Taking the Plunge...

I am sorry for my absence from the blog again. Sometimes I just feel like I have nothing to write about, but I enjoy updates from everyone else, so I figured I should post an update on myself. School ends this week. So come Friday I will officially be done teaching Math. I am so excited to begin teaching Geography next Fall!! I will be starting full time at R&L though once school is out, so I will still be working the same hours, I will just have a much better commute. Last weekend I went to a Regional Young Single Adult Activity. We went to Camp Williams which is about at the "Point of the Mountain" for those of you who know Utah. If you don't, then it is south of Salt Lake City. Anyway, while there I got to shoot military guns that have been rigged to only shoot air, but that feel like real guns. We shot at a screen, and lets just say I don't have very good aim. I also jumped off a 34 foot tall tower. It is a tower that they use to train paratroopers. They told us that 34 feet is the point where your brain tells you to not jump. Any higher or any lower and people have an easier time jumping, but for some reason at 34 feet, your brain shuts down and tells you not to jump. You are attached to a bungee cord thing that simulates what it feels like have a parachute open up. I wasn't going to do it, but with some heavy convincing from my friend Kim and my Branch President and his wife, I decided to just do it. I knew that I wouldn't die, and also that it would make a good story. I had a friend video tape me so that I could prove that I actually did it. It was very empowering to be able to conquer a fear. I was absolutely terrified on the top of that tower, and thought that I was going to hyperventilate, but I took the plunge and it was AWESOME!!!

I GOT A JOB!!!!

After way too long of a wait, I got a job!!! Next fall I will be working for the Davis School District at Syracuse Jr. High, home of the Seahawks (I'm excited about the mascot too). It will be fabulous. If I drive, my commute will be 2 minutes, and if I walk it will be about 10 minutes. I'll be teaching 9th grade Geography and possibly a couple of classes of 7th Grade Utah studies. I've never taught or taken Utah History, but I took Church History in Institute and that is basically the same thing right? I am so thrilled to finally have something solid and settled in my life. I have been in such limbo as I've tried to figure out where I needed to be going and what direction I needed to head. Thank you to everyone who supported, believed in, and prayed for me. This job has just worked out so well. Now I can really say that I am a teacher!