Something new for me on thanksgiving. It was the first time that I have not been around my family which was a little weird. I talked to them on the phone but still a little weird. The other new thing for me was that I cooked thanksgiving dinner. I made the turkey which I think turned out to be awesome, I’m still eating leftovers, creamed corn, and a jello salad. Jill mad the the mashed potatoes and gravy while Pat brought a lettuce salad and pumpkin pie. I think people enjoyed it because everyone had seconds which I was thankful for.
The Wednesday before thanksgiving I started my new job working at the Callaway Boys and Girls Club. I was just supossed to go through orientation but my boss had me work a full day which ment I got Holiday Pay for Thursday and Friday. The tribe out here is so giving. I also worked Saturday which gave me a pretty good first week with only working 4 days. The jobis only 25 hours a week so I’m in the process of still looking for something to help get the extra hours to be working full time. Jill found a position at the Menards in town to be an early morning stocker from 5-9 which would be ok I guess even though I hate getting up early. I would be able to come home and take a litle nap since I don’t hav etoat the Boys and Girls Club until 3 in the afternoon. haha.
Today I am watching my little neice Kaydence from upstairs while went Christmas shopping. We watched the Emperor’s New Groove and now she is watching a Barbie movie which I wasn’t really into so I decided to write a little not instead. She keeps asking when I’m going to come watch with here so I guess I’ll join her for a little while. Love it. haha.
The weather the past couple of weeks has been incredible out here. I was under the understanding that it would already be freezing with lots of snow on the ground by this point. Even though we have had a couple of snowy spells starting the first week of October the snow is gone and it has been very nice out here lately 50’s and sunny.
The job hunt is still going on. I found out today that I did not get the coaching position that I had hoped for. It was a varsity position at Waubun High School. They did offer some reffing opportunities at the middle school level if i wished. haha doubt it but maybe. I had an interview for a boys and girls club yesterday so we’ll have to wait and see if that turns up. I talked with a temp agency today as well and they said that they have nothing available at the moment so we shall see if anything ything comes open for me.
Another piece of bad news that I just recieved is that the federal government is looking to see if everyone who received funding from Oregon State during the master’s program is doing what they are supposed to be doing. I don’t know what I’m going to do since I’m not teaching my second year. I hope it will be ok because I couldn’t find a job. I hope so at least.
Well I applied to 6 more positions last week and have not heard anything from any of them. It is starting to get really frustrating. I have found 3 more positions that I am currently printing of the applications for and will send them in tomorrow. Not having anything to do all day is starting to get old. There is stuff to do on the house still but it is stuff that I don’t feel comfortable doing by myself. Like tiling the bath tube. I might be be finishing it tomorrow by myself but there are a couple prep pieces that need to be placed that I don’t want to mess up so I’ll just wait until the boss comes home. Well that is about all that is happening with me.
Jill was just offered more hours at work if she wants them so my wife is working full-time and going to school full-time while I am being a stay at home dad with no kids. Awesome. Love it.
It has been a long time since I’ve wrote anything and this was mostly because of my busy life as a potato harvester. I drove truck for potato harvest which is one of the largest potato harvests in the world. Total there were 14 crews with 12 trucks in each crew running about 20-22 days. The days started anywhere from 4-6 in the morning. It wasn’t a lot lot of fun waking up at 2:00 am to go drive truck. It wasn’t all that long ago I wouldn’t have even been in bed at that time. It wasn’t to bad of a job though. There was enough going on that you had couldn’t get really tired. Having to pay attention to the harvester in the field to make sure you had the truck in the right spot to not overflow and spill all the potatoes as you move while loading. Because it was my first time ever driving a truck (a 9 speed) i had to focus a lot more while driving and carrying 70,000 pounds takes a lot more concentration on slowing down and turning safely.  The only time I got tired was waiting to get unloaded but then I had my coffee so was ok. We would work until around 7:30 so days got to be pretty long by that point.
Potato harvest is over thank goodness and we have finally moved into our place. Living with Jon and Pat was fine but it sure is nice having our own place to go to and relax. We still have some work to be done in it but it is livable. We need to finish the tile around the bathtub. We can’t take showers in it yet but we go upstairs to shower. That is kind of a pain but worth it to have our own place.
Since potato harvest is over I don’t have a job which is a little discouraging because I’ve applied to I don’t know how many positions, 20+ I’m guessing and only 1 interview from all of that. I haven’t heard anything from that interview yet either and that was 2 weeks ago so it’s not looking promising. I’m applying to a few more positions today so I guess we’ll see what happens.
Well its been a long time since I’ve worked and been this bored while doing it. Don’t get me wrong I’m very thankful for the job but it is very boring. Don’t tell my wife I said its boring she got mad at me last night when I said it after my 1st day working only 4 hours because she thought her dad and brother Jesse would feel hurt. They might but Jesse is the first person who told me it was a boring job. He said he used to have to do and is glad than he has moved on from it. Here is my job down at the shavings mill.
 1st I watch these wood shavings to make sure they continue to move up the conveyor belt on to the next conveyor belt.  If I see any large peices of wood I need to pick them off so they won’t plug up the next conveyor belt. After I make sure the next conveyor belt take the shavings into the dryer I have to make sure that the temperature stays at a certain level, not to hot and not to cold. Lastly I need to make sure that the last conveyor belt continues to move the shavings into the shed. Very exciting stuff. Today the chain came off the 1st conveyor belt 3 times, the second conveyor belt got plugged twice and the last conveyor belt stopped 3 times. Makes my day exciting. The good news was though after 6 hours we got our first break and were done for the day because we ran out of fuel. Lovely.
In other news the sheetrock is up on the walls. It took me a few days to go and finish it after nearly cutting a chunk of my finger off with the blade last friday. Still hurts pretty badly but I can tell that it is healing. Everything has been taped and mudded once and most things have their second coat of mud on them. I am hoping that Delmar will come back tomorrow night and help finish the rest of the mudding so we can texture this weekend and paint next week. We are getting pretty close to being moved in. Sort of.Â
We are doing ok living with Jon and Pat but we are getting ready to have our own space to just relax and be us. I don’t feel comfortable relaxing and vegging out on their couch and changing the channel to um well I don’t know ESPN with them always around because I know they don’t watch it. I think I’ve watched Sportcenter 5 times since I’ve been here. I’m goin through withdrawls. That is my drug. A good one I think.
 We had a softball game tonight and I went 4-4. Meaning I hit everytime I got up to bat for those of you who don’t know. Haha probably for you mama. This is my blog so I can brag about myself a little bit so I’ll do it a little more.  My first plate appearance the bases were loaded and I hit a Grand Salami Time. Dad might be the only who gets that reference. Go Mariners. I won’t talk about the 2 errors that I made in the field. Not a big deal don’t worry about it. Strawberry Lake Mennonite won 18-14 over the church Jesse pastors, can’t remember the name. Jesse got really mad on time so funny. Church league softball and the one pastor is throwing his glove on the ground in anger. Haha still funny.
 Well its later here and I’m going to bed. I’ll write more later, who knows when.
 Love and miss everyone who is reading this, if anyone is.
So last night about 9:30 I’m sitting in Jake and Nicole’s house watching tv and I can see this flashing going on outside around the shades and I hear a banging noise every once in a while. After about 5 minutes I decide to go and look out the sliding glass