Woo! It's Friday!

Oh thank goodness, this week is finally over! It's been super long but great.

1. Survived my first week back in first grade and at a new school. Completely forgot how chatty firsties can be!

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2. Survived Open House. My ELL parents were grateful for my mom and my non ELL parents seemed comfortable with the fact that their child is part of this class.

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3. My two year anniversary was this week. Will be celebrating it tomorrow at the Melting Pot!

4. Will be helping out new freshman at my alma mater tomorrow. Love the good ol FC!

5. My school picture turned out great!

Hope you had a good week too! Hopefully I'll relax this weekend. Linking up Lauren at From My Grey Desk Blog.

It's Friday!

I can actually celebrate that it's Friday. WAHOO! Which means today is the last day of my math training. (I'm crying on the inside...not!) It's been fantastic actually, and I'm not going to lie: I might actually miss the Hippie. She's come up with even more amazing sound bites, but I keep forgetting to write them down. My mission today: write down Hippie quotes!


Anywho, I am once again linking up for High Five for Friday with Lauren over at From My Grey Desk Blog. It's fun to really look back at what made the week special. So without further adieu:

 

1. SEASON TICKETS CAME IN! WAHOOOOOOOO! Having these babies makes my brother and me even MORE pumped for football. We are first time ticket owners. This year's tickets feature some of the more prominent Jags players, including my absolute fave:

POSLUSZNY!!! He's an awesome linebacker, plus cute in that big honking football player kind of way!

2. I got to spend time with my new principal yesterday afternoon. It was a bit overwhelming, simply because of how on top of EVERYTHING she is. She told me I'm going to be grade level chair and help mentor the newbie teachers on my team. It's a bit nerve-wracking but exciting just the same!

3.  Thanks to this math training, I no longer feel like this: 

 

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4.  I indulged in some amazing cheesecake yesterday at the Cheesecake Factory. Friends of mine from my old school (still really weird to say!) met up and caught up about our summers so far. It was fun. Totally forgot to take picture but oh well. (Oh and the cheesecake was the Wild Blueberry and White Chocolate Mousse one. DELICIOUS!)


5. In one week, J and I will be driving to Atlanta for the weekend. 

Drum Corps International is having a big competetion there and we've decided to make it our mini summer vacay! Kudos to you if you know what DCI is; if not, don't worry about it. I didn't know what it was until I started dating J. :)

Hopefully we'll catch a Braves game. (I will not wear any Braves paraphernalia however; got to be loyal to the dad and bro, who are HUGE Mets fans.)

There you have it! My five favorite things from the week. Don't forget to link up!

 PS. The Olympics start in one week! YESSSSSSSSS! 
PPS. I know my font's all funky; but I'm too tired to fix it. Hope ya'll don't mind!

Teachers are the WORST students...

It's true, believe it or not! But before I tell you why, I pose this problem to you:

Lydia and her sister love Ferris wheels. At the fair, there are two Ferris Wheels next to each other. Ferris wheel A is bigger than Ferris wheel B. Lydia gets on Ferris wheel A; her sister gets on Ferris wheel B. If it takes Ferris wheel A 50 seconds to complete one rotation, and Ferris wheel B 30 seconds to complete one rotation, how many seconds will go by before both girls meet at the bottom for the first time?

Here's what I wanted to say: Who cares? If Lydia's sister gets done before her, she can just wait patiently at the bottom of Ferris wheel A. Who would ride a Ferris wheel alone? Isn't part of the fun riding WITH someone? But I did not say those things. I did finally solve the problem, after many, MANY tries. Answer is down below. 

So as I was saying, teachers make the WORST students. I am in a number sense (you know, fractions, adding, subtracting, etc.) training all week. I always stumble on to the same type of people:

• The Know It All: This is the teacher who knows EVERYTHING about the subject at hand. Her classroom is absolutely perfect and there's no way she's changing how she does things. One question then: WHY ARE YOU TAKING THIS TRAINING? Obviously you don't know everything. Oh and I inevitably always end up at the same table with this person. Murphy's Law in action folks!
• The One Who Doesn't Know Anything But She's Been Teaching Awhile: These are the ones who ask the crazy questions which lead the facilitator on weird tangents, thus making us late for lunch. Now I don't mind asking a lot of questions; I just mind when the questions already been answered and you didn't know it, because you were too busy complaining to your friends about the topic. 
• The Hippie: She's the one who always has some philosophical answer for every question. She only gets annoying when she tries to continue to defend herself, even though the facilitator and the class have proved her wrong. For instance, the one in my class this week could not understand why 0 is an even number, because 0 means nothing and nothing is not even. It's universal. SAY WHAT??
• The Ones Who Are Just There To Better Their Teaching: I fall into this category. People in this category take notes, simply answer questions , and just listen. I'm not wasting a week of summer vacation to not learn anything. That's just dumb. There are quite a few of us in this class; I recognize them, because I am sure the exasperated look that is on their face when The Hippie or The Know It All answers a question is the same as the look on my face. 

I'm sure if you're in any class, you can find examples of the people above. :) On the positive side, the guy in charge of the training is fantastic; he's actually making it fun and enjoyable to learn about the theory of math. It's a miracle I tell ya!

Have you ever taken a class and met any of the characters above? Tell me about it!

PS. The answer is 150. I know you were dying to know, right?