Spare Me

Yesterday was Preview Day at UIS. My job mainly consists of pointing.
Too bad there's no sign to do that for me.. Poor Justin doesn't know where Preview Day is!
I love Preview Day and my amazing boss :-) Yes, Kathryn reads my blog...

I demonstrate my tour guide skills.
Justin and I got bored.. hence all the pictures.After Preview Day we all went out for Priyanka's Birthday. Our first stop, Fridays. There were so many of us we filled three tables, I'm pretty sure we annoyed people, but it was such a blast!
The really cool part was that my roommate and I got the opportunity to host a prospective student for the night, so she could get a taste of what life is like at UIS. Lauren was so much fun to hang out with and I think she had a good time with us.
Kelli, me, Lauren and Tabatha.
Me and Kevin (my bff) He gave me cheesecake after this picture, good guy.
And then we went bowling at this really crazy place, I think it was called Strike and Spare. It was all black lighted and the balls glowed in the dark. I got a 106, the highest score I've ever gotten! And Tabatha ended up winning anyway. Oh and Kevin got in last, just thought I'd mention that.

Home Suite Home

I'm so so happy to be back in LRH after a long break in New Athens. I really missed my friends and was ready for classes to begin again. I'm most excited about What Is Power? and Playwriting. I've had a lot of reading assigned already and I was very glad to go to the spa today to help me relax. 20 UIS students won the day at the spa where we got massages and hair and make up consols. It was really interesting, I had never been to a spa before, too expensive. The massage felt amazing especially since I was sore from working out at TRAC.

After that some friends came over and played Sing Star, my roommate Danielle got it for Christmas, it is sooooo much fun! You have to match pitch with the song and are ranked at the end. Needless to say I've been somewhat distracted from my studying..Steph and Ryan rock out! I think they're singing "Hit Me Baby One More Time"

Back To School

This week I had the opportunity to return to my old school to observe my favorite teachers, Mrs. Dooley and Mrs. Weible. To be accepted into the teaching program at UIS I need to record 30 hours. So far I've gone two days, it's so funny how similar and yet different it seems to me. The 6th graders are still studying the 7 Wonders of the World (which I proudly remembered).The 8th graders are reading my favorite book, Watership Down. It's so cool to see the teacher's side of learning and being more of a collegue with my former teachers. A lot of them have left since my graduation, but its fun to catch up with the ones that are still around.

Classes at UIS will resume very soon, and I've already got homework (which I'm already procrastinating on). I'm excited to see everyone again and to be back in LRH. This break I did get to visit a lot of my friends from UIS, that was so awesome getting to just chill without worrying about homework or meetings. Ahh, enjoy it while it lasts, less than one more week!