that everything seems to be okay and manageable when I'm done. Running is just amazing.

Now don't get me wrong, I am not a fast runner at all. I do not run crazy long distances. I just run what I can and then walk a little, and then run some more. I keep getting better and am able to run longer and faster!

I love how good I feel after I am done running! It just makes me so happy and I feel better about myself.

RUNNING=AMAZING

                                                      Now to work on
1. Drinking more Water
2. Eating Better
3. Going to Bed Earlier

Here is to a better and healthier me! Here is to becoming the person that I want to be!

No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap. ~Carrie Snow

It is DONE! My unit plan that I have been working on for what seems like ages is done. This comes after a couple of extensions, many hours spent in the library, lesson plans written, worksheets made, and research done. All 34 pages have been turned in and are no longer my concern, except for the lesson I am teaching tomorrow and the grade I will get. I finished with a whole hour to spare. Now what do I do? I know, go over my lesson for tomorrow!

Am I sure I want to be a teacher? =)

"The First One is the Worst One."

Here I am in the library yet again. This time I am trying to get my unit plan done and my lesson ready to teach tomorrow! I am almost done. My lesson is ready, I just need to make task cards for my unit plan and that will be sent away and out of my hair! Wahoo!

Last weekend was a ton of fun! I went shopping with my sister. I bought way too much stuff that I didn't need, but hey sometimes you just need to! That night I also went to the temple with Marjorie and Stephanie! That was great! I love the temple and I don't go as often as I should. I need to work on that. On Saturday I went to the taping of Divine Comedy with Marjorie. It was a lot of fun but really long. I was so grateful that I was able to spend time with these amazing people. I had a lot on my mind and they helped make everything okay and helped me forget about it! Thanks guys!

This week needs to be over with soon. Today I had classes, a presentation, homework, and my visiting teachers are coming over. Tomorrow I have an observation, more homework, and my home teachers are coming over. Thursday I have classes, a group meeting, homework, homework, and more homework. This weekend I might be going home to Wyoming. We will see!

Well I guess my 10 minute break is over. Time to get back to work. I'll leave you with a great song that just came on my Pandora station.

 The next blog will probably be my pro con list of doing an internship or doing student teaching. I have to decide soon. I don't want to be an adult. Decisions Decisions

Where in the HBLL are you?

The HBLL library. What a place! This is where I spend most of my nights and free time. As soon as I am done with classes or with first grade I head over to this place and work my butt off trying to get things done. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't! You see there are a lot of distractions in this massive building. Windows to watch from, lots of people, friends, boys :), you know the usual. Today while I was in the library I got a nice g-chat from my AMAZING friend Marjorie! We were both bored (and supposed to be doing homework). We decided that we wanted to write a story. This is what we got.

once upon a time

  there lived a big fat dinosaur

 me: that wanted to take ballet

Marjorie: but he couldn't cause he scared all the other kids away

me: This made him extremely sad. He hated scaring all the little kids he just really wanted to be the most amazing ballet dancer in the entire universe.

Marjorie: so i decided to teach himself

  but there was a problem, he didn't know anything about ballet

  so he went to the library

me: in the library he found a very cool book that taught him all about ballet. He sat there reading it when all of a sudden a magical fairy appeared and gave him a pair of ballet shoes. He put on the ballet shoes and began dancing around the entire library.

 Marjorie: but it in the HBLL an it was finals week so all the kids were comatose, so they didn't even notice

 me: Now the dinosaur needed to find somewhere else to dance, where people would appreciate the beautiful art form!

Marjorie: so he ran over to the JFSB

  nothing, just people speaking in other languages

  then he went to the mckay

but everyone was just making puppets and had no time to watch him

  he even went to the RB

  but he just got in the way of the basketball game

  with his head down and tears streaming down his face he sat down outside the library

me: What in the world am I going to do? He wondered. As he sat there a purple people eater came up to him.

 Marjorie: he said

do you hear that music?

  do you hear what i hear

  follow me

  the purple people eater took the dinosaur on a mystical journey

 the traveled through book land (bookstore) and food land(cougareat) and finally they arrived in a mystical building with tons of stairs and weird art, and all sort of music

  what is this place? he asked

  this said the purple people eater, is the HFAC

 everyone is accepted here, even dinosaurs who do ballet

 me: Oh how wonderful said the dinosaur. He put on his ballet shoes and started to dance. At first no one was watching him, but he kept dancing anyways. Then, like magic, everyone stopped and watched the dinosaur. It was the most beautiful thing they had ever seen.

 Marjorie: then vocal point came out and he danced to their music

 and then they became famous on tv

  and they lived happily ever after, at NBC

 me: THE END!!!!

Great story huh! We are basically pro!