Bowling

Can I just say I LOVE my ward?! We are all really good friends and do things together all the time. A bunch of us went bowling the other night and it was super fun. There were maybe like 20 of us there. So I bowled the best game EVER!! 130! Ok, you're probably thinking that's totally lame, but I'm lucky if I ever break 100. The first game I bowled a 69, completely pathetic, but I rocked it the second time. Just needed to get warmed up :) I got lots of spares and I got a STRIKE at the end of the 10th frame after a spare. What a good way to finish it off!

And yes, my form stinks. I don't go bowling that much. I think we are going to go once a month now. My friend Abbey says I look like an old grandma trying to find my cane. Haha!

Check this out!

Haha, a couple of Sundays ago, some of us were hanging outside the apartments chilling on the hammock. I was actually grading my students' Spanish journals (you'll notice the stacks of notebooks on the ground...). So this dude, Clark, was sitting next to me and from another perspective, this is what it looked like. My head on someone else's body. Aaaaah! Bahahaha!

All Hail to Queen Kristina

This morning my school, Maeser Prep, put on a Renaissance Faire for the fun of it. They had all kinds of booths set up with games, food, and other vendors, not too mention everyone very heartily dressed up and played the part. Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves despite the cold and wet drizzle. Fortunately is has warmed up a bit since then.

Well, lucky me, I got to be involved. The school decided to vote a male and female teacher to be the King and Queen of the Faire. Well, my students like me so much that I got voted in. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Maybe they just wanted to see me dressed up like a fair maiden. Oh wait, rather fair Queen! Ha! No, it was super fun. I went to the Hale Center Theater and got to pick out my own dress. I did pretty good eh? So we got to start off the Faire by marching in a procession with bagpipes and annouce the beginning of the festivities. Afterwards I ran into this cool dude dressed as a knight. My knight in shining armor! Haha! It was fun! Sorry, my hair is a bit nasty....that's what the rain does to it!

Weeked of CRAZINESS!!!

This last weekend was a busy one. My sister Sonya graduated from BYU from the College of Nursing and had two commencement exercises, Thursday & Friday. Congratulations Snowb! What an accomplishment!

Then my brother and sister-in-law had a party to reveal if their baby they are expecting is going to be a boy or a girl It was a lot of fun. They gave everyone a present and had them open it. Baby toys. But of course Erik took his sweet time and opened his last.....a yellow baby outfit. YELLOW?! What the heck does that mean?! Then they brought out the "real" present....pink outfits. A GIRL!! I am so excited for them and wish them the best. But let's be honest, I'm way excited to be an Aunt for the first time.

Saturday morning we had a bridal shower for Sonya. Good food, good games, good presents :) It was nice to have so much family from both our side and Tyler's.

BYU Language Fair

This year I took my students to compete in the BYU Language Fair. What's that, you may be asking yourself. A headache, that's what. Haha, no it turned out to be a really good experience both for me and especially for my students. They weren't very excited about it to begin with but after going they said they really enjoyed it.

The Language Fair is a chance for students learning another language to compete against each other in skits, speeches, show & tell, funny stories, and trivia questions. We competed against 13 other high schools, even including 5A (we are only 2A). And check this out..... We took 3rd place! I was SO proud! I was literally shocked. We had spent tons of time in class preparing for the fair, but my students weren't doing what they were supposed to be doing and not showing up when they were supposed to to practice the skit. In fact I changed the lines of both skits the day before our competition, April 15, because it was way too long. They actually pulled off the skits very well and most of them had actually memorized their lines! They sure hadn't the day before! I just didn't expect them to be prepared. But in fact they were. I learned not to underestimate anyone in their capabilities. In fact, I got some compliments from the scoregivers saying how good my students did and they were the best speeched they had heard all day!

My Spanish 2 level even won the Language Bowl!! Champs! There is a language bowl for each lever (2, 3, 4, and native speakers) and they took first! It is a round of trivia questions that are asked, played against another school in bracket format. Again, I was estatic.

I ended up taking 84 Spanish students, on my own not to mention. It actually turned out quite well despite the tipped ration. Oh, and this was our first year to participate as well. Congratulations to my students!!