As I write this I am sitting in my new house that I just moved in to here in Charlotte. If you remember, I have been living with an older lady (the aunt of a friend from Covenant) and its been great but I am so excited to be in my own place with a room I can do whatever i want with. I have no furniture yet and am sleeping on a blow up mattress but my parents are coming in 2 weeks with some furniture yay! I am living with 2 girls which is good--before it felt like I was living by myself. Right now I am stealing someone else's wireless internet but tomorrow we are supposed to be getting it for our house. It is so cool to actually have all of these things be my very own. I don't think I have fully grasped yet the fact that I am living on my own and can make my own life for myself.

Teaching: I think I am beginning to like it. Our school just had a retreat where we went to a Young Life camp up in the mountains of NC for a few days and it was amazing! I love camp and I love hanging out with the kids and the other teachers. I got pied in the face several times by students and one night during dinner got called up to this stage along with my principal and two students. The principal and I both had to but on these gigantic sweatsuits and then stand on a scale and have our weight announced to the whole school. Then the 2 students had one minute to stuff our sweatsuits with ice to see who gained the most weight. I lost by one pound...stupid girl student couldn't move fast enough. Finally we had a variety show night where the teachers and chaperones did some different performances. I went on stage with a few other teachers and some parents and we were all wearing white t-shirts and the lights were off with a strobe light going. The teachers and parents all lined up on their hands and knees on the ground in a line to form a "bucking bronco" my job was to run and launch myself off of one dad's back and land on another dad's back and then ride him like I was a bull rider and eventually he would buck me off. Does anyone else think this might be slightly awkward? When the person telling me what to do was explaining all this I kept saying, "you want me to do what?!?!??" but needless to say, it was a hit. I also had to act out a zit being popped and I was the zit that came up at the end. I had some half and half in my mouth that I spit out into the crowd as I was "popped" all the students said I was the star and I think I earned the respect of some of the other teachers.
I did not mind though. I'll be honest, I kind of like that kind of attention. I really do like people telling me I am amazing and cool and a star. is that so wrong?

i really do love most of my students. and deep down inside I do think of them as my friends sometimes---probably not the best mindset to have, but I don't think I am a very serious person and the students keep me from being too serious.

I am running in an 8K on saturaday with a girl I met at church and the baby she will be babysitting that weekend in a jogging stroller-I'm excited. I went for a run yesterday around my new house, got lost all over charlotte and what was only supposed to be a 20-25 minute run turned into an hour and a half, but at least now I know I will be able to last on sat.

I have the first official dinner date basically of my life on friday night with this person I am not too excited about and basically I am an idiot and if I were just better on the phone and not afraid to just be honest I could be sitting safe at home friday night, but I guess it will be good for me though and if anything it will be a nice meal maybe some cheesecake for dessert and hopefully I will have enough guts to say I am not really interested in a relationship right now if he asks if I want to do something again.

well tomorrow is an early day and I want to sleep. Come visit me at my new house!!!