Graduation and other festivities!

Well it has been a whirlwind week/weekend! First off, I was still teaching and working for my last week of "college". Thankfully I am awesome enough (or lucky enough) to not have any finals! WAHOOO what a blessing or I think that would have put me over the top. But anyways, I still tried to make the best of my time and PARTY and live it up with some of my friends who were leaving. Part of the partying it up consisted of playing and hanging out with Bree's family. They were so loving and gracious and let a bunch of us hooligans come over and practically be apart of their family.

So Bree's dad works for Oakley and so his company let their family stay in their company house. Now these company houses are awesome! This is where the pro surfers who are sponsored by the particular brand stay during the surf season.The house is RIGHT on the beach and not just A beach but PIPE LINE. Kind of a big deal since there are three different surf competitions that take place there. Anyways this house was awesome and had a huge back porch that looked out over the beach and had surfer paraphernalia all over the house, including a Andy Irons signed jersey (he was an awesome surfer who died last year). Yeah and of course with surfers come surf boards... There were over 180 Surfboards in the house! HOLY SURFBOARDS! (I have pictures but those will have to be posted later.)
Company House: House on the left is Target, house on the right is the house we played in, just to the right of it was the Nike house but you cant see it in this picture. AWESOME RIGHT?



Like I said the Master's were wonderful and had a big BBQ and so we got to eat out kababs on the poarch while watching a BEAUTIFUL sunset!

All of us hooligans!




The next day, Saturday, was GRADUATION! wahoo! So, I have pleanty of pictures and I am going to let those do most of the talking with a few explanations and captions! enjoy!

Waiting to be lined up and posing with my girls!


Shaking Prs. Wheelright's hand and getting my "diploma"

Its hard to see but I am totally throwing up a double rock on sign as I begin my walk across the stage! "WAHOO I was DONE!" was all that was running through my head. well that and "DON'T TRIP!"

So the tradition after graduating in Hawaii is getting Lei's from all your friends and family. So all my friends and adopted families took care of me and so the pictures below are from those after hours of craziness trying to find everyone.

"Tan Man" Bree's little 7yr old brother who was the life of the party and who now has a couple 20 something year olds phone numbers and texts us :)

Some of me and my good friends that were able to make it to graduation.


One of my Hawaiian families!


Me and some other good friends and roommates


The classic "my mother would shoot me if i didn't get these kinds of pictures" pictures.




Unfortunately though I am not OFFICIALLY done yet. I still have 5 more weeks of my student teaching. But I am going to try and enjoy that and focus on that so I don't get sad and lonely about the fact that SO many of my friends are leaving and I don't know when the next time I will see them will be :( Thank goodness for modern technology though so we can at least keep in contact!

Forgot

the picture was supposed to go with the last post. see even my pizza man (hes actually a good friend of mine BEFORE he started working there, no I am not a fatty who orders that much pizza) gets in on the fun.

Ehh Miss

So when a lot of my friends find out that I am student teaching at a high school with freshman I often get the ever so common"Ehh miss" to the extent where I will now walk down the halls of BYUH and my friends even refer to me as "ehh miss". Well it doesn't stop there. They never simply refer to me as ehh miss but also include things like, "you like go movies after class," or the ever so common "you like go get spam musubi" (if you don't know what that is click here). Well in all fun I would go with it and just laugh at my friends being dumb...

Until........

today while I was teaching a student walked in to say hi and just see whats up (which is perfectly normal for this student) and then he proceeded to ask, "eh miss, do you have a boyfriend" my response "no why? (thinking he was asking for get to know you purposes or just in case his older brother was interested or something) well that was not the case, and since I became so flustered I cannot remember his exact response but it contains these essential parts.

• him ASKING me to go to the movies with HIM
  
• Him telling me "he has game"
• another boy who was taking his test in the corner piping in and saying how he wants to take me out too.
• Them both being dead serious about this, neither said any sort of just kidding or naw after.
  

Which was then followed by me freaking out trying to act busy and not look at them while repeating the phrase "I'm too old for you, I'm too old for you" because I could think of nothing better while trying, not quite succeeding, in holding back a laugh.

Yeah that day came when I was asked out by a student, and not just one mind you! They are 14 years old MAYBE 15. AHHHHH

I had to share this hilarious moment because it still makes me chuckle! More great stories to come!