Hey there stranger

Apparently I cannot juggle working and going to school and life well enough to tend to the blog since it's been over a month! Oh well, I'll have a bit of a break now that my first semester of certification is done and I really did enjoy it despite an occasional grumble. I made A's in both my classes (woo hoo!) and will have one more semester before I get out there and find an internship. One of our final lessons was "teaching" our colleagues as they pretended to be students of the assigned age group. I taught with two other ladies and we taught Spanish, Social Studies, and Math to second graders. Our lesson went very smoothly and we received really great observations.

Work has gotten busy now that Christmas is nearing, so I've been getting lots of hours which equals lots of money, ha ha. I'm not even sure if I'll be able to get home for Christmas with this rigorous retail scheduling, but here's hoping.

To celebrate the season we are engaged in a strenuous battle of the Christmas decorations with our neighbor. First place receives $100 off of next month's rent, and we are currently losing. AND they won last year, but the neighbors just keep adding MORE stuff!! In all seriousness though, we do adore our neighbors, they're super sweet, we just really want to get some cheaper rent. We can't beat them in quantity so we're going for style. So far this is what we have:And of course we bought a few more things today. This is the competition as of a few days ago and there has been even more added since this: