2 New members of the apartment

My rommates and I decided that we really needed a pet in our apartment so we settled on getting a fish (I wanted to get a turtle but that was a little unpractical...). It's Friday night and our outing is going to walmart to look for fish. We get there and we're looking at the fish trying to decide what kind we want and who catches our attention. Well, suddenly one of my rommates bursts out laughing and points to a fish and we knew right off the bat that that was the one for us! It was love at first sight. hmmmmm... Well, this fish is really funny looking and when you look at her you can't help but burst out laughing! We were laughing so hard that I was nearly crying! We knew that every day we'd get a good laugh when we looked at our fish and brightened up our day. :) The guy helping us with the fish just smiled and slowly shook his head as we were laughing uncontrollably! Never in my life have I seen such a funny fish! I know, you're wondering what kind of fish it is that I'm going on and on and on about, right? Ok, I'll tell you. The fish is a new breed to Walmart called the Celestial Eye Goldfish. The body looks just likea goldfish, but the eyes are HUMUNGUS! They look like they are located on a huge zit on each side of the head and the eyeball is on top of it. When you look at her you just feel like reaching in there and popping the zit! (don't worry, I'm not an animal abuser, I wouldn't do it to my precious fish). The huge eyes are kind of purplish becuase you can see the blood inside and it's just hilarious! It's like a small body with HUGE eyes! On of our roommates is kind of creeped out about it, but the rest of us love it! Here are some pictures of Celest (that's what we named her becuase she is a Celestial Eye Goldfish). I really don't think it does her justice and it is a lot more funny seeing her live, but this will do I guess:

Aren't those poor little puppy eyes?!

She looks like an old woman pondering in this one...with saggy dark eyes and everything!

We decided that we didn't want Celeste to be lonely and die so for cheap we got a black goldfish. He has a gimp, kinda like Nemo, but it's cute. Friday was Elvis' b-day so we named him Elvis. Plus he looks classy and likes to move his hips! He likes to move it move it! He likes to move it move it! He likes to...move it!

Here are just some weird pictures of me with the fish. :) Forgive the first one..it's kinda weird. lol


I think Celeste and I look the same in this picture, what do you think? They do say that you start looking like your pets!

We love our fish!

Wonderful Ideas for Teaching

So, my cooperating teacher is a real talker and so I stay at the school for a good 2 hours after it gets out. It's ok, though, because I am learning a lot of new things. We start talking about things and one thing turns into the next and soon we've talked about a lot of things. For instance, today she wanted to show me a program that I could use for their spelling and such and then she told me how she had lost her copy of the program she bought so she was using the schools and I expressed a desire to see how much it would cost becuase it would be really useful. So we got on the internet and looked it up and...it costed way to much! You could probably find it cheaper somewhere else but it got bought by Mcgraw company and is now way more expensive than when she bought it. Well, we then started talking about room setups and she showed me this really cool website of a teacher who has TONS of ideas. It's amazing and looks way fun! This is it in case you are interested in looking at it....the few people who are teachers..if any..that look at this..anyways, here it is-http://hill.troy.k12.mi.us/staff/bnewingham/myweb3/index.htm- We had a great time looking at that. Get this, every year she has a new theme and she decorates her room accordingly, has activities all throughout the year for it, takes pictures of the students on the first day and makes introductory things for it (for example, for the TEAM theme she took their pics and then made a type of baseball card out of it with a cool background and everything and then on back it was a thing telling all about them so everyone could get to know them). Anyways, it's just amazing. One thing I envy is that she has a HUGE classroom and so she can do tons of stuff for it. All of the classrooms that I've been in have been so small that there's barely room to read anywhere or even do centers- sometimes there's only room for desks! So much more learning could go on if they'd make classrooms bigger so the students have more chances to learn independently and feel comfortable. Well, if you have time you should look at the site..if you want. :)

I'm in Vegas!

I'm here in Vegas! It's exciting and nerv-racking at the same time. Here are some things I love about down here:
It's not freezing here which is nice but I may miss the snow eventually
We have a washer and dryer in the apartment
LOVE the walk in closet!
Lots of new adventures awaiting

So, those are some pretty good things. I do hate driving here, though. On the raods instead of painted on lines they have these white and yellow dots which confuse me like no other! Why can't they just have regular old painted on lines like everyone else? They must be special...i guess. Anyways, I've already had my embarrassing moment here. When I first got here the gate opened because another car was going through it so I just followed it and thought it opened automatically. So I leave to go get groceries and come back and it doesn't open automatically. So I quickly search around for somewhere to punch the code in and finally spot it. I drive up to it but it is still to far away so I open my door. It gives me directions to look at the directory and find the apt and then it says it's calling...and I wait..and it says no answer. I just want to punch in the numbers and get in! A black kid across the way motions to me something and I just nod. Anyways, I just fiddle with the thing and then a person pulls up behind me and eventually says he'll just punch it in and we'll both get it. How embarrassing! well, hopefully I can figure out how to get in for next time!