Missions Trip

Today after the church service there was a meeting about an Missions oppurtunity in the Dominican Republic working to build a medical centre for an orphanage and working in the orphanage for anybody in our church who is high school age or older. I think it would be an excellant oppertunity and Pete Wright made sure to state that only those who were active in helping around the church are allowed to go. I was thankful for this because I have a feeling many people are interested because its in the tropics. I wish I could go but people thinks it will cost about 1500-2000 dollars and I don't think I could afford that. A couple of us were thinking that we could fundraise enough that we won't have to pay to much but I don't know how that will work out. I hope all goes well with the planning though!

New Classroom

So, as I have written before I am now offically an teaching assistant at Elves. I started last monday and have been introduced to Cathy (the teacher in the classroom), Ana, Debbie, and Brenda (all teaching assistants like me), and many other people including a girl who I new from my previous job at the tree farm. All week we have been busy trying to get the classroom ready for Tuesday when the children come in, I'm so nervous about meeting them, I've been reading files on them and they don't seem that bad. I have been told that this classroom has had reports of lice throughout the whole last year but the teachers say that as long as you have your hair tied back and use hairspray I won't get it.... I'm going out to buy hairspray now :-P

These are my pictures of one of my classrooms. This one is for the higher functioning students ready for kindergarden and the other classroom is for kindergarden age students who aren't quite ready for kindergarden yet.

Sorry, they may not be too clear I just took them with my cell phone and the classroom has not been decorated or cleaned yet.

On another note, last monday Michelle and I delivered fliers with some people from church. We are hosting a soap box derby on the road in front of our church for all the people in the neighbourhood and our church. Its going to be fun. Its our fourth one and they are always fun.

Note: In case you hadn't noticed this is my first attempt with the pictures on my blog and I hope they turn out :-)

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Many things have happened over this weekend so I'm putting them in point form.

1) We have the BIG baseball tournment in Edmonton yesterday and I am happy say that Edmonton won by quite a bit. It ended up being loads of fun even though a bunch of the guys had to leave in the middle of the game to go play football. The weather was perfect to be playing and I forgot to wear sunscreen so now I'm burnt to crisp. After a couple of us went to the pool to cool off and then we watched Toy Story 2.

2) Yesterday and today they are redoing the roads in front of our house so the road has been blocked off in certain places. Right now asI write they are directly in front of our house so I hope they finish before its time to head to church

3) Today as Shauna and I were playing a card game Harley kept bugging us to play with us, or so I thought, when I looked down to grab his toy to throw it for him I saw they Harley had in fact used his super sweet hunting skills to kill a little mouse. This mouse has been taunting Harley for the last little while and he has been searching for it all weekend. Thanks Harley!

4) Yesterday I found out that Jenny is going to be the other Sunday school teacher with me and this year I get some of the cutest children in my class. It makes me so excited. I can't wait to decorate my class for sunday school.

So Thats all I have to say for right now. I'm starting my new job tomorrow so we will see how that goes

A Busy Day

So this morning started off on a very good note. I had an interview with the school and they said that they would most likely hire me, which was a relief to hear because I was so nervous. The principal of the school was very nice and told me that even though I was the first person she interviewed she was certain I would get the job and told me that my first day would be monday, its kind of a staff bonding day and training. I am going to be learning many new things at this job like lifts and transfers (which I already know how to do due to my schooling), how to do tube feedings and stuff like that. I am super stoked. I am going to be helping teaching 2 to 5 year olds so its a good age.

On Saturday I have another interview with the physio clinic as the receptionist for the evening, I'm not quite sure how that is going to work out though because I would have to start work after 4. Hopefully it will all work out because I think it will be an experience to work there.

I finally have my bed back!!! We moved my bed down on the main floor so my mom wouldn't have to scale the stairs everytime she had to go to bed and since then I have been sleeping on my floor in my bedroom or in the basement or on the trampoline or crashing on the couch, and even though I have been sleeping alright and have no complaints I am thankful that my mom is well enough she can go upstairs and I can have my bedroom back.

And last but not least, we have finished watching season 6 of Little House on the Prairie and I think that it has been my favorite season yet. Its the season the Laura meets and gets engaged to Almonzo and after watching it it puts a smile on my face that lasts a long long time. I thinks that Little House on the Prairie has become my all time favorite TV show.

So I have written a lot and I hope you haven't fallen asleep before finishing reading toady's entry!! Later

Cheers for the Classifieds

This morning when I was doing my daily looking through the classifieds this ad seemed to just pop right out of the page;

ELVES SPECIAL Needs Society requires F/T Teaching Assistants and P/T relief Teaching Assistants. Exp. w.medically-fragile special needs pre-school children.

I got so excited because I have really wanted to work with special needs children so I headed over there as soon as possible and before I even got home the principle at the had called my house to set up an interview. This has come at the perfect time because I was really getting down about not being able to find a job. So I now have an interview for Thursday and am super excited. I really hope I get the job.

Trial Run

So this is my first ever attempt at a blog and i'm not sure how awesome its going to be. I have been reading a lot of blogs lately and have finally had the inspiration to try it for myself. Hopefully i will be able to update this blog regularly and but I might need some people to remind me. So feel free to comment on any of my posts, it would be greatly appreciated so it doesn't feel like I'm writing to myself. Thanks Y'all. Later