Here today, gone toMaui...

This last weekend I was in Maui and it was much needed! My roommate Chrissy and I and our friend Doug left Friday evening and had a relaxing night in Maui. The next day we went to Lahaina and shopped (well, Chrissy and I shopped, and Doug waited outside). It was such a wonderful day of no stress and good times. That evening we met up with our friend Marrissa who lives in Maui and we all had dinner together at Stellablues. The next day was the Maui Oceanfront Marathon, which was the whole purpose of the trip (besides shopping!) We got up at 430am and took Doug to the start in Wailea. After we saw him off, Chrissy and I went back to bed! We woke up a couple of hours later and drove to Lahaina. We were expecting to have plenty time there to see Doug cross the finish, but he ran faster than we expected and barely made it there in time! His time was 3hr28min! And he came in 8th place overall! We were so proud of him! After hanging around for a couple of hours we made our way back to Kihei and packed up and headed to the airport. It was a great weekend!

The next couple of weeks...

Report cards go home tomorrow, so as I sit by my computer waiting for the pages to print I think this would be an opportune time to give you all an update!

A couple of friends and myself are leaving for Maui on Friday, and I am VERY exctied about that! One of them is running in the marathon there, and the other two of us are going to cheer him on! It will be nice to go back to Maui, even though I was just there back in September. The last time I was there my friend and I tried to go to this Indian food restaraunt, but it was being remodeled. Hopefully now it is open and we can go eat there! I am also looking forward to hanging out in Lahaina and going to the LUSH store while our friend is running the race.

In a couple more weeks I will be going to Oahu with my youth group for a weekend long retreat. I am really looking for to that too. I am still leading worship at the youth group and I will be doing it at the retreat as well. So within 2 weeks I will be on three different islands! Very exciting!

School has been going well, though I can't believe this is only my thrid week back since vacaction... it feels like much longer. I have a great group of kids that I work with and as frustrating as they can be at times, they are also very entertaining. For example, one of my boys drew in his journal all these little squiggles and scribbles. I thought they looked like the writing from the cube on transformers so I asked him what it was. He said it was from transformers and that it was in his mind! Ha! Man, I love my job sometimes.

Furlough Fun?

Today is yet another furlough Friday and not only that it is also the start of a four day weekend. My day has been very productive so far... I have already done one load of laundry and finished writing comments for all my report cards... and it isn't even 11am yet! I also have some "homework" of my own that I have will probably work on today. I started taking a PD (professional development) course yesterday, so I have a few chapters to read and a reflection to write.
My roommates and some friends are going to Mauna Kea tomorrow, and for a short bit I was thinking about going with them, but I have decided to take a miss because I have had a cold all week, and I really don't think being in the cold is a good idea! I don't mind missing out though, because now I can play bass this weekend at church, which in my opinion is way more fun :)

Quick Update

It was made apparent to me a couple weeks ago that the last time that I posted a blog was at the beginning of the school year. So, I figured that it is more than over due for an update!
I just got back from Christmas vacation on Saturday, I had spent the previous 2 weeks in RoPo visting the fam. I have plenty of pictures of all my adventures over the two weeks that I have posted on facebook is you are interested on seeing any.
I am currently living in a house with 3 other girls, who are all teachers themselves. They however are private school teachers, so I don't work with any of them.
I just got myself a Wii yesterday with some gift cards I got for Christmas. I took the Wii fitness test and my age is 73! You can only take it once a day, so you can guess what the first thing I am going to do when I get home is, huh!
I also got a new car a couple of months ago. My lumina died on me :( plus the ac didn't work any more, so it was time to get something a little bit more appropriate for Hawaii living! I got a 2004 Toyota Prius, and I love it! The AC is amazing, among other things!
Well, that's a quick update of the last semester. Hopefully this following semester I will keep it up better!