march

March has been a good one! I started my practicum teaching 2nd grade. It was an absolute blast. I was at a school with spanish immersion where the kids do school in english for literacy and then do everything else in spanish. My job was to teach one lesson each day and kind of learn the ropes of management (transitions, lining up, walking down the hallway, calendar, etc.) It all came so naturally and confirmed that I chose the right profession. Even though it was 6 hours a day, it went by so fast and I loved every minute of it. Of course there's a lot to learn, but it was a great start to seeing where I'm at and what I can improve upon. Another plus of the immersion program is that we got two classes, one in the morning and afternoon, so there were more students to get to know and LOVE! I also got to use some spanish and that was so fun too! The kids were amazed that I knew how to speak some haha!

So that took up majority of my time, but I also managed to squeeze in some fun as well.

At the beginning of the month, Miss Chloe had a birthday! So glad she joined the 23 club. We celebrated at none other than Slab. Great pizza. Great friends. Great fun.

Other items of note this month:

The weather started warming up! This calls for no jackets and ice cream cones :)

We also went to a bridal shower for Mary. It's always fun to get together for a party. So happy for her!

Sometimes going to class at 5:15 can be really rough. But I was so glad that I went this day because we got to hear from a world famous pipa player. It's a chinese instrument and it's beautiful! She is so talented and it was so fun to hear her story and how she's gotten to this point. She was performing the next day in the HFAC but we got to hear a little snippet for free! It was intriguing.

I have actually really enjoyed this world music cultures class. 

We have studied the music of South India, West Africa, and Bali. 

Little baby Mak was born and blessed. He's the cutest. We were all at Matt and Mikelle's one night and Laina had been talking a lot about contractions but she was being induced the next week and we all thought she would make it until then. Uh. nope. Very next day her water broke and she had the baby haha! Tim was able to make it up after a couple days though and it was so fun to see their little family. I could just snuggle him forever.