Teaching, Traveling, and Trying to Keep it Together

Originally, I thought that I should have a set time to blog. Maybe once a week, every Sunday, or something like that. However, I doubt I would actually stick to that sooooo enjoy my random and irregular blogs whenever they pop up! Also, I apologize if you've been through my Facebook album and already seen some of this. I think once school really gets started these posts will be more directly related to my student teaching and my Facebook album more the travel (since I won't have many photos I can post from school online). And if you haven't checked out my Facebook album make sure you do that! I have a lot more pictures on there and usually post caption descriptions as well. There's a link in the sidebar if we aren't already friends. Let's see, last time I posted was right after I got here. Quite a bit has happened since then, but I'll try to stick to the more important ones and be brief. On Sunday we met Devina's teacher and she took us to an Italian...

It's 20:32 on Saturday night as I sit down to write this. I've had about 9 hours of sleep in the last three days. I am doing all I can to stay up and hopefully prevent jet lag. The last few days have been a bit of a whirlwind, but I am in Germany and I am ready to tackle this crazy adventure! Did it take me three days to get here? Nope. So why have I slept so little? Well you see, I was determined to finish a book series before coming here. I stayed up all night Wednesday to do so and went to bed around 7 AM and got up about 3 and half hours later. Thursday I said goodbye to Cane's with my last order of delicious chicken strips and Cane's sauce for the next four months. Then Thursday night my aunt put together the cutest little going away dinner. Some photos from the photo booth And, of course, I did not actually manage to pack until Thursday night and did not finish until 1:30. I never really sleep well before a trip, too nervous/excited. So it was a fitful r...