The Variety Show
In school the other day my cooperating teacher explained to the kids that Ed Sullivan ran a variety show. This is a variety post, because it contains a little bit of everything.
First, my placement is the very best I could have hoped for. My cooperating teacher is a great teacher and person, and very easy to talk to and work with everyday. The staff in general is very nice and the kids are polite. Who knew that middle school students would be polite? I have had a few little teaching experiences thus far, but I am excited about tomorrow. I’m working with the 9th grade clarinets, and then teaching-wise I really take off with classes!
Glenn and I have been fighting like nutcases because we are so stressed about finding a place to live. We had the perfect house (aka, nice area, decent house, but total fixer-upper) but it slipped through our fingers so to speak. I think we finally truced and realized that it is more the stress and disappointment speaking, because tonight was the first time either one of us was truly relaxed in awhile. We had dinner at our favorite place, Tosco’s, and had some pretty silly conversations.
Our realtor thinks we’re insane because we were talking about our future children, Skeletor and Evilynn, and calling them such. Not knowing it was an inside joke she made quite a face and was like “are you really naming them that?”
I did some scrapbooking before the beast that is student teaching began, but I didn’t ever post the photos. Here is one for my SAI sister Caroline’s recital
And our Members-in-Training put on a skit This is possibly my favorite-est page ever.
Leslie, I’ve been using all of the ribbon you sent me, and I completely went to town with the tag book! Thank you sooo much!
Speaking of SAI, we had our first meeting last night and it was WONDERFUL to see all of my sisters. I yelled at our president to take things like “commencement” off of the calendar. This semester is going to be amazing. 
I hope these are enough ramblings to tide everyone over! (by everyone I mean the one person who reads this…haha)
Anxiety to the extreme…
I just went to student teacher orientation today.
I begin at my field on Wednesday, in a district with an amazing music program.
My cooperating teacher told me I will be teaching eighth grade clarinets THAT day. My FIRST day!
…Eep!
Visit to Asheville!
Our SAI chapter (Epsilon Epsilon) and a really cool girl from a nearby chapter (Marissa!) left at five am to drive to Asheville, North Carolina where headquarters is located! It took eleven hours (including two stops along the way) and when we reached Asheville it was FREEZING! Why did it get colder as we made our way south?!
We had a lot of fun on Wednesday night, telling everyone our names were Minnie Davis and Mary Storrs, etc, and that our sister Caroline was getting married the next day (a Thursday?!). I actually sang a karaoke song by myself! (I’d do my senior recital if it could be in Asheville where no one will remember it…)
The next day we visited headquarters and met Ruth Sieber Johnson. She is the sweetest woman in the world. We got a tour of the building and took a ton of photos, then did some volunteer work. Ruth gave us cookies and tea in the parlor, and then we played and sang songs from the song book! It was really a wonderful day! After we finished at HQ we went to a mall of sorts in town that hosted galleries and unique shops (no Borders or Starbucks here!) I bought a beautiful wall hanging.
We stopped in on Friday before we left to shop SAI and take group pictures. Greg, who does layouts for Tempo! took quite a few nice shots of us with Ruth and her daughter Beth.
Glenn and I went to see Spamalot yesterday. Very funny musical! We had a nice dinner after and walked around Times Square a bit.
Today I returned to babysitting and when I got home, the scrapbooking bug hit me. Here’s what I did:
I got a fiance for Christmas!
So, Glenn came back from Erie and we actually got 15 minutes of Christmas together, then went to bed. The next day we exchanged gifts, and he really liked the Rush cd and the jacket. He raised his eyebrows at the He-Man dvds, but he’s the one who wants to name our future children Skeletor and EviLynn!
On that topic, a good while later he made me unpack his bags, and there was a package from the jewelry store in Erie that he likes. He told me that Santa must’ve brought it, so when I opened it and saw a beautiful marquis cut diamond, I had to laugh. I was like “Honey, I have to hurt Santa’s feelings, because I don’t want to marry him, I want to marry this guy named Glenn…” and he responded, “Well Glenn wants to marry a girl named Heather…” It was adorable. I cried, he put the ring on me, and then I called everyone in creation and he laughed at me for being girlie.
Scrapbook pages coming soon!
