October

This was the busiest (or one of busiest) weeks of my life! And right now I have about 200 papers to grade, but I just don't want to do so I am putting it off by blogging. So October was an extremely busy month for Brian and I! Here is what happened:

Brian toured a Dental school. He had to fly over that morning and flew back that night...but it is now his top choice for dental school!! We are currently waiting to see where we will be moving.

You can try and guess where Brian went. This is the temple in the area, ONLY 5 MINUTES AWAY FROM THE SCHOOL!!! That is amazing. Living in Tucson has made me miss the temple more, I wish it was closer than a 4 hour drive (about 2 there and 2 back - ish). Anyway he is off to Kentucky next week for another Dental school tour. Cross your fingers!!

I began teaching all of the classes. Before I just taught one then 2 and so on...now I am teching all of the classes grading all of their papers and it feels good. I am having a lot of fun. The students are so funny...we laugh so much in class. I can't wait to have my own classroom, student teaching is good but I want to get paid for this. ha.

Graduation is around the corner. We got our caps and gowns and we are READY to be DONE! We are also getting ready to move out of our apartment, but I have a feeling we will make it back to Tucson for every basketball game this season.

We went to the temple for another sealing of a family in our branch. it was such a wonderful experience. Here is the Banuelos family:

Stefanie y Angel - so cute!

We went to Mexico for a weekend. This was so sudden and last minute but we went and had so much fun on the beach. We went with the Amezquita family from our branch. They go about 5 times a year/ I was nervous at first of the idea we had to drive through Mexico...but it wasn't scary or bad at all....proabbly because we were with someone who knew where they were going. They know a private beach just west of Caborca and we camped out on the beach, put our sleeping bags over the sand and had a fire. It was awesome! The beach was so fun!! We were so glad to go!

It was a fishing town and we ate the most delicious fish. This is us cooking.

The sunset was amazing!!

On the drive home we saw pigs! And lots of them!!!



I had a Halloween party with the Young Women (not a real "party" according to them, but we did have fun) and I made them play some games: like take funny pictures and use my videocamera...hahaha, yeah you know the games. It was fun. Here are the fake teeth I bought them!

Halloween of course. Yeah, we were Oompa Loompas. Funny thing is, at the branch party no one knew what an Oompa Loompa was....try explaining Willy Wonka to people who aren't from this country. It was pretty funny.

We also went to Brad and Emily's house before Halloween for a Murder Mystery party! It was so fun! Brian was "Gore Underfoot" and I was "Kat Peeples". Yes, Brian was the killer!! Can't you tell?

Becoming a teacher

Well, I feel like today I have made a giant step in my future teaching carrer. I had my first student insult. I knew this day would come, but not during my student teaching. Luckily...it was pretty hilarious. I know when other teachers get insulted they get called all sorts of names!! But I bet they have never been called a "desk"!! Haha. Here is the situation (the student's name has been changed):

I am explaining the exam to the class when I see Tony still has his hat on, I told him to take it off. He refused. Then I told him to put it under his chair, he proceded to put it in his lap and I told him again to put it under his chair (because of cheating). Finally I told him again, put it under your chair and not just your desk! And he yells back  "Well....YOU'RE A DESK!!!"  I was in awe!  hahaha....so in my surprise, I didn't know if I should laugh or take it seriously. So I sent him outside until I figured out what I was going to say to him... Here is our conversation:
Me: Tony, do you know why I sent you outside?
Tony: Yeah
Me; Why?
Tony: Because I called you a desk  (lol!)

I won't go into the rest of our conversation but it is hilarious now that I think back at a student calling me a desk. I know it isn't a real big deal but I decided to deal with it before he thinks it's o.k. to call me something else, probably worse. Anyway, I guess I am a desk. Hope that it's a good thing.

Almost there....

I am not very good at blogging anymore. I still need to update my Peru trip from the summer. Not to mention our California and Utah trip. Oh well! So I thought I would just fill you in on what we have been up to since school started up again.

Brian is in school and working 2 jobs. He is very busy and rarely has time to hang out...I can't wait until December! Speaking of December, that is when Brian and I FINALLY graduate from U of A. We are both in our last semester of school and can't wait to see what is in store for us a year from now. Anyway, I am not taking classes at U of A this semester because I am student teaching at CDO (Canyon Del Oro HS). It is in Northwest Tucson. I love teaching and am having a lot of fun! It is a really great experience and am anxious to one day have my own classroom. Brian and I have no plans for remaining in Tucson after graduation. I think we are going to just travel next semester....I will let you know how that goes.

And yes, I make my students call me Senora Mortenson.