So it's been awhile since I have written. The first week of the school year was pretty stressful. I had a few parents breathing down my neck about homework and things that they wish I would do differently in class. It took a long time to find common ground with a few of the parents but as of now things are running a little bit more smoothly.

I love my students very much. Although I must say by the end of the day my kids have pushed me to my stress MAX. They love to see how far they can push me but in return I just give them more laps for P.E. I always tell them that by the end of the year their going to be the most fix kids in the whole school! But for some reason that doesn't really excite them all that much.

My kids are so sweet to me! They bring me mangos, cupcakes, and just today I got chocolate chip cookies! Some days I swear I would never become a teacher but then there are those days that I couldn’t imagine if I weren’t a teacher. Teaching definitely has its ups and downs. I mean I’m not saying that I only like teaching when I get things from my students but sometimes I feel like my students could care less if I was teaching them or not. But then there’s those days when a student will draw me a picture or write me a note telling me how much I mean to them and it helps reassure to me that I might be doing an ok job.

Well usually when I am not in school I am at the beach. On weekends that is pretty much where I live. I sleep at home and go to church and then I go straight to the Ocean. In some parts of the ocean its very shallow and so the water is so so warm. It’s sometimes as hot as a hot tub and I’m not exaggerating when I say that. There’s this one part in the ocean where you have to walk in knee high water about 3-4 football fields to get to the waves! The ocean here is sooo beautiful and pretty blue!!! We haven’t been able to snorkel but probably next week we will go to this island where there’s tons of fish.

Sharla, Holly and I are the volleyball coaches here at the school. There’s practices in the blazing heat every Monday, Wednesday and games are on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays. This Tuesday was our first game. It was very close but we lost. Fortunately on Wednesday it was a different story and they won! It was pretty exciting because I guess they usually don’t start winning their games until about 20 games into the season. After hearing that we were pretty excited our team was off to a real good start!

This weekend there is a drama group retreat and 3 of the girls in our class are sponsors so my roommate Sharla and I will have the house to ourselves for the weekend. It will be pretty quiet without the girls around so will have to find some fun things to do!