so it's been a super long time since i've posted
i have been so busy with school, that i just wanted to relax during the break between semesters,
and now that i am back in school again i have been whipped right back into the busyness.
so for a super short recap of the last 4 months...
michio and i are both a year older.
our birthdays are like 11 days apart.
i turned 24 and he turned 34.
no big parties for us to celebrate.
michio started his new job for Cal Trans (California Transportation) where he on the striping crew.
(not to be confused with stripping crew)
they are the guys that are in the street painting the lines and arrows on the asphalt.
he is also part of a crew that has to go out of town when it snows in the tahoe area.
so for the past couple months he has been gone for weeks at a time.
he works the night shift, from 8pm-8am,
checking peoples tires as they go through the snow.
although it sucks to be away from him for several days in a row,
he does get a lot of over time,
and also gets $50 a day for food (which he saves cuz he brings his own food).
I have still been enjoying my credential program at sac state to become an art teacher.
we have been spending most of our extra time hanging out with family.
michio has been really supportive of his nephews.
2 weeks ago they finished off their rugby season, and the very next week they started baseball.
michio has been working even harder with the boys for baseball.
he goes over to their house pretty much everyday.
and it just so happens that michio's brother in law had some netting from an old golf course,
so they built their very own batting cage in their backyard!!!
who does that ?!!?!?
not gonna lie. .. i make michio pitch me a bucket every time we go over, i can't resist!!!!
in more recent news...
michio just took a test this past saturday for another state job
it is in the Department of Water Resources.
he said that he'll spend the rest of his life trying to get this job...
and you won't be surprised once you hear the reasons why:
-they get to go fishing for work
(isn't that enough right there to tell you why he wants to work there?)
-they catch fish and tag them
-sometimes they work at boat launches
-some of the crew even gets to work at fish hatcheries
-they are outside the majority of the time
-they work a lot with their hands
michio is totally not the office kind of guy
he would love to go to work everyday if he got the job.
not to mention, they start out making almost $2,000 more a month then he makes right now,
and who can complain about that?
we should be finding out in a couple weeks if he passed the written exam.
if he passes (which he is pretty confident he passed)
then we should be hearing shortly after about an interview
we are crossing our fingers!!!
as for me, I am only 8 short weeks away from graduation !!!
the high school I am student teaching at has been such a great experience for me.
the students there are extremely opinionated and are not afraid to speak their mind.
so it has really pushed me to come out of my shell and put the smack down on them. .. hahha
but no really, they are some tough kids!
they all come from such a low income area, that the whole school gets free breakfast and lunch.
i deal with a lot of kids that are in foster care, who don't speak english very well, who are bipolar, who have behavioral issues, who have special needs, who are in gangs or involved with drugs, and the list goes on.
but i love it!
I even got my own class about 3 weeks ago.
I teach my very own drawing and painting class where I give all instructions, do the grading, write the bathroom passes, take roll, and all that jazz.
I have about 30 students, compiled of mostly juniors and seniors,
but there are a few freshman and sophomores sprinkled in.
they are mine until the end of the school year =]
i am also highly involved with the ceramic class on campus.
I am helping orchestrate a project with another program at the school called Health Corps.
they have a representative that holds events on campus to encourage healthy eating.
we are working on a project to decorate a pillar in the cafeteria by making forms out of ceramics and displaying them all around the pillar.
it is a "field to fork" theme,
kind explaining through visual experience how we grow food in the field, and harvest crops, and farm animals,
and how they can all develop into a healthy meal.
I am also in the middle of working on a huge project for school called PACT.
Performance Assessment for California Teachers.
we have to film ourselves and write almost a 50 page paper (single spaced =/
we turn it in in the middle of april, and it is basically what determines if we get our teaching credential or not,
so no big deal.
i am sOo excited for summer!!!
i can't wait to get this school stuff over with!
hopefully i will be able to find a job for the next upcoming school year...
and i wanna have a graduation party!!!
if someone wants to throw me one that would be great! haha
so our plans for summer is to relax a lot, fish a lot, go on vacations, camping trips, have people come visit,
anddd . ..
michio wants to move!
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