Blogspot or Wordpress?

I've volunteered to create and update the blog for our trip to India in July.

The question is...

Blogspot or Wordpress?

I'm unhappy with various things on both sites, so I guess I'll just have to pick one and be willing to take the good, the bad, and the notsocooperative. ;)

Happy Monday!

Today...

is Thursday and it's 10:01 am as I am starting this blogpost.

Update on life:

1) I am about to head out to Kohl's to see if I can get a part-time job. I have been blessed above and beyond what I currently need in the way of income, but I will still need income this summer. I'm hoping that my past experience with the company will get my foot in the door. :) As I told Amos, it would be God who got me the job, but I have to do my part, too.

2) I really like my boyfriend. He is encouraging, comforting, challenging, kind, and patient. Currently he has a headache and is out of commission. :(

3) Two people that I really like are coming to SoCal this weekend! Kat is coming tomorrow, and Todd is speaking in chapel on Monday and Wednesday! Unless I get called to substitute, I'll be at TMC on both of those days.

4) I have a lot of traveling coming up. Amos and I are headed up to Central California for Drew and Michelle's wedding on April 3rd. We're staying at my grandparents' house in the Bay Area and then going even farther north to our friends' church for Easter! The weekend after that, I will be going home for a few days, and Amos will being going to men's retreat with our church. In May, I am going to try to get home for my cousin Magenta's college graduation on the 22nd! The weekend after that, our friends Peter and Heather are getting married in NorCal. (I have a lot of friends getting married that weekend...) So far June seems to be pretty calm, though you never know! I'm going to miss my cousin's family wedding in July (she's already married, but it was a really small ceremony, so this is a bigger celebration) because I'm going to be in India! Ross and Audra's little boy will be born in the end of July/beginning of August, so I'll go see him/them, too! This is getting crazy... :)

Well, the time has come to finish getting ready! Off to conquer the job market!

Exodus 33:15-16

and now what...?

Well, I am done with my long-term substitute position!

Now I have 20+ essays to grade by Friday.
I've already graded 21.

Off I go... :P

This picture was taken at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills on Saturday...Amos and I had a good time...and it was free!!!

Dos

I wanted to title this post "Two," but I looked back at my previous posts and realized that I already had a post titled "Two." And the more I look at the word "two," the more it looks misspelled. However, there is no squiggly red line under it, so I'll just leave it. ;) All that to say, I was going to title this post "Two," but since that was taken, I'll go with "Dos."
Anyway, I am very happy to announce that I have two days/seven periods left at the high school!!! It is very interesting; on the one hand, I am very happy to be leaving. I won't be with my annoying/misbehaving students any more. I won't have to get up at 6:16 every morning. I won't have to spend hours every night writing lesson plans, thinking about students, creating worksheets, and making PowerPoints.
On the other hand, I will miss my students. I really like my sophomore students; we get along really well. Seriously, some of my kids turned an Emily Dickinson poem into a rap, complete with beat-boxing! They are hilarious! I'll also miss getting a nice paycheck every month. I'll miss getting more practice as a teacher.

Thus, I have two more days, and I have mixed feelings. It's a little concerning to be ending my job right now, because I am going on a mission trip in July + I'm losing some of my tutoring kids. However, I have another paycheck coming in April, and God won't forget about me or make mistakes. I'm sure I'll survive. :)

Tie-red

"Tie-red"...That's how Brenda Pickle pronounced tired when she was first starting to read. Now, at age nine, she has the reading level of a college student and apparently reads 400-page books in two days (20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, anyone?).

But that's beside the point.

I survived a high school field trip yesterday, and now I'm tired. But I only have five days left with my students in the classroom. I'm tempted to use this weekend to make cupcakes just for fun or to start a craft project or to clean my room, but I think I'll take a nap instead. Then I'll hit my school stuff hard for part of this afternoon and tomorrow, sprint through the next five days, and finish on Friday with exactly fifty-six essays to grade.

But I'll have made it! I'll have survived! I will not leave the school wearing a straitjacket, escorted by men in white coats. I have not done the best I could, especially in the area of classroom discipline, but I'll have survived and hopefully my students learned something.

But first, a nap.

Ate...no, Eight

Eight more days with my high school students; I think I can make it.

That being said, I'm going to bed! Only teaching three periods tomorrow instead of four, plus a minimum day on Thursday, plus a really loooooooooong field trip on Friday, then pushing through five full days and an IEP until...the end of my assignment!

Please pray that I will have strength to make it through and that I will remember to pray for my students. I wish I had started at the beginning, but I am so bad at it that I often forget.

301

Yes, folks/readers/friends/countrymen/what-have-you, this is my 301st post. :) I meant to make a big deal about my 300th post (I've been planning for a while now), but I accidentally missed it. Oh well, such is the life of Jennica. :)

In other news, as if my ninth grade students don't love me enough for dragging them through the thoroughly depressing Of Mice and Men, I am about to take them on a journey through poetry. I can hear their groans now. Oh wait, they have those groans every day, no matter what I teach them!!! Ha!

What's new.

In other other news, I only have a few weeks left with them. This is both good and bad. Good because I will get more sleep and won't be frustrated every day, bad because I won't get paid and will miss my sophomores.

In other other other news, I am going to go to Disneyland on Saturday for the first time in thirteen and a half years. My students are all shocked that I haven't been since I was ten. None of my students actually know how old I am. This was one of my students' attempts at humor. ;)

Me: I haven't been to Disneyland since I was ten!

--Shocked gasps--

Students: What?!?!

"Sam": So that was like, what, two years ago?

Haha, not quite. ;)

Black kettles and pots

So it's 11:59 pm, and I'm finishing part of a PowerPoint slide on procrastination; I'm going to use it in class tomorrow. Ironic, is it not? ;)

Fun times...

Guess what?! I'm going to India on a mission trip in July! I'll be gone for two weeks. More info to come!!

Yesterday Amos, Luke, Danielle, and I went out to Lancaster to drive on the Musical Road! Grooves were cut into the asphalt so that as you drive the road, you can hear the first little bit of the William Tell Overture! It was so much fun! We drove it at least five times. :)

I'm off to plan more teaching and grade more assignments. Happy Sunday!

Apologies

I guess February is going to be a lean month in the posting department; sorry about that.

I've been spending my time getting better from some flu-type thing, teaching, tutoring, and hanging out with Amos.

I am going to be an aunt in August! I can't remember if I said that on here yet.

I'm hoping to go to India this summer on a mission trip with my church. We shall see if that's a go or not.

I hope you're all doing well! I think I've used enough sentences starting with "I"!

They never told me...

how hard it would be to teach and discipline angry 14 and 15 year-olds.

I'm not a quitter, but sometimes I wish I were.