Dress and Do Your Best!

Well, as my roommate's boyfriend said as I stated I was teaching again, "welcome back to the work force!" In many ways I feel like I never had a vacation. I blinked and now I'm back at school. I really think this year will be pretty awesome. I will have my first experience being a mentor teacher. Yes, that's right I have finally entered the realm of my teaching career where I mentor the educators of the future. I think it is quite thrilling myself. We'll see how it goes, I have no idea what to expect or what to do besides teach her how to teach. I have decided to live by the same philosophy I have for my PE classes, "Dress and Do Your Best!" Most importantly, I'm "never fully dressed without a smile." Hehe. I am convinced from my observations that I teach at one of the best schools in the United States. My administrators are caring, supportive, and give the necessary freedom I need to create a student centered learning environment. Not to mention our faculty are pretty amazing and our students are awesome. I am happy to dress and do my best for myself and my school community! I challenge everyone to try "Dress and Do Your Best", try it for two weeks at least. If you find yourself, humming, smiling, and being more friendly to those around you I guarantee it is working. Let me know what happens!

Good Ol' Washington with a little Canada!

So, for the past two weeks I made my bi-annual trek to my home state of Washington. It was great to be with my family. As many of you know I am aspiring to make sewing a hobby, what be a trip home to the big city without fabric. The Seattle area is a fabric and sewing accessories gold mine. I wish I had the daily access to fabric stores as Seattleites do. I am sew, haha, excited to get sewing. Also, while in Seattle my family rode the Duck. Next, I head to Puyallup. I was able to visit and meet the new babies of the family Troy and Sebastian, they are so cute. I was also able to spend some time with my grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles. One of the highlights of my trip was visiting my brother, Tyler, and his fiance, Kim, in Olympia.





We went kayaking in Capital Lake and went to Red Robin for dinner; which end-up being free because our food ticket got lost. On Thursday Claudia, my stepmom, and I left on the Victoria Clipper for Victoria, Cananda. I got use my passport! We stayed at the Historic Fairmont Empress. At the hotel restaurant, we ate the best steak I have ever had. Friday, we visited the Historic Butchart Gardens. I have never seen a garden more diversely landscaped it was beautiful. Saturday we went to the Royal BC Museum. They had a touring exhibit entitled Treasures. The exhibit had the Lewis Chessmen that inspired the Wizards Chess pieces in Harry Potter and the Sorcer's Stone. It was a very eventful trip and it is always fun to be with my family.