Losing Touch

Do you ever think about all of the people that you've completely lost touch with?  Those who you used to see each and every day.  The classmates with whom you ate lunch with every day in high school or a specific group of friends that you would often spend the weekends with.  The people who you were on numerous clubs or sports or organizations with. Thanks to the internet and social networks, some of these people aren't completely lost in our memories, reappearing periodically on our Facebook or Twitter news feeds.  Yet others, those who we didn't happen to "friend" on Facebook years ago, those who, for all we know, could have fallen off the face of the earth, are a complete and utter mystery.  What are these classmates/friends/acquaintances/teammates doing with their lives now-a-days?  Do they have jobs? Husbands/wives? Maybe even at this point in our lives, children of their own?  It's sort of sad that you can be so close to someone for a semester, a year, or even years and years, and then completely lose all relations and communications with them.  Sometimes I wonder what it would be like if these people didn't gradually (or abruptly, I suppose) fade away in my life.  Unless they somehow reappear in it, I'll never know. 

It's about to downpour

I really want to work on writing my novel, but it sounds like too much thinking.
I really want to scrapbook, but it sounds like too much time and effort. 
I really want to do stuff to prepare for student teaching, but I have no idea what I could even do. 

So instead I'll just eat and workout and go to work at Dairy Queen and waste my free time with mindless activities such as Pinterest and Facebook and unnecessary shopping trips because, well, I'm on summer vacation and I guess that I deserve a break.

BUT that problem is that I feel like I can't take a break and be unproductive.  Which is why I've also been doing a lot of cleaning and organizing and dishes (so my dad doesn't have to clean them like he always does).  

This summer just feels weird. And different. And confusing (so far at least).  Then again, it's only Monday of week #2 of summer vacation.  I can't wait until Alyssa finally comes home from school so she can partake in these random shopping excursions with me. 

HAPPY =]

I have SO MUCH great news to share with you, my blogger friends! Most Importantly, I finally heard back from Fremd High School and I will officially be student teaching there in both English and Spanish classes in the fall. YES! I am so thankful that I have this amazing opportunity to do both English and Spanish because I really didn't think that it would happen.  I received the e-mail about this yesterday after I got back from the petting zoo on the quad.  There were goats, a llama, ducks, a bunny, a donkey, etc. It was awesome! I took a lot of great selfie photos with the llama since he (or she) was being very cooperative during our photo sesh.

Not only was yesterday a joyous day, filled with good news and petting zoos, but today was pretty awesome as well.  In the morning, I ran for the first time in 3 WHOLE MONTHS. Okay, it was 5 minutes on the treadmill but at least it was something.  The doctor told me I can do approximately a quarter mile for the entire first week It's going to be very, very hard not to do more than that. It's okay though, I'll take what I can get.  Then, on my bike ride back to my apartment from the rec., I found a $5 bill on the ground. Score! 

Before my classes started for the day, I went to pick up the certificate that I received for my hard-work and dedication to the Spanish Honors Society, Sigma Delta Pi.  It was all official and fancy and had a large gold border.  I only had three classes today as opposed to my usual four, in which I turned in my 25 page senior seminar paper and my ginormous teaching portfolio for my teaching of writing class.

So now I am officially done with taking classes as a college student (so crazy!) and on summer vacation.  It's pretty hard to believe.  I am so relieved and happy and thankful that everything seems to be falling into place for me. Oh, and here's one of my llama selfies. Enjoy.