I'm officially done with student teaching!!!!!!!! Woooohoooooo!
Holly P's family is in town and it's her sister's birthday so we are making dinner tonight. It smells delicious and I'm pretty excited. We have been working on getting everything ready for our hoedown party tomorrow all week. I still need boots and a hat so I should probably get on that. Tami dropped off some bales of hay just now and they are in the backyard. We are really pulling out all the stops with this one. We're gonna have some food, including pigs in a blanket and lots of drinks. I even popped a hole in a watermelon and stuck a bottle of vodka in it. It's been three days and it's almost empty, ha ha. Should be a lot of fun!
So I posted on facebook that I will be looking for a new place to live soon. A couple people responded, one of which was my cousin, Alisha. She just bought a house with her fiance and they said I could rent out the extra room. I think that this will probably be my best choice. I'm going to go check out their house and everything later this week. It's just exciting to have some options and maybe know what I'm going to be doing for the next six months.
I'm bent on learning the guitar. I borrowed one of my brother's and went and got it re-stringed. I've started playing around with some videos on youtube to learn a thing or two but I really want to take lessons. My brother Jake said he was interested too so when he gets back from Ireland in a week I'll have to bug him about it.
I leave you with this: Never take life seriously. Nobody gets out alive anyway - Anon
Friday, June 10, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
Only two days of working out
and I feel like I've been run over by a truck. I didn't think I was in that bad of shape but boy was I wrong! Holly P's been pushing me and it's amazing. I just have no self-motivation (which I definitely need to work on) and I'm glad she's been getting me to get up and challenge myself. On the note of amazing roomies, Katie made me a period mix (watch No Strings Attached. Hilarious.) which includes:
Speaking of moving out, I have no idea what I'm going to do with my life for the next 7 months. As of now I am scheduled to leave in February for the Peace Corps, which may or may not change, but if it were to change it would more likely be moved back than forward. Which means if I were to sign a lease somewhere I could only do a 6 month lease. I've contemplated moving back home but I'm not sure I could do that for 7 months. I'd like to find a place for 6 months and then after that I'll stay at home until I leave. However, I don't know where to live or what to do while I'm waiting to maybe leave for the Peace Corps. I could live in Reno and keep subbing and working at Jimmy Beans or I could live in Fallon and sub there. Living in Reno would be good because I could continue to work at Jimmy Beans and still hang out with all my friends all the time without making the trip. Living in Fallon would most likely be cheaper though and I would be closer to my family. Also, I would get paid more to sub in Fallon than Reno. I have applied to sub in Fallon already so even if I stay in Reno, I can always go down to Fallon for a bit to hang out and sub. What it really comes down to is how much money I want to spend on rent. I would prefer not to pay anything, but like I said that puts me in my dad's house and I'm not sure I want to do that for that long. I guess I'll just keep my eyes open for cheap places. I don't really want to live alone, however it's not very fair to ask someone to live with me when I can only commit to 6 months. Hmmm, well I guess I'll just have to stay open minded and see where life takes me.
As for a Peace Corps update, I am currently working on getting all of my medical and dental paperwork done. My goal is to have everything done and sent by the end of June. I just hope this works with my doctors. I have heard that it takes about 5 months for all of the medical paperwork to get processed so that puts me about about November when I might be receiving my final invitation (as long as everything goes smoothly, fingers crossed!). When I first started this whole process, the most difficult thing was deciding if I really did want to commit to it. Now that I have decided this is what I want to do, the hard this is just waiting. The reason I'm so flustered about what I am going to do with my life now is that I don't want to just be waiting around, wondering when my life will begin. I've been hearing from friends from school how they have gotten teaching jobs or are going to all sorts of interviews. I know that what I am doing is a big thing too and I'm very excited about it, it's just going to take a bit longer to get started and in the meanwhile I feel like I'm getting left behind. I'd like to find something that I can do that makes me happy and will keep me busy before I go off to the Peace Corps, rather than just sitting around waiting for it. I've taken a few steps towards this; I'm going to be a camp counselor for Camp Lotsafun again this summer and I've also applied to tutor ESL Adults as a volunteer. I have been thinking that volunteering for more things may be what I could do to make me feel more useful with my life. I might look into big brother big sister, or the adaptive recreation program. But first I need to decide where I'm going to live. Bleh. I wish I was better at making decisions. I stress so much but usually when I finally decide, I feel immensely better. When I was thinking about the Peace Corps, I initially decided not to do it. But I knew that I let others sway my decision and it just didn't feel right. When I finally made the decision for me, I felt much better.
