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I’ve hit 1000 readers!

Just thought I’d commemorate 

It has been so long since I’ve blogged, it’s amazing to me that I still have a faithful readership.  I’m sure I can atribute most to dear friends and family, but still, it’s nice to see the page count go up, even when I’m not writing. 

I figured, therefore, that it was high time for a new update.  As most of you know, I am student teaching this semester at the high school I graduated from.  I have recently taken over all three classes, so I am teaching full time for two World History classes and one Honors US History class.  I have a great group of kids, minus a couple issues which I won’t really go in to.  There are a couple kids in my World History classes who seem eager to learn, they just need a little pushing.  My honors class is great, it is a packed house with every desk filled, but they are a great group of kids.  Most of them have known each other for a while (which is obvious in the way they joke around) and they bounce off of each other really well.  So far we’ve been able to do several really, really fun activites where they’ve been able to get up and move around.  Creative license is a really big deal for me and I like to see where I can draw it out of my students whenever I can.  And some of the products have been, while at times borderline (thanks to Andrew Jackson’s bigamist wife) have been fun.  Now granted, such as with every group, there are some kids in that class who are about to drive me crazy, but even they aren’t the worst—trust me, I’ve seen worse.  I can’t help but feel a fondness for these kids in all my classes.  Even the ones who drive me insane when the bell rings are generally good kids deep down, some of them just have a lot of bagage. 

In other news: I have FINALLY bought my plane ticket to Dublin! We hadn’t heard anything from the illustrious Dr. Angel in a while, so my mom and I composed a polite, but forceful email inquiring into the status of the situation.  Wouldn’t you know that in one hour, the woman who never responds to emails, responds that very evening with the go ahead to buy my ticket.  We found a pretty good deal through Aer Lingus, the Irish airline, but of course, the frequent flyer points were not going to apply towards that one.  Honestly, I was a little disapointed.  I wanted the whole Irish experience, airline and all.  However, the economy is as the economy does, and Continental will work just fine.  I only hope they are comprable to the Continental flights that Spencer and Dad took to Hawai’i last summer with tvs in the headrests of the seat infront of you and free snacks (unlike American where you now have to pay $6 a pop for a bag of chips–gah!), otherwise, that is going to be a LOOOOOOOONG flight.  I have a feeling that I am going to get a lot of my backed up reading done between March 25 and May 6—-or at least ON March 25 and May 6, because while I’m there, I’d rather be out exploring the streets of Dublin than reading.  And can you blame me?

Well anyway, I think I’ve pretty well covered it.  I don’t have a whole lot of a social life recently (I can’t even remember the last time I saw someone between 20-29).  I’ve been going to Hope Community church, which is a change for me.  I like the college class there a lot, but it is a 3o minute drive away, so we’ll see.  At least there are folks there who are willing to get to know me.  Other than that, I’ve basically been using this post as a procrastination technique.  I’m sitting in the classroom after school waiting for a kid to finish taking a test and this seemed way more fun than writing up an observation report (which are due Monday, of course).  So until next time, when I will hopefully have something more enlightening to write about, I bid thee adieu, faithful readers.