How you know your students listen...

So yesterday we had the opportunity to take our freshmen to Pearl Harbor to go see the USS Arizona and board and tour the USS Missouri. This was an awesome opportunity to go and do this and it went with only a few minor flaws... however as the the title of this suggests how do you know your students listen. Well in preparation for this field trip we had a lot of information to give the students with one of the most important being BRING A Lunch... so me being a little bit of a joker (surprising i know) also announced that they should bring me lunch too. And this is how you know your students listen... SOMEONE (who's name will remain anonymous due to FERPA stuff) actually brought me a lunch. He brought me a baby Lunchables! yes! score... so now this makes me think of what I said about a fundraiser the school is doing with roses on valentines day. Yet again while announcing this i said they should buy me a rose. So if there is a another post that is titled How do you know your students love you, undoubtedly it will be a good one! I will also most likely include the stories of the student who wants to marry me and the one that always gives me hugs (well tries to at least)... Until then!

Got a Job... well another one at least

As if im not doing enough already, I am now officially a nanny for a little 4 yr old who has ADHD. I get to go play with him and occasionally his siblings (5mo. and 12yrs) every saturday starting in March with a couple visits in Feburary as well. Im am so excited to work with this family and enjoy playing with one very energetic and cute little boy. Im sure I will be posting a lot of cool things we do, but if you have any suggestions feel free to leave a comment with your ideas.

AND anyone who is coming to Hawaii, specifically the island of Oahu, if you know me personally call me up and I can babysit for you. OR you can check out the website for Nannies Hawaii by clicking here and get a hold of Kim so she can help you out and find you a nanny! She is great and will help take care of you and all your child care needs.

I had to give my shout-out because I am so grateful for Kim and all that she does and what this job gives me: Reall mommy practice and I get paid for it! Double Win.

Students say the darndest things!

I'm sure these posts will be happening often so to start off the many this one happened yesterday Monday 1/9/2012.
Man oh man this one has brought me quite a few laughs!


Student: Ms, do you have kids?
Me: No
Student: Do you wanna get pregnant?
Me: ughh what? (im sure at this point I had a priceless look on my face showing a mixture of "are you seriously asking this question" and "what are you thinking" with a hint of "EWW your like 13 MAYBE 14" included).
Student: (while doing a hand gesture to symbolize birth) I mean it like hurts when you have the baby, so do you still wanna have kids?
Me: yes i do.



Today's (1/10/2012) treasure was in a vocab test. They had to write a sentence with the vocab word, that gives context clues to what it means.
"The ninjas prevailed over the townspeople"
haha yeah this one made me laugh. Yeah my awesome students talk about NINJAS!


And one last funny for the day.
Today while I was reading the announcements for the day I was announcing a sports event that was taking place at a neighboring school called "Kaimuki". Well being me, I was going along and just said the town name how I was pretty dang sure it was pronounced. Well my extrovert of a student then decided to correct me and say, "ms. its pronounced Ka-i-moo-key." To which I gave a typical Grandpa Follett answer: (while pointing to the underside of my forearm,aka the whitest part of me that is decent for others to view) I asked him if he could see this. With a quizzical look on his face he asked "what" and so my retort (another vocab word this week) was IM WHITE! I'm doing the best i can. yeah i got a few laughs for this one! and im my defence his correction did not sound much different from what I said.

A week of bad news:

Well this week has been great but riddled with bad news throughout it as well. First: i got my letter back about my ticket (background: i got a speeding ticket the weekend i was celebrating my birthday, yup clear back in October, and i wrote a letter to see if i could get any good graces and have the ticket lowered or even not have to pay it at all) well none of the above happened they just informed me that i have 90 days to pay the full amount of $162. That's money that a poor college student doesn't have. Second: this is my last semester to get a GPA and i was trying to keep my 3.5 that i currently had... well i checked my grades today and i now have a 3.489 with no hopes of raising it even though i have a semester + worth of work i have to finish. Yippy. Third: i was supposed to find out today if i got a $1000 scholarship... but haven't heard anything about it yet. :( The silver lining: No news it better than bad news so i will keep hoping for now. (key word: for now).