I really should write more often. Just writing all this down and thinking through it is already making me feel better. Well, the weather is decent so I'm gonna go take advantage of it!
P.S. Only two more days of student teaching and then I'm done FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!
- Waterfalls - TLC
- Red Rain - Peter Gabriel
- Red Tide - Neko Case
- Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
- Muddy Water - Daniel Jenkins
- I Love You, Period - Dan Baird
- Sunday, Bloody Sunday - U2
- Even Flow - Pearl Jam
- Just a Girl - No Doubt
- Red, Red Wine - UB40
- Red, Red Rose - The Weepies
- Bleeding Love - Leona Lewis
- Time to Flow - D-Nice
- Here Comes the Flood - Peter Gabriel
- Here Comes the Rain Again - Eurythmics
- I've Got the World on a String - Frank Sinatra
- Why Does it Always Rain on Me - Travis
- Tide is High - Blondie
Speaking of moving out, I have no idea what I'm going to do with my life for the next 7 months. As of now I am scheduled to leave in February for the Peace Corps, which may or may not change, but if it were to change it would more likely be moved back than forward. Which means if I were to sign a lease somewhere I could only do a 6 month lease. I've contemplated moving back home but I'm not sure I could do that for 7 months. I'd like to find a place for 6 months and then after that I'll stay at home until I leave. However, I don't know where to live or what to do while I'm waiting to maybe leave for the Peace Corps. I could live in Reno and keep subbing and working at Jimmy Beans or I could live in Fallon and sub there. Living in Reno would be good because I could continue to work at Jimmy Beans and still hang out with all my friends all the time without making the trip. Living in Fallon would most likely be cheaper though and I would be closer to my family. Also, I would get paid more to sub in Fallon than Reno. I have applied to sub in Fallon already so even if I stay in Reno, I can always go down to Fallon for a bit to hang out and sub. What it really comes down to is how much money I want to spend on rent. I would prefer not to pay anything, but like I said that puts me in my dad's house and I'm not sure I want to do that for that long. I guess I'll just keep my eyes open for cheap places. I don't really want to live alone, however it's not very fair to ask someone to live with me when I can only commit to 6 months. Hmmm, well I guess I'll just have to stay open minded and see where life takes me.
As for a Peace Corps update, I am currently working on getting all of my medical and dental paperwork done. My goal is to have everything done and sent by the end of June. I just hope this works with my doctors. I have heard that it takes about 5 months for all of the medical paperwork to get processed so that puts me about about November when I might be receiving my final invitation (as long as everything goes smoothly, fingers crossed!). When I first started this whole process, the most difficult thing was deciding if I really did want to commit to it. Now that I have decided this is what I want to do, the hard this is just waiting. The reason I'm so flustered about what I am going to do with my life now is that I don't want to just be waiting around, wondering when my life will begin. I've been hearing from friends from school how they have gotten teaching jobs or are going to all sorts of interviews. I know that what I am doing is a big thing too and I'm very excited about it, it's just going to take a bit longer to get started and in the meanwhile I feel like I'm getting left behind. I'd like to find something that I can do that makes me happy and will keep me busy before I go off to the Peace Corps, rather than just sitting around waiting for it. I've taken a few steps towards this; I'm going to be a camp counselor for Camp Lotsafun again this summer and I've also applied to tutor ESL Adults as a volunteer. I have been thinking that volunteering for more things may be what I could do to make me feel more useful with my life. I might look into big brother big sister, or the adaptive recreation program. But first I need to decide where I'm going to live. Bleh. I wish I was better at making decisions. I stress so much but usually when I finally decide, I feel immensely better. When I was thinking about the Peace Corps, I initially decided not to do it. But I knew that I let others sway my decision and it just didn't feel right. When I finally made the decision for me, I felt much better.
I really should write more often. Just writing all this down and thinking through it is already making me feel better. Well, the weather is decent so I'm gonna go take advantage of it!
P.S. Only two more days of student teaching and then I'm done FOREVER!!!!!!!!!!
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