Be Great

From my conversation with Alex, we each chose three things that we would love to be great at. His priorities are: cooking, web mastering, and fitness. I decided to go with: cooking, running, and Spanish. The beauty behind these goals is that we already kicked off some experience with them and why can't we be straight up awesome at each of those? I'm going to try to make lunch/dinner tomorrow after I get back from 24. Tomorrow I'm trying Zumba for the very first time - not too sure how I'll hold up but I'm excited.

Today's interview went pretty well but I believe the sample lesson plan in the evening tripped me up a bit more. One more interview Thursday. I will keep my head up!

ESL Position?

I got a call a couple weeks ago about interviewing for a charter school near my house. This will be for an elementary ESL position but on Tuesday they want a short lesson plan for any subject in third grade. I'm kind of nervous but excited at the same time. With anyone, this limbo period is can be so nerve-wrenching. Someone give me a chance, please!

Daily Blessings

As I'm onto my last weekday alone at Alex's, I'm slowly cleaning up our clothes and I find that he has a drawer with my clothes in there. Surprisingly, he hasn't said a word about it but occasionally he always knows where my clothes are. Anyways, I just thought it was so sweet! I hope that I can be a more patient person like him.

Olympics in Plano

I've had such a good time watching the Olympics this year! During the day while Alex is at work, they've been showing the events like volleyball and kayaking. At night, they really show the good ones including gymnastics and swimming. It was so epic when the women's gymnastics won gold last night! Also go Phelps for beating the most decorated athlete. I'm also rooting for the women's beach volleyball team. Whoo!!

End

I left the Austin College campus today. I'm so glad that I met so many amazing people that I can't wait to continue to keep in touch with. I now have a reason to visit North Carolina and Ohio! Now I'm going to spend a week in Plano, hopefully spending my days watching the Olympics, filling out job applications, and taking my teacher certification class. It's pretty exciting.

Bug Trip

I volunteered to drive for the Anthropology class yesterday as they attended a field trip with the bugs class. Sure, I didn't end up catching or touching anything too scary but just the fact that I would go out to somewhere I wasn't comfortable with was enough for me. It was fun to see how brave the kids were and how much they knew about bug catching and different insects. Scariest part? When we were nearly ready to head back to campus, I saw a little red insect in the grass I was sitting next to. Thinking it was a lady bug, I took a closer look and saw that it was a black and red striped ant that was almost an inch long! One of the students said it was a red velvet ant and told us that it was extremely poisonous. An Anthropology kid was brave enough to catch it in her killing jar.

Wait, update: I just read up on the "ant" and it's actually not an ant but instead it's a wingless wasp. Maybe it's not poisonous but it looks like it'd still hurt a lot if you got stung. I would not be a happy camper if yesterday was my second wasp attack :(

I had a great day off yesterday! On Friday night, we went out to J Black for Tim's birthday. To no surprise, I was so exhausted after I passed out in the car and immediately when we got home too. The next day we went to get a replacement bulb since my brake lights went out. Thanks to Alex's dad, we (or he more than I) now know how to switch brake lights on our own. Then we went to watch the Amazing Spiderman with his parents. Afterwards, we cooked chicken lettuce wraps and spring rolls. Cooking is pretty exhausting but it was still fun and delicious. I think we're on a roll.

Job update: I've applied to about five jobs outside of Education in both Houston and Dallas. Still playing the waiting game.