365 Pictures - Week Three

4/3/11

4/4/11 - Outside of the Behavioral Sciences Bldg.

4/5/11 - A flower on the plaza

4/6/11 - Sign outside of the school I volunteer at

4/7/11


4/8/11 - Flash Group hug on the plaza forming (taken before I joined in:)

4/9/11

365 Pictures - Week Two

3/28/11 - The grass is a little bit greener! :)

3/29/11

3/30/11

3/31/11 - The kitty that came to visit our house! :)

4/1/11

4/2/11 - BEAUTIFUL day! :)

365 Pictures - Week One

I'm starting a new photo project, because I am disappointed with my lack of photography while at CSU. I'm gonna take a picture every day for a year. Rather than post my pictures every day, I'll do a weekly post (I'm shooting for every Sunday), so I can show off my pictures! :)

3/21/11 - A walk in City Park with Erin

3/22/11 - Choir concert with Laura :)


3/23/11 - The flag outside of the school I volunteer at


3/24/11 - So many books...so little time ;)


3/25/11 - Piano keys from the basement where I spent the night reading

3/26/11 - Walking to class


3/27/11 - A fence on City Park Ave.

A Semester (so far) in Pictures

Pranking the guys' floor during the Super Bowl! :)

Tea Party with the girls :)

Dinner at Woody's

Elisa and I pranking the guys' floor

Girls' night at Olive Garden

More pranking of the guys' floor

Josh's Choir Concert

Playing Catch Up

I know that it's been forever since I updated this thing. I been busy!

Rather than a really long and boring post, I'll just do the highlights. And maybe a few pictures. :)

*Classes are awesome! I'm taking Adolescents' Literature, American Prose since 1900, Spanish 300, and a Gen. Psychology class. With the exception of Espanol, I love my classes. A mí me molesta la clase de Español pero quiero aprenderlo. Entonces, sufro en silencio.

*My best friend is in France for the semester. That's lame. (She's having an awesome time though, so I'm happy for her)

*I'm averaging 3 books per week for my classes. My brain will be mush by May.

*I've been having trouble sleeping. Falling asleep, really. It takes me 1-2 hours to fall asleep now, which is ridiculous. I'm usually out within minutes.

*I'm still volunteering with the kindergartners every week. They're learning to read. It's precious. :)

*I officially applied and received acceptance to the teacher licensure program. It's exciting and scary all at the same time; sometimes I can't believe this is really happening!

*Also exciting and terrifying: I only have THREE semesters of college left! Eeeeek!

I'll do a picture post later. I'm not feelin it now. Ha. :)

Gingerbread Houses and Christmas Cookies! :)

We decorated gingerbread houses and sugar cookies at the house and had so much fun! Ashley and I made a very sad house...but it was full of love. LOL :)



A Tolkien House cookie :)


Reindeer cookie :)


Weird snowmen lol



All of the gingerbread houses


We had a large crack in our house and tried to repair it with gumdrops and icing...but it didn't really work. lol


Ashley and I with our sad house.


The front of our sad house






All of us with our houses :)

My Life Lately...

Here's a list of random things that have happened since my last blog post.

1. Sharkbait died. :(
2. I slept almost 13 hours last night....It was AMAZING.
3. I got a free Meningitis vaccination. A CSU student died from complications of Meningitis and another was hospitalized. Bonfils even had to cancel the blood drive last month since so many students had been exposed. :( Get vaccinated if you haven't in the last 3 years!!
4. I made a cute apron...fabric, seam tape, and an iron....that is the extent of my crafting skills lol
5. Ashley and I saw Inception for $4 at the Student Center. I freaking lovveeee that movie! :)

That's really all that I can think of...not much has changed. Next week is Thanksgiving break and I am so looking forward to it. I can't wait to see my family, my friends, get some sleep, and see Harry Potter. :D

(Although I will be working on 2 projects and 2 papers that are due after break. Grossss)

RIP Sharkbait

School so far...

Is busy. Between classes, volunteering, work, and homework, I have no time to breathe. Or sleep. It's a good night when I get 5-6 hours of sleep. Being busy is sometimes really great but lately I've been feeling really overwhelmed...and I'm SO tired. Don't get me wrong, I love the things keeping me busy...I just don't love the result.

