Update

There was an institute dance on Friday which I attended. It was a lot of fun...not the best institute dance held, but still a lot of fun. So I was dancing with this kid (maybe he's not a kid since he's a year older than me, but he still is 5 inches shorter) and I stepped on him and sort of rolled my ankle. It kills kills kills!

Also on Friday, I bought some purple shoes. I am wearing said purple shoes right now. They fit very nicely.

And, my hair is doing this weird flippy thing. See:



(I may or may not be in a bathroom as this picture was taken...)

Anyway, hope everyone is having a great day!

Why I am going to teach elementary school

I work at a high school where I help the Native American kids stay on track to graduate. Because more than half of the students are failing, sometimes I have to work up a little motivational push for them to do their assignments. I work with my dear roommate Rojita and somehow I got dubbed as the math tutor. I had mentioned that I can do Algebra I work and now I am the math genius? Let me remind everyone I have barely passed math the last 4 or 5 times I have taken it.

The other day, someone came in and I just couldn't help them. I told them to do the equation one way. They did it, but then I realized that was the wrong equation. I made them erase it. They wrote the other one and solved it. I told them they did it right. But when they went back to check it, they found they made a huge mistake and ended up having to do the whole problem over again. This followed with the next five problems. After that whole ordeal of frustration and "What are you talking about?", they told me they would just go in after school to ask their teacher for help. I think that it's for the best. I just got done helping another girl. I think in the end, we both just wanted to cry. She's coming back in tomorrow so I am taking a math book home to try to relearn it all. Maybe I will bring candy so it's not quite as painful. Could you imagine if I were to actually be a math teacher?

My whole class would cry.

Because I am desperately fishing for comments on my poor blog

The first five people to leave a comment on this blog will receive something made by me. However there are some limitations:

1. I make no guarantee that you will like what I make.
2. What I create will be just for you.
3. It will be done this year. (might take a while)
4. You have not clue what it is going to be, a photo, something I have craftily put together, or sewn. I may bake something and mail it you.
5. I reserve the right to do something extremely strange. It may blow your mind!

Here is the catch, if you choose to do this. You must post this on your blog and be ready to make something for five people too. This will be fun! When you receive the fabulous item I make you, you must post a picture of it on your blog. Because i am so awesome, my awesomeness MUST be spread about the bloggoshpere.

...I may even send out to Argentina or Spain...

Provo Provo Provo!

I am home! I am so excited to be here. I am very grateful it wasn't snowing when I drove back and that my car made it safe and sound and I am sooooo happy to see my family!

Can I vent for second?

I go to school not in Provo with people who aren't in Provo and many who aren't from Utah County. If I hear one more person give me a hard time about Provo... I have heard it all: "oh, you are from the promised land?", "ew, last time I drove through Provo I got so sick to my stomach!", "you're from Provo, well welcome to the real world sweetie", "hate to pop your UC bubble", or I this good one I heard the other day "maybe people from Utah county should just never leave, they all need to go to BYU and eat their jello together" (direct quotation). Seriously. I am very proud to be from Provo. I think it's a great place. Yes I know there is a bubble and that BYU kids can be semi-crazy, but really? Just because I had release-time seminary, I can walk to church, and almost all of my friends growing up were members of the church, doesn't make me a bad person or doesn't make the place I am from a bad place. 

So there.

Represent

Did you hear? The Grammys were on Sunday. Did you hear? Coldplay performed and were up for 7. (Watch This Personally, not a fan of the whole Jay-Z thing, but it was still good.) Did you hear? I kinda like Coldplay. I won't get into the whole Allison Krauss thing (yawn) but I did represent my boys by sporting my Coldplay t-shirt and Chris Martin bracelets.

They won 3 thank you very much.

On to more important things...
So I am totally teaching a kindergarten class. It's so much fun. Today was their Valentine's lesson and I get to teach them how to brush their teeth. We are going to make puppets and do a little song because we have to incorporate dance, music, visual arts, or drama to our lessons. I am very excited...a little overwhelmed, but still excited. I am going home this weekend (yay!) I haven't seen my family in like forever! SO happy. Anyway, that's about all that is going on.

I will try not to make my blog suck next time.

Did you miss me?

I am back! Yay! So a little clarification on this media fast for my few friends. The institute had a missionary week this week. On Monday there was a missionary lunch, Wednesday was dress like a missionary day, and they hid a "golden investigator" around campus and if you found him you got a prize. We also had a media fast. Obviously I know and the institute knows that missionaries use media, but they don't use facebook, myspace, blogging, American Idol, and Rhianna (or do they?). We basically gave up the unnecessary things like that to help us focus on the more important things...and I totally made it and guess what I accomplished this week? EVERYTHING!!!! There was dance last night to break the fast, which was super fun and I got super sweaty cause smarty here wore her hair down.
It was a good experience, but it is good to be back. I feel so out of the loop in the blogging world, so excuse me while I go stalk.

Here's a shout-out to the whole 2 people who read my blog:

Not that I blog a whole lot anyway, I am joining my other Cedar City institute friends in a missionary week media fast. No blogging or facebook for a week. Wish me luck with my endeavors and I will blog about it next week.

p.s. Go Steelers!