I guess I am not very good at this...

Well, I suppose I am repeating myself .... but it has been a while...again.

Since my last post I have completed my student teaching. I was out in Winchester and although it was very small, I had a lot of fun. There are definitely some students I will not forget: Josey and arguing about impossible inverse functions; James asking me about cowboys vs my computer geek, man, I haven't seen that kid in a "coon's age!"; Kimberly and Jordan- PDA!; Corey and Morgan and their singing; Meredeth and her reminders to the rest of the class that fractions are our friends, and of course Mrs. Miller, or Candy... I have to get used to calling her by her first name now!!!! Those are just a few. I had a lot of fun with those kids (and my teacher) and will miss them all and wish all of them luck in all they do.

Student teaching couldn't have come to an end at a better time tough. Jon's dad, who was already struggling with Leukemia, took a turn for the worst the last few days of my student teaching. Jon came to town and they brought Dr. Fox to Jacksonville and so I was able to be there for Jon the whole time and not have to worry about planning lessons and the like. As unfortunate as it was, I was glad to be done teaching and able to be with Jon when his dad passed. It was hard on him, and everyone, and I was so thankful I was able to be at his side through all of it.

Shortly after all the events with the funeral concluded, I got to go back and visit Winchester. I had been invited, with the other teachers, to go their Junior/Senior Banquet and the Prom. It was a lot of fun. I never went to my prom in high school so it was fun to go to a prom, and it was a blast to watch all the kids having fun!

I spent a while packing and cleaning my apartment. Then- graduation weekend!! Thursday May 8th I was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa, Friday I took my parents to Winchester (and the 'zoo') and we loaded Jon's dad's desk into the trailer. Saturday we packed the rest of the stuff into the trailer and had graduation practice. Then, Sunday May 11 I graduated!!!! It was kind of stinky though because graduation was inside. It was the first time in like 20 years graduation had to be moved inside! Oh well, makes sense. I have had to sit through IC's graduation the last three years playing with the band and so of course when it is my turn to graduate it would not be outside!

Since graduation, I have been killing time at home. Applied for some summer jobs but nothing panned out. I'm still working on a full time teaching job for the fall. It will all work out I am sure. For now, I am counting down the days until I go to Colorado!!!