Sunday, May 19, 2013

Mother's Day

Since I didn't post about this last week, I'd like to make sure to write an entry about mother's day this year. Alex and I both jumped in my fuel-efficient car right after work last Friday and headed down highway 75. I dropped him off at the Woodlands so he could go spend time with his family while I spent the entire weekend with mine (yep, even Andrew was home)! For dinner, we went to Samurai Sushi & Hibachi restaurant and followed up with some Baskin Robbins.



My awkward confession? I never know where to put my hands in photos! Louis is such a good sport about always willing to take these photos for us. It's wonderful that he's going to officially be part of our family even though we already consider him as a member of this strange pack. 

Tuesday, May 14, 2013

Running

I was asked by my job to write a brief biography about my career experiences as well as including some hobbies; of course running was one of the things I listed. Today I re-completed week 6, part 3 of the C25K schedule. The last time it looks like I completed this was back in September! That means the new goal to beat sometime this week is to walk 5 minutes, run 25 minutes. I think this would be the very first time completing week 7 so I really hope I keep it up.

One of my students from the high school gave me a token that he received from one of his boxing idol's when he was a very young age. This was so difficult for me to accept, but just a couple of days ago he wrote me a letter letting me know his struggles with family and everyone around him and how they doubt his potential for becoming successful both in life, but also more specifically in boxing. He said that I was the only person who has ever shown him faith that he can achieve more. These small moments really validate what I have already helped others achieve, it's such a wonderful feeling. The picture below is of several of my 1st period office workers as well some others that I constantly worked with. They threw me a surprise going away party which included tamales, flowers, and SO much cake.






Wednesday, May 8, 2013

Aftermath

I survived my first week in Dallas! The new job has been a dream come true but is most definitely a challenge that I'm eager to take on. I can't think of one job that I've had that I knew was coming my way and was entirely prepared for it, well retrospectively TCBY sounds like it was an easy job! Parking was no fun though. I haven't started to meet with students just yet but will hopefully begin to work with them in the next coming weeks. The campus is gorgeous and provides such a fantastic working environment that I haven't experienced before.

On top of all this, I managed to finish my finals for my second semester of graduate school - ending both courses with a 4.0! So very excited that all the hard work is paying off.