Lesson Plan...Whoop!!

Hey!! I am so excited!! I just finished writing my first lesson plan that I will actually be able to use once I graduate!! Whoop!! I mean this is the real thing; it has standards and everything! I feel so accomplished right now. I am so proud of myself. I can do this. I can be a teacher!! Yea!! Let me just say WHOOP and GIG EM AGGIES!! Night!!

One year...

One year ago today, I woke up at 5:30, quickly dressed and drove to the airport with my parents. I got on the plane, excited that, at the age of 20, I was flying for the first time. I was excited about the week I would be away from school, the week I would have a break. I got to have a vacation/happy 20th birthday trip. Little did I realize over the 3 hours and 45 minutes that I was on that plane, that my life was about to change. I got on the plane with the mindset that I would never want to live anywhere but the Dallas metroplex....When I got back on the plane a week later, all I could think was I want to live here...in Boston. It was amazing...From the moment I stepped off the plane in Logan, I felt completely at home, relaxed, comfortable. Walking around town I was at home...I was a tourist, but I didn't so much feel like one. I felt like I had some time off at home. Like I had a few days off of work...It was amazing. I can't tell you how many times I said to myself, as I walked around alone, i can see me living here...It was so me. So I must say, that I am sad that it has been an entire year since my trip, but at the same time I am not sad b/c I am one year closer to living there. I am one year closer to being back there again, before I move there. It makes me sad that when I am there again more than a year will have passed since I was there last. It is almost like being away from family for a whole year....

Have an amazing night...Sweet dreams...I know I will be dreaming about Boston...

Fall has come!!

Fall is here!! Yesterday was the quientessential fall day. I am talking fall in BOSTON day!!!! There was a perfect breeze it was cool and overcast...Basically it was completely amazing. One year ago tomorrow I was up early getting on a plane and flying to Boston. I never would have guessed how much that trip would change my plans for my future...I must say, I am in love...can you be in love with a place? I don't know, but I am. Whoop for Boston and fall!!! I can't wait to get there. :)

Roommate complaints...

Complaints I am lodging against my roommate:

• She is eating my food (without asking or bothering to letting me know)
  
• She is drinking my bottled water (again without asking or letting me know)
  
• She is coming in my room and borrowing what she pleases when I am not here (without asking)
  
• She is always giving me way more information that I care to have
  
• She asked me for money....which is completely unacceptable.....
  
• She can never turn anything off...the coffee maker, the tv, all the lights in the house....because of this, our electric bill was 300 dollars this month....
  
• When she borrows (without asking) my dvds, she doesn't hesitate to open the ones that even I haven't watched (the ones still wrapped in plastic)....
  
• Her stupid cat has fleas
  
• She feeds her stupid cat tuna and it smells up the WHOLE house and then she just leaves it sitting out for days...so disgusting....
  
• She expected me to pay for utilities that she incured before I moved in....I won that one....
  
• She walks around naked and seems to find it impossible to shut her door when changing...
  
• When I first moved in and her boyfriend came over, she "banished" me to my room....
  
• I have no room in the panty or the refrigerator or the freezer...apparently since she lived here a year before I moved in, I am not entitled to any space for food storage, but she, however, is more than welcome to my food....
  
• She ALWAYS has laundry in the washer, dryer, and on top of both...and I do mean at ALL
  times.... therefore doing laundry is a total insanity...
  
• She recently spilled BRIGHT PINK nail polish on our white carpet and doesn't care to try and clean it....so we now have hideous bright pink carpet...
  
• She thinks that personal maintance, such as buffing her heels and scraping the bottoms of her feet in the middle of our living room carpet is perfectly acceptable...
  
  That is all for now....

Favorite Quotes

"Aww Man" (with hanging head) - Jace upon being told he would have to leave the center if he couldn't keep his inside voice.

"potato head doesn't eat you."
-monica in reference to one of the kids trying to eat mr. potato head pieces...

"now, sir, are you animal, vegetable, or mineral?" - the magician's nephew

"hold on, let me think of something funny!!" - beth

"I think I'd miss you even if we'd never met." Dermot Mulroney in the Wedding Date

" I could more easily forgive his pride if he had not wounded mine." Elizabeth Bennet from the movie

Me: "Who's Cameron are you?"
Cameron: "Manda's Cameron! :) "

Cameron (imitating me) again: "Wash, wash, wash"
and again "we sit on our bottom".

