Class is now in session

Hey ya'll, So my first week felt like it did the first year I began teaching or the first week of junior high would be more accurate--I felt like I knew nothing and that I was lost most of the time. The first two days I didn't know where things were that my students kept asking for, like the lunch basket to put their lunches in until it was time to eat. I had no idea where the interconnections closet was or the YPP lab, or even the P.E. closet!

I took my students out an hour early for recess on tuesday, I looked at my clock wrong and thought that it was 2:35, when in actuality it was 1:35! I just saw the hand on the 7 and assumed it was time to go...duh! All week from then on when I said it was time for recess when the bells would ring they would ask, "Are you sure?" Teaching math thus far hasn't been that difficult, due to the fact that my students are needing 3rd grade math review, like times tables, place value and 3 to 4 digit addition.

I still don't have an email address, so don't write please. I was just recognized as working at Robert Frost. For those of us that are teachers will are reading this you will understand, but for the others of you reading this just go with it... I didn't have a class assigned to me and I can't get my PG&E goals set online, because apparently there is two of me in the district, one that's still attached to Rolling Meadows and the other Adrianne Merchant is just there, not attached to anything. GRRRR!

My students are fun though--There's this kid Felisi(who is Samoan/Tongan), he's a big kid anyway the other day the bell rand to go home and he just kind of hung around the door- waiting for me I guess. He left when this fourth grade teacher next door teased him and said, " You know Felisi she's married."

It was quite a week

Stay tuned for pictures of my students

Mrs. Merchant

getting back to work has been quite an adventure. I'd almost forgotten what it was like to work all day and stay for some event in the evening like Back to School night and then come back the next day. Ugh!
I can't believe how fast the summer has gone by and tomorrow is the First day of school.
I'm excited but nervous too. Stay tuned to further posts about my first week back.

My Week's Adventures

My week in review--nothing took place much, Monday or Tuesday, but from Wednesday to Today(Saturday Aug.1) It's been a crazy one! Wednesday I had the privilege of babysitting my youngest nephew, Nate--What a cutie! He and I got along great! He and Lucy hit it off and he just wanted to explore after he woke up from a nap. Funny thing was, when Nate slept so did Lucy! I wish I had taken a picture.
Then on Thursday my parents and my brother Jake took off for a 4 wheeling weekend. I was asked to feed the fish and dog and water the plants. Simple enough right? Haha... Friday morning I come over to feed Willow and found that a tree limb, not a little one mind you...a good sized tree limb has broken off the tree and is hanging down.
Willow(the family dog) usually goes for a swim in the cannal behind my mom and dad's house, so Friday we brought Lucy over to go with her, wear out both dogs at the same time. I took Willow, boy did I make the wrong choice, she pulled me around the block enough to send my flip flops flying literally.
Then today, oh today... It's only 9:53 a.m. and already I'm ready to go back to bed. Decided to take Willow swimming by herself earlier...in theory good plan...in reality, not so much! There was another woman and her dog walking on the canal this morning...which was okay because Willow kept on swimming without even paying attention. However, the second time the woman passed with her dog, Willow lunges out of the water and goes after this dog! Both the woman and I tried to stop it, she helped me get Willow's collar while she was trying to shield her dog! Luckily both dogs are fine and no blood seems to have been shed.
When my parents get home tomorrow afternoon what am I suppose to say, "the fish are still living, you're plants are fine, your tree is dead and your dog caused a fight on the canal, but overall, everything went fine!"
Oh Boy! I really hope that between the remainder of today and through tomorrow morning that all goes well without much more drama.

waffles on sunday morning

So Sunday morning, my mom made waffles and sent me home with some batter for Corby and Lucy, that's right I didn't go to church, I'm a sinner! But after falling in the shower and hitting my head pretty hard only a few days before I thought it would be difficult for me to go to Nursery and not go crazy...there I let my confession be known to the world!

I had made one too many waffles with the leftover batter that my mom sent home, so I gave it to Lucy.

This is her adventure with hot waffles

Our Fourth of July

So on the Fourth of July my family got together to celebrate Father's day, the Fourth and Corby's birthday as my mom has been out of town since the 20th of June visiting her cousin in California.Here are some pics of the birthday boy, and the fireworks display--forgive me, I'm still learning what setting to use in what light...

Enjoy

Photo 1- the Birthday Boy

Photo 2- dad cleaning up parachutes

Photo 3- Jake and his torch

Photo 4- ohh,ahh

What happens when...

As many of you know by now, I'm going back to teaching...well I have been going through boxes and stuff to see what can go with me...well Today I realized just how bad I need to get my stuff over there. Lucy, has taken to exploring mama's stuff and found my "shout out" cones.

I went out in the backyard and sure enough there they were, all chewed up! I love having a dog!

she couldn't really figure out how to chew it much though.

Giving of yourself

On Saturday, our Relief Society President calls at 9 a.m. and asks if Corby and I would be willing to go do a cannery assignment canning peas at 11a.m. Nothing like scrambling to find someone at the last minute, eh? Corby and I explained we had other plans to go to the temple and such, but she dashed our plans by telling us that in order to do baptisms you had to have your own family names. Gee thanks Cheryl! Anyway...

We finally agree and I meet Corby over there after going to the distribution center.

Well we stand around for the first hour of the time we were there, I kept thinking..."oh yeah, this is what I wanted to do with my Saturday". Then one guy asks us to go upstairs where the peas are going off a conveyor belt and help pick through them before they go in the cans.

It's a job I don't want to do again. We threw out shells and stems that hadn't gotten taken out before they came to the cannery. We also threw out the bad peas and something called 'night shade' that looks like a pea with a long stem attached that is apparently poison.

now to the point of my post... I was sitting there doing what I was suppose to and all of the sudden my foot slips after I ran my foot along some water and thrown out garbage...I hit my knee on the side of the metal conveyor belt. I didn't think much about it at the time other than that it hurt some.

Well Sunday I wake up and it's not only bruised but it's swollen! For the remainder of the weekend and on Monday this is what I looked like.

I just have to remind myself...I will be blessed in heaven for the service I performed regardless of the repercussions.