Back to School

We started this semester off with my birthday. Jacqui decorated my room and surprised me with homemade peach pie! There were pink balloons everywhere, confetti all over the place, and pink streamers hung from the ceiling in our room (some of which are still there 2 months later). It was so much fun to come back to school to a decorated room. The roommates also made brownies for me! It was really fun. Jacqui is such a great friend.

This semester I am doing my student teaching. My first block is in a fourth grade class (which by now I have already finished) and my second block is in a kindergarten class (that's where I am at right now). I will graduate in December. It's pretty exciting and scary.

Jacqui's semester is a little less busy....but she definitely has enough to do. She is taking 9 credits (one of them is hip-hop that has reminded her how uncoordinated she is), so thats nice for her. But she is also working a couple hours a day, and she has a lot of volunteer hours to do as well. So she is keeping pretty busy too. Jacqui will graduate in the Spring, and we will be able to walk together then!

We are living in the same apartment complex this year, except now we are living in the basement apartment. Which comes with a few extra bonuses like: a patio, spiders, bigger kitchen/living room and a higher heat bill. So far it hasn't been too bad, and most of the spiders are dead in spider traps anyways! This year we have four other roommates. We are living with Clelia again for the 2nd year and two of her friends moved in as well, Misha and Aubrey. The other roommate that lives with us is a girl Aubrey became friends with over the summer, Julie. It has been really fun and we all get along pretty well.

Here are some fun things we have done so far this year......

This was us at a concert that they had on campus.

I believe it was the band A Rocket Summer.

We were so close we could touch him,

and we almost died in that crazy crowd!

Luckily we ran into the trusty J.Honda,

and he watched out for us and made sure that

we were right by eachother the whole time!

Relief Society canoeing, bonfire activity!

So fun, and we were so tan then....

Roommate day at the football game!

(Lindsay, Aubrey, Clelia, Julie-Jacqui took the picture)

Roommate picture at the football game!

(Lindsay, Jacqui, Clelia, Julie, Aubrey)

This is what we were doing at the game,

taking a nice afternoon nap in the sun!

Conference fruit pizza tradition!

Enjoying a nice conference afternoon picnic at First Dam.

Conference weekend at First Dam.

We look like we are glowing because we were spiritually enlightened.

Conference weekend at First Dam

(notice the sun shining and the short sleeved shirts being worn)

Roommate bonding at Aggie Ice Cream

(Lindsay, Misha, Jacqui)

Misha is a great photographer...

Enjoying each others company and some Aggie Ice Cream

Roommate Halloween party!

Caramel Apples!

(Top row: Lindsay, Misha, Julie

Bottom row: Clelia, Aubrey, Jacqui)

For our roommate halloween party we made carmel apples, which were delicious. And then Jacqui and I tricked our roommates into watching the scary movie The Roommate by putting the disc in a Casper the Friendly Ghost movie case. It was priceless. Misha left the room before the movie started, Aubrey left the room within fifteen minutes of the movie being started, Clelia fell asleep. So only three of us actually watched the movie! It was pretty creepy. Perfect to watch with roommates!

And this is a picture of the first apple that I ever recieved as a gift from a student.

I feel like I have finally made it as a teacher!

Sweet Rachael in my fourth grade class gave this to me,

along with a fake flower (because it will never die).

So sweet.

As you can tell, the school year has gotten off to a great start! We have been having so much fun, and we are trying to take advantage of our last year up here. It's crazy to think that this is our fourth year living in Logan! Time just seems to fly! We will probably be doing posts about our first few years living here, so it will be fun to catch up on all of that..... take a stroll down memory lane.