Tengo un trabajo!!!!

For those of you who don't speak Spanish, I said, "I have a job!" A real, teaching job! A high school Spanish teacher in town this last week, decided she was over teaching, got an offer to be an interpreter and up and quit! With the connections and relationships I've built in this town, I was offered the job on Wednesday morning because of the awesome recommendations from mentors of mine! I have 2 blocks of Spanish 1 and 1 block of Spanish 5. I basically had 2 days (this weekend) to organize my classroom and lesson plan since I had to wait to see where she ended up on Friday! I'm super nervous, excited and happy to finally have a classroom that is somewhat my own (she left most of her stuff which is great since I have hardly anything). I know it won't be easy, but I'm leaning on God's strength, my training and experience to get me through! I just hope the kids will like me! I'm going to have to get used ot be referred to as "Senora Hendrix"!

To-Do List Update

A few weeks ago I started a to-do list in the next year-ish . So far it's going well. I've started training for a half marathon, it's the Dirty Half in Bend June 13th. 1a. was covered when my dad gave me his old guitar this weekend while we were in Cali for my grandpa's memorial/funeral...

I finished "The Lost Symbol" by Dan Brown and I DEFINITELY recommend it! It was a really detailed, hard to put down novel...warning though, I definitely had a difficult time going to bed when I knew that I could be reading the book. So #5 is starting off well. Also, I have been blogging at least once a week, so, so far so good on #9!

That's it for now, but pretty good I think, 4 out of 17!

As for this weekend, my 90 year old grandpa, my dad's dad, passed away a week and a half ago, so we drove down this last Thursday to be there for the memorial. It's nice to know that he isn't in pain any more...

Today is Valentine's Day and Evan and I spent it in the car for 7.5 hours and then poor Evan had to go to work for inventory until 4 in the morning tomorrow...so we are celebrating Valentine's Day tomorrow instead.

But to everyone else, Happy Valentine's Day!

My Very Own Library

For anyone who has ever been to our house, one of the first things they say is usually something like, "Wow, you have a ton of books"! I usually respond with, "You haven't seen our office yet"! With that said, I love books. I could literally spend an entire day in Barnes and Noble then do the same thing the next day. I just love all the knowledge, stories and newness inside every fresh smelling cover. I also was an English and Spanish major in college which left me with enough books for almost anyone's lifetime. However, because of this "minor" obsession with books, it causes me to buy countless numbers of books to fill up my shelves, but they don't always get read! Or I end up reading newer books I bought forgetting about all the other books I already haven't read. So as part of my new list of things to do in the next year-ish, one of them is to start cracking the pages of all these books I have! I'm going to make a list and cross them off and possibly review each of them as I complete them. I very much thrive under lists; they create motivation that I can't always generate without them. So here we go! I don't even know how many I have, not counting all the books that I've already read and want to read again, but I'll save that for a later post!

1. Lost Symbol- Dan Brown
2. Say You're One of Them- Ewem Akpan (I've started this one at least)
3. Amazing Grace- Jonathon Kozol
4. This Beautiful Mess- Rick McKinley
5. Sarah's Key- Tatiana de Rosnay
6. Letters to a Young Teacher-Jonathon Kozol
7. Redeeming Love- Francine Ribers
8. Angela's Ashes- Frank McCourt
9. Teacher Man- Frank McCourt
10. Snow Falling on Cedars- David Guterson
11. Reading Like a Writer- Francine Prose
12. The Glass Castle- JeannetteWalls
13. My Antonia- Willa Cather
14. 90 Minutes in Heaven- Don Piper
15. Velvet Elvis- Rob Bell

Well that's it! It's not quite as many as I thought, but it doesn't include the list of books I still want to read that I DON'T own, but probably will. Well I'm off to start working on this list!

I'm starting with...