(summer) School's Out

During the last week, we had testing in all subjects. You can see above that this one particular student was enthralled in her book.

Jordan - my Texan coworker - works with the chillen'

He will be a 4th grade writing teacher placed at a different school in the fall

A student feverishly fills in the Math assessment (and the weekly lesson that I taught them)

I also worked with him in Academic Intervention Hour focusing on Reading. The final week's focus was Author's Purpose so for the Persuasive purpose.. I had them write me a persuasive letter on...

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On the last day, we had a school assembly and taught them the chant that we created. 

Here is the Pre-K'ers teaching the rest of the school...

Last Day Photos

Some other fellow corps members

Jordan and I

Aaaand....

 this one is kind of embarrassing... I'm getting older and older by the minute

Move-in and other random photos

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So we've had this entire week off and I've been spending it relaxing and running many errands.

We finally moved in to the apartment and are starting to piece things together...

Last Saturday, we moved in and then went to go see

 Inception

I highly recommend. 

After the movie I recognized that I felt proud that I understood it all, and then took a further step back to say I was proud of a movie for making me proud to understand it.

It was good.

Then the next morning we went to get brunch at Baby Barnaby's (see above picture tambien)

It has a very San Fran vibe (see the posters on the wall [shout out to Sooz])

That is one of my roommates- Dave Lopez- a 27 year old rockstar grad from Florida

and my other roommate August, a Jersey grad from Princeton

Waiting for our couch to arrive, we mandated a man date of movie watching on our...

new TV

We all passed our TExES exams so we thought it was ample reason for a celebratory television purchase

Since then, I have...

discovered Four Loko

put together a 10 piece bookshelf for the cable guy to put the boxes on

laughed at August's 100+ piece desk he put together

Our couch arrived!

been frustrated with Houston traffic. Still.

would have retrospectively subbed out one of the Four Cheese's of the Pizza for a dab of sauce, with August

grilled out kabob-style and

• Got a free Y membership
• bought raquetballs and played for 2 hour yesterday
• Jammed to Marc Anthony, Mario & Biz Markie, and the Gospel station in Houston
• played some video games
• and other miscellany 

As a teacher, I won't be paid until mid-August / September so I'm living off whatever I have.

And that means, a couple months or so of my room looking like

oh. and p.s. Mom and Dad my address is 320 W. Saulnier St, Houston TX 77019

Love