Our Adventures

This is the first night in a while where I have the time to just relax, not go anywhere or do anything, not plan any lessons and where I can do whatever I want. Since I haven't updated in quite a while I'll give you the down low of what's been going on around here. Last week we had a party at Carmen and Eric's because it was Carmen's Birthday and Dustin and Rebekah were out here visiting. We had lots of good treats and played a big round of Catch Phrase. You can't really tell from the pictures because she's wearing black and it's very slimming but Rebekah is 5 months pregnant. And I even think I know what's it's going to be but that's a secret...

Party People
Rebekah, Josh and Cassie Laughing at someone or something
Phil, Mackenzie, Dustin and Rebekah
Four on a Couch
The next series is what happens when I let my husband take pictures...




Some other things we've been up to is joining a small group in our church. We've started meeting with two other couples (who have 2 and 4 kids under the age of 5) and are going through the book of John. It's been really great to get together with them and to connect. Also, we're getting to know them better which is great because they're fun people. One of the guys actually graduated with me so that's kinda strange how that worked out.

Last sunday afternoon we headed to Mike and Sarah's for a pumpkin carving party. We also had to give their new Nintendo Wii a whirl, it's pretty tricky I must admit, especially baseball, I don't think I hit one pitch. We had a good time making some creative carvings, Chris decided to stick to his roots and make a Saskatchewan Roughriders logo, while I on the other hand had my work cut out for me with my spooky tree idea. I decided to scrape my pumpkin instead of carve pieces out of it. The end result would be a glow through the skin that I scraped away, leaving a sunset effect. It ended up working out but it took much longer than anyone else to carve their pumpkin. Maybe I won't try that again.

Let the carving begin
Sarah making her Calgary Flames logo
Taking out the guts
Intense carving time
...and I'm still scraping
The finished products
Boxing time
Our pumpkins
This week has been my busiest week of PDP by far. On monday I taught my first lesson, it was in spelling. That wasn't too bad. Yesterday I did some math on converting decimals to fractions, that was a little bit tougher. And today I did a lesson on a story that the students had to recreate using their own ideas. Today I got observed by my Faculty Associate, who is basically my professor for PDP. He said that the lesson was excellent and there were many good things that he had to say about it so I was happy with that. Besides teaching, I've been arranging when my next observations will be, thinking of an idea and time to do a mini-unit and writing my mid term which is on friday where I meet with my teacher and FA to talk about how I've been doing. So there's a lot to think about all at once but I think I've got it under control for now, which is why I can write this blog without stressing out.

So that's what we've been up to, busy but doing well and having fun, until the next time I have some free time...

Time for a new look, how do you like it? Things have been busy around these parts and will probably start to get busier. Last weekend we headed over to Megan and Laurie's for a big potluck/karaoke bash and there ended up being about 30 people there, it was crazy. We also played a rousing game of Catch Phrase with about 20 people, it made for one very loud game. It was a good time, thanks guys!

Jamie and Lauren getting really into it
Looking for new songs to sing
Chris singing with Nathan, the only other person who liked country songs
This past week I got sick and even skipped a day of school because of it so it hasn't been a regular week. We went curling on tuesday night because we were going to join a league with eric, carmen, mike and sarah but after we got our lesson and found out that it was triple the amount of money that we had been told to join we decided not to do it. That was sort of a let down but we had fun trying it out. On friday Chris' parents brought our car back home! Yes, we have finally got our car back after almost 2 months of torture waiting and waiting and waiting. They came on the perfect weekend, the sun was shining the whole time. On friday we went out for supper and watched IronMan. On saturday we went for a long walk by the river and watched the billions of fishermen/women that were out. That day Chris also got his early birthday present from his parents, a snowboarding helmet and a 158 piece ratchet set that was on sale for $150 off. We also got our alarm and horn fixed up because they weren't working on our car but now it's all good to go. That night we spent a good couple hours watching a baseball game only to have it cut off at 10pm for sportscentre and we didn't get to see who won. Chris and his dad were pretty upset, Chris even emailed them to complain. He hasn't got an email back. Sunday we had church and watched a lot of football and then went to my parents for a huge thanksgiving meal. Today the 'rents left for a road trip through the States that we mapped out for them. Hopefully they don't hit any deer.

Tonnes of people fishing along the Vedder River
Walking by the river
Chris recruited dad to mark his math tests
This week I'm in my first placement school. It's called Windebank Elementary and I'm in a Grade 6/7 class. It'll sort of be a weird week because we only go for two days to our placement school and observe and then I'm going to a kindergarten class in a different school on thursday and a high school on friday. Then the next week we're back with PDP for three days and then to our placement school for the end of that week. So we won't really get into much for another few weeks, these next few are just a mish-mash of things. I'm looking forward to actually getting in a class though. I hope it'll be a good experience. Well, I've got to watch more football so enjoy your Thanksgiving!