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| Family Picture before leaving |
We made it!!!! Sorry it has been so long. Whew, between finishing up student teaching one which entailed making a complilation of my 2nd graders videos, getting them gifts, getting final projects done for my methods classes to packing, taking a three day road trip half way across the country, arriving at a new school, meeting new face after new face, coaching soccer and jumping into teaching already......blogging has definately well let's just be honest here, one of the last things on my mind! But here i am....doing this for you, my fans whom i love haha. (hi mom)
Anyways...quick wrap up of my final week at East Butler in Brainard NE....
- I started playing soccer with the kids at recess, since it was finally "warm" enough to go outside.....and let's just say I didn't keep track of all the goals i scored or kids i schooled, but the number was definitely pushing fifty ....
-playing soccer against small town second graders can really do a number to your confidence
-Bry came my last day because the kids really wanted to meet him....he also brought out new little puppy Lola. The kids loved them both. When I went to introduce bry I realized that he should probably be referred to as mr. Krieger, which was beyond weird to call him that. But he and lola came out to recess with us...bry played soccer on the boys team, I on the girls, and Lola just spent most of her time chasing the ball and running away from all the crazy second graders trying to grab her. She was more then exhausted when they left.
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| We fit!! All 3 of us and our 8 weeks of luggage! |
-saying goodbye to the kids was harder then i thought. I got the class a new pencil sharpener (that had been an on going joke in the class) and i gave each kid some pencils with some erasers. I was swamped with hugs, and had many of them asking when i was coming back. So as of now, we have a schedule soccer rematch for sometime in may. The class also all wrote me letters, which were the kinda heart tickler notes that made you love being a teacher...they will be good for a bad day someday down the road I'm sure haha. One of the grandmothers of the kids made me place mats to remind me of Nebraska.....thank the lord however they were not husker ones!!!
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| Check out the church and school at http://www.school.stlukes-oviedo.org/ |
So now, many miles later,I find myself in Oviedo Florida at st. Luke lutheran church and school. I am teaching a class of 27 kids. The two other girls i was teaching with in Nebraska, molly and laura, are also here with me. We are staying at Peggys house. She is awesome, and her house is.....well check the pictures, spectacular. Technically she lives on an island, but we are not like out in the middle of the lake or anything. The entire back side of her house is pasted with windows that give you a clear view of the lake that is oh, about thirty feet from her house. It's beautiful, she has a jet ski, and a couple of kayaks....all of which we are hoping to use this weekend!!!! We could really not ask for a better place. There is nothing quite like waking up each morning to see a lake outside my window, and watching the sunrise every morning while eating bfast!!! The people here have been more friendly, and really have made our transition so easy. They have a young adult group here that have made sure we are staying busy. On the drive down to Florida us three girls made a list of things we want to do while we are here, it is over a page long and most things end with the words 'for free.' so we showed it to our new friends, and they have already started figuring ways in which we can accomplish everything.
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| On the dock |
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| Peggys house and island! |
A couple of other random things from the classroom....i have already started teaching and had my first observation today! It went well, I am currently teaching English and leading the daily devotions. By the third week of all this though, i should pretty much be teaching everything.....way different then student teaching one, but good practice i guess!!! I also started playing soccer with the fifth graders at recess, it's been way fun, and a great way to get to know the kids. I actually had some boys ask me today why i decided to teach over playng professional soccer, i told them that i just loved teaching soooooooo much and i didn't want to do anything else!!!! Speaking of soccer, i am also helping coach the 6-8th grade girls soccer team.......like i said ....they are keeping us busy!!!
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| Monday Morning Breakfast Sunrise |
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| Church Sunday |
Anyways, hopefully i will do a better job on keeping up on this so i don't type a another novel.Countdown to spring break....8 days.
Countdown till bry comes to visit......12 days!!!!!!!!!
