New found Treasures

 Well hear I am at school living with three other girls. But I guess I got the room mate jackpot because I ended up with some really good roommates. The only flaws that have presented themselves so far have been: mac and cheese with out butter (Not as good dont try it) a new found addiction to a book thus sucking the life right out of me, and lack of internet in my apartment. The last one has been the worst. Some how the internet manages to connect us to the entire world! In one instant you feel shut out, its terrible. I also realized from this I have a facebook addiction that I now need to try and get over. All in all school is going well.

New School New School Year

Well here it is again a brand new school year. This year I find myself on a new adventure that is going to a new school. I started off at BYU Idaho last year and I loved it. But everyone needs a change sometime so I came home in the winter and found myself contemplating if I was going to go back. Next thing I knew I was enrolled in classes at Utah State. I already feel the funny nervous, excited new school feeling. You know the way you felt when you were finally going to high school, your pumped, and then it hits you this school is bigger than junior high, the kids are older here, and no one cares who you are. Its that feeling all over again but times 10, because now I come home and there is no mom to make me magically feel better. Just girls that I don't know yet. Why must we go to school? The pioneers handled themselves just fine with a 6th grade education! Curse the day everyone decided that we needed to be smarter. 

The Art of 7 year olds

I have recently come into the care of 6 seven year olds. Yes my friends I am a CTR 7 teacher. These children have become the best part of my week. Every week is a new adventure, one never knows what you will come up against. One such adventure left me questioning as to the quality of my teaching. One of my little girls was sitting on the window sill and the other one was sitting somewhat quietly in her chair. As the reverent one let out a loud sigh followed quickly by her sisters response "she hates church" I tried to laugh it off and say "she does not hate church" in which my reverent one said "no I hate church its too long." It was in that small moment that I stopped to question my career path of becoming a teacher. If a small child is beginning to hate church because of my teaching skills I cannot imagine how hundreds of adolescents might feel at my so called "skills." 

However with the not so good always comes the great. Like a much needed hug, or the cutest valentines card made just for you, or being told how much they will miss you because they are going out of town for a week. I guess it just leaves me with a bias that my 7 year old class is the greatest class you could have.  

New Friends New Faces

I decided there is nothing more uncomfortable than sitting around a table with a group full of people and only knowing one of them. You love the person you are with but the other people you just dont know. As they talk about recent times you can only talk of past times. Any story you may have to say they find uninteresting and even more unfunny. And with every story they find just one more problem with you. The feeling of having ten people judging you at one time is enough to give you nightmares. Why do people subject themselves to such uncomfortableness? What is it in our nature that seems to thrive on the awkwardness of new faces? I wish I had the answer to those questions but they seem to elude me.