Anyway, school is great otherwise. I love my classes (except my composition class). I am taking 4 classes this semester: Gender in World Literature, Composition (Writing in Education), Spanish, and Literacy and the Learner (which is kind of like three classes in one because there's a lecture, lab, and recitation). The Literacy and the Learner class is a lot of fun. Every week I go to a middle school here in Fort Collins and work with a group of 6th graders on Literacy skills. Each week, I prepare a short lesson and activity to teach them a literacy skill. I was TERRIFIED at first but now I love it! It's challenging and a lot of work but incredible practice and it's really rewarding when the kids respond and participate. I also love my Gender in World Lit. class. We've read some really great books this semester. We just finished the Kite Runner. Loved it! The only class I really don't care for is my composition class. It's so boring and we did this awful group project at the beginning of the semester that didn't go so well. ugh. It was terrible. Anyway, it's just not my favorite class at the moment. At least it's easy though. Ha.

I've also been volunteering at two elementary schools (3x a week) because I need 20 hours to apply for the school of ed. It is so much fun. At one of the schools I work with 4th graders and at the other I work with kindergartners. :) The 4th grade teacher has me do a lot of clerical work so I don't get to work with the kids as much, which is disappointing because I WANT more practice with the kids. The kindergarten teacher though, she's amazing, and actually lets me work with the kids. They are so fun and so cute! I get to do all kinds of fun stuff with them. Sometimes it's just reading them a book, working on learning to write the alphabet, or helping them learn their address and phone numbers. Last week we went outside and took pictures of the different parts of the trees. So fun! :) I hope that I can still volunteer with them next semester.

I've been working in the kitchen at the Tolkien House. I only have three shifts a week but it's an extra $100-ish every month, which is nice since I have to buy groceries now. I really like working in the kitchen but it's a little crazy this year because we have a new cook, who doesn't have a lot of experience. So, a lot of responsibility for keeping the kitchen running has fallen on Ashley and I. Ashley, because she's the kitchen crew chief of staff...and me because I am her roommate. Haha. I kinda fear for the fate of the kitchen next year when we're not here...

Oh, and the fish drama. Our fish Pico died a couple of weeks ago. :( We don't really know what happened to him, other than he had some sort of infection and the antibiotics didn't help. Now Sharkbait, my betta that I got during my first year of college, is sick. He has a disease called Dropsy, and even though I've been medicating him, he probably won't make it. I think he's just too old. :(

So anyway, that's my life lately. Thanks if you're still reading this incredibly long post. I'll try to be more consistent with my blogging.

Peace Out. ;)

We've been havin' fun all summer long...

I haven't blogged in awhile because it's been a fun/busy/eventful summer. I've loved (almost) every minute of it! In June my grandma had hip replacement surgery and stayed with my Aunt during her recovery so I've spent a lot of time either at my grandma's, my aunt's or my house. I spent a lot of time with my uncle's new puppy, Oakley. He's a BLAST! And waayy too adorable for his own good hehe. ;) I spent a week with my best friend in Loveland, which was also a lot of fun. The only thing that really sucked about this summer was when our apartment got broken in to and my laptop was stolen. There was a lot of hysterics and tears that day. Luckily, I had a back up of all of my pictures, music, etc but everything from the last 6 months was GONE. D: Very sad!

I'm really looking forward to this coming semester of school. I will try to post about the first few weeks when I get a chance. In the mean time, here's some awesome pictures from this summer. :)

My uncle's "side of water" from Chili's. Haha. :D

My friend Ashley and Paul (he lived in the same house as us last year) doing some improv on stage with a comedy group in Old Town Fort Collins. Ashley and I went to a friend's wedding over the summer and met up with people that lived in the house last year. At the time, there was some sort of festival going on in Old Town so after the wedding we walked around and listened to the live performers, watched the magician, and this comedy group. Lots of fun! :)

Ashley's puppy dog, Ginger :)

A toad that Ashley and I found, while I was staying in Loveland! :)

Ashley and I

Our heart shaped banana cookie. :)

After making banana cookies haha

Mr. Oakley :)