Today (Valentine's) Cameron walked up to me and said "Happy Valemties Day. Are you my Valemtine?"

A preschooler to another preschooler in an Aggie outfit:
"Are you a Texas A&M girl?"

A conversation between me and a little girl at school:
"My balloon popped"
Me: Why did it pop?
"Because the air came out"

"I went to the dentist and he put lots of seals in my teeth, but not the kind that go "arf arf""

"I love you." - Cameron :)

"Night Manda" - Cameron

Ok, so cameron was walking down the hall with her mom and saw me and waved. They went into her class for a minute and when the came out i had gone into the breakroom. I hear, from down the hall, "she must be missing, ms. amanda is missing!" So I stuck my head out and she was so excited to see me again which made the day worth all of the effort i have exerted!! Let me tell you, when Cam smiles the world lights up. It is incredible.

sometimes life just isn't fun

Sometimes life just stinks....Today is definately one of those times.....I'm not happy. Stinky things keep happening...

Tonight I want to cry...

So since I can write this was a huge probability that no one will read it, I will go ahead and say everything on my mind....I am tired. I am frustrated with my roommate. I am mad that she ate my food and didn't even ask. I am sad. I'm not even sure why. I am tired of being in school. I am discouraged and frustrated. I want to be done and teaching. I want to be in Boston. I want to be in a relationship with an amazing guy. I want to fall in love. I wish I had more money. Being a broke college student really sucks. I want someone to hold me. I want someone to be interested in me. Not because it benefits them to, but because they find me interesting, fascinating even. I want the great love of my life not to be someone that exists only in my dreams. Right now I just want to walk away from it all...Every bit of it...I just want to leave and start somewhere else. Somewhere where it doesn't matter like it does here. Somewhere where I have someone to love me and for me to love.

Good night...

Let's Go RANGERS Let's Go!!

So last night I went to the Rangers game! Whoop!! I had a great time. I went with my parents and some friends... lots of fun. It just so happened that the Red Sox were playing the Yankes at the same time. Of course I have to comment of this and cheer on the Red Sox as well as the Rangers. So there is this guy who is like ten years older than me sitting in front of me and to my right one seat. And so we basically talked all night. It was fun. He was the "successful businessman"...it was good. After the game there was an AMAZING fireworks show. My friend and I decided that it would have been the perfect date ...the fireworks were so beautiful. So I was hoping the guy would leave me his number, but that was just wishful thinking... :( . The Red Sox ending up losing that game, but the Aggies won our game that day and the Rangers won and there were fireworks!! It was a great night :) You have a great night!!!

why I love Boston...

One of my friends just asked my what it is about Boston that I love so much. I thought this was a very good question, and put a lot of thought into my response. I wanted to share it with you.

i love the atmosphere the attitude of the city...have you ever heard my story about when i came to visit A&M? I knew immediately that this was where I belong, where I needed to be. I had a total and complete peace. It was just right. I have only had that feeling with such absolute certainty 4 times in my life. You just know, without a doubt, that is where you are supposed to be. When I was in Boston, it was like I finally got home, after twenty years, I was finally home. It was so right. You know how when you go on vacation you love it and you have a great time, but the last night you are like "i can't wait to get home and sleep in MY bed!" And when you get home, it is just sooo nice to be home, not because vacation was bad, because it was great, it is just so good to be home. That is what boston is for me. It is like coming home.

I can not fully explain in words what Boston is to me, but this is about as close as it comes. This is me getting about as real as it gets.

Five Years

So today is five years since my Grandfather died of cancer. I can not believe that it has been five years. At first it seemed like I just hadn't seen him in awhile be he would come over soon. Now, it isn't like I have forgotten him, but it is more like he isn't missing from my life anymore. Like my life has been rearranged and restructured and the gap is gone.(or at least made more easily hidden. It is hard to believe it has been five years. I still can't wrap my mind around it...

Today in class we talked about professionalism. Let me tell you, it seems like it get from all sides 24-7. For those of you out there who don't think that teachers are professionals or that professionalism is part of being and educator, you are way out of the loop. I would argue that teachers are required to be more professional than any other profession. Teachers must be so professional that it must be part of their persona. It has to become part of who they are. They must be professional all the time, not just during office hours. As a teacher every thing you do is scrutinized. There is always the possibility that someone who knows you is watching. It is a very large responsibility.....Anyway, I have to get back to class. Have a great day. :)