Now that i have vented:

Tis the season to remember what life is really all about and about the birth of our Savior and all he does for us. I am also so very grateful that I get to spend time this Christmas with my family in Texas. Yup now that it has almost been a year and a half i get to see my sisters Collette and Joy and i get to see my parents as well. Also i am surrounded by the laughter of my little man, Jayden, get to meet baby Asher, as well as enjoy my brother and sister-in-laws company!

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!

Truck Truck LIVES!!!

Yep she is all fixed and running great again. I am so happy to have my wheels back!

A frog in the classroom

You see a lot of wild animals all around in Hawaii. I have seen roosters and chickens in the hale (dorm) courtyards, in the halls of the university, and yes... walking across the roads as well. Also we get lovely geckos that randomly show up on your windshield while you are driving down the middle of the road. Like this little guy... (true story that has happened like 3 times now!)

Well today while i was at my high school a frog decided to join the random wild animal in the wrong place festivities. But he did not join on his own accord. Of course a kid in the class who was coming back from the restroom herded the frog into the classroom to make a scene and proceeded to tell the teacher in his most innocent voice that "a frog came in the classroom". So the teacher came over as well as another boy who was going to do something with his slipper (flip flop) to the frog. Knowing that he herded it in there i did not want to give the boy the satisfaction of making a huge scene. So to create this less dramatic scene i walked over and pick up the frog to take it outside. no big deal right. WRONG! This got a big "EEWWW" from the students while i repeatedly said "its just a frog!" After the class was adamant that i went and washed my hands. This entire episode essentially resulted in me doing the complete opposite of my goal and I made a scene. And so I give my congratulations to the freshman kid who got exactly what he wanted from the frogs visit. Some apparently much needed attention and distraction from his education. Next time though....i will not be fooled again!

Fool me once... shame on you. Fool me twice...shame on me!

going back to high school

Well i guess that i have done something wrong because i am now back in a freshman high school class twice a week. Ok so Im not a student but i am starting my O&P and student teaching. Yup i am starting my O&P and now am working with a freshman class. Thankfully i have yet to be hit on but the key word is YET... i am sure i will share these precious gems of stories.

Yesterdays great comment:

Girl: are you a new TA?

Me: no, i am a student teacher

Girl: oh so that means your in college?

Me: yeah

Girl: you look young for a college student

Me: Thanks?!?!?

Lessons and observations so far:

1. Age: it will be interesting and the goal is to not let anyone figure out my age

2. Its going to be a long semester but it should be fun!

Here is to going back to high school...

Lesson Learned

REGULARLY CHECK AND CHANGE YOUR OIL!

yep this is one of those hard on your pockets lessons in life. Since i bought my truck i have not checked or changed the oil. BIG mistake. so on Monday a friend was using my car to take his boat out. On the way home it sputtered like it was out of gas and DIED! not only did it die, but it died 200 yards from my house in a place where i could see it while sitting on my love seat. it was taunting me and laughing in my face. This happened on Monday and it sat on the side of the road until Wednesday morning. The reason it sat there... because i magically thought that if it stayed there it would start and i could drive it home. did that happen.. nope :( so i had to have two of my guy friends run the car home. and by run i mean push and run at the same time because we were pushing it down the Hwy. (its only a 35mph hwy). but we got enough speed to go over a curb so that i could park the car in our parking lot of broken cars. (Out of the 6 cars in our drive way only 2 are currently running. ( Cameron would be in heaven here)). So now i am trying to figure out the most cost effective way to fix her; I'm crossing my fingers that she is fixable and not going to break my little non-existent bank. So until further notice i am using a friends car until Sunday and who knows how I'm going to get to my student teaching, that i bought the car for, on Tuesday... stressing much... YEP! but i am trying to be optimistic and there is always the bus... oh joy! lessons in life teach us so much. Now i pledge to ALWAYS change my oil regularly!

Warts:

I have had some warts on one of my ankles and today i had the joy of getting them frozen off. Yeah i was terrified. I knew sort of what to expect but that did not make my anxiety about it any better. What i learned form this experience: getting them frozen off hurts and they don't just fall off right after they have to scab over and then fall off a couple days later so my hopes of having sexy, wart free legs again was a bust and now i am required to have more patience. Also what i have learned from today's wart extravaganza is that you never realize how much you use or touch a certain part of your body until there is pain or discomfort there. Since i have gotten this done mere hours ago i have already hit one of them and made it bleed and have bumped them many other times as well. NO FUN!
Why am i telling you this? It was a traumatic experience that i was freaking out about but had to suck it up and face it. That's life for ya.

It's Back!

MY CAMERA!!!!!
yep thats right the camera is back which means there there will no longer be anymore photo-less posts! yippy! so to kick off this camera extravaganza here is my photo scavenger hunt triple date.

The Story/Plan:

Cami, Kelly and I (aka me and my roommates) decided to all ask some guy friends out on a fun date. so we planned the date and decided to do a scavenger hunt from Laie to Kaneohe (its about a 40 min drive). Each of us and our dates would be in separate cars and we would have a list to take pictures of. A special shout out goes to Kylie and Ariel for making the scavenger hunt for us. since we are so competitive we had them make it so we wouldnt know what was on the list and try and plan things out. hahah yeah we are that competitive. so we picked up our dates at 5:30 and had to be at Bostons pizza by 7:00 (cell phone time, so our times were synchronized).

My Date:

Chris Ivie from Boston.

The List:

Putting Flowers on a Grave

The Word Aloha

A double whammy: An interesting car (for those who don't know: that's my roommates incredibly beat up and run down truck) and the male date in a skirt.

Another Double Whammy: A random Asian giving the peace sign and some Mormon missionaries.

Jumping and Doing a 360 at a red light
Walking through a Drive Through


A Sunset (it was cloudy so we had to make due).
A homeless man (the guy in the hat in the back)

With mustaches


The female date with a button up shirt and tie on

A Porta-Potty


A pyramid... we had to be creative so the mannequin is our third person!

someone with longer hair that you or your dates: her hair is in a ponytail so it is longer than mine.
A stranger with Facial Hair: the guy in the background has some

By a road sign. and yes this is an actual and real Stop Sign... just blue


COWS!
A door knob

A tourist in Hawaiian Apparel (this one didn't count :( )

one of us being a street performer asking for money. I was doing the little teapot song.

Giving a worker at Hot Dog on a Stick a high-5

The man picking out a wedding ring. hahahha


Things we missed on the list:
A pregnant woman
Holding a live baby
and a smashed toad.

The Results:

We lost by one to Cami and her date Matt. :( Kelly and her date, Christian, took last place gracefully because they were the least competitive of the group....

Dinner:

we went and had pizza at a place called boston's pizza which was really good and just shared our stories and pictures while laughing and trying to eat pizza. Yeah we didnt quite think this part thorugh very well because im sure we were not impressing our dates with pizza faces, full mouths and laughing. But oh well.

The Afterwards:

we decided to run to Jamba Juice for desert where we found a group of people outside in the courtyard area having a bible study lesson thing... so being the ambitious and daring person i am i dared the other people in my group, since 4 out of the 6 of us were returned missionaries, to go up and talk to them about the gospel. So we went outside and the boys went up and started talking to them and they invited us to sit in with them and listen..... the listening part was a little blurred because we wanted to teach them too so we started offering other biblical scriptures and putting in our two cents. Everything was fine until someone (not my date) decided to give a Book of Mormon scripture and that didn't go over too well. after that it was a lot more listening. But it was another introduction the the church so maybe we were helping them in the future.

OVERALL:

It was a great date and we had a blast and are now going to plan more of these roommate dates more often.