K has been gone a week. She gets back tonight. She spent a quick week in Pennsylvania attending the funeral of her grandma and visiting with her family that lives in the area. I know she enjoyed it but funerals can be tough. Her grandmother lived to be 99.
So the past week has been a journey back to the time of being a bachelor. Not really though. I never lived alone when I was a bachelor. I mean Levi and Tahoe were around. Scott was there. Peter too. And Deulen. Oh Deulen. Remember when you jumped off the third floor….into a large pile of snow…wearing….oh nevermind. It was awesome though. I know because there are pictures. *chuckle. Let’s also not forget the hair sandwich, snow pants, Crazy Jet Fighters and NBM.
So this week has not been filled with people jumping off of balconies in states of undress. Much time has been spent planning lessons for my senior oral English majors and putting a syllabus together. For nine weeks I get 5 sections of seniors for 4 hours a week. Seniors are pretty awesome. Some are already packing their bags to try to find jobs and I can tell they have ants in their pants. There is such a difference between our current school and the school we were at last year. We loved our school last year, but opportunities to be involved with students are exponentially higher here.
Before K left we went as a team to a new park in our city. I think the park was called Forest Park. Apparently they have planted 70,000 trees as they developed the area. I liked the water spraying to music thing in one of the small lakes they have. I’ll give you both pictures that I took on the train of the team. Neither is too good, but if you mentally piece them together, you’ll see that our team is 8 adults and 4 kids. Age 3 to…. older than 3. 
Bachelor time wahoo! Last time I had a bachelor week I bought two large pizza's from Papa J's on Monday and had pizza and rootie beer everynight thereafter!
ReplyDeleteHopefully your week was as exciting!!
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Coolio. Glad to hear that you're holding down the fort and that things seem like there going to go well with classes and all. And a new park?! Maybe the "new city" is going to be alright, after all. : )
ReplyDeleteMy move's going alright, too. I need to post, as well, but...just haven't found time. You know how it goes. Good job getting one up, though. And you still don't have e-mail in your apartment? If not, it's doubly impressive. I have internet at work AND in my apartment, and still I haven't posted. Lame, I know. Maybe someday. Anyway, hey to Kim, too. Hope the travels went safely. Talk to ya later....
Crazy jet fighters! Quality game.
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Temporary spats of bachelorhood are fun. I play a lot of Nintendo and brush up on archived Simpsons when Kelsey's out of town. Couple that with Carl's Jr and cheap American beer and viola!
Are you two going to cancel classes on Christmas Day? I read that you didn't for Thanksgiving, which is understandable, but Christmas? Perish the thought!