What's Been Going On?

 The last few weeks have been wonderfully relaxing.

This week I am back to being busy.

The transition into being busy started with running the Hospital Hill 10K. This was one of the best races I have ever done!! The course lived up to it's name, it was ALL hills. I can't wait to do it again next year! Spence captured some photos with his GOPRO (SO they are a bit fish eyed).

If I can be SUPER annoying for a second...

I finished in 56 minutes--and was ECSTATIC!

 

Monday, I got back into 'real life', and started contributing to society, instead of contributing to Bravo.  

This week I started my practicum teaching experience at a Juvenile Detention Center. So far it has been really great. I come home exhausted, not so much from teaching--but from being in such a new, and different environment. Thoughts, and questions are swimming through my head the whole time I am there. Mostly, I find myself thinking about what kind of assignments I should create for the students, and how our juvenile court system works (law friends...questions are coming).

I am absolutely in awe of how organized, and efficient everything is at the JDC. I am super impressed at how the teachers organize their classroom, and individualize student lessons. It isn't easy, everyday  new students either arrive, or students have left. The classroom, and kids are always changing.

I am excited to learn from this experience, it feels SO great to be back in the classroom teaching--I missed it so much!

This weekend Spence and I are off to the Lake of the Ozarks--for our first wedding, in "Tour de Weddings 2012." Neither of us has ever been to the Ozarks, I am very excited to be spending the weekend at a lake! I highly doubt it will compare to the lakes of Minnesota...but it's a lake all the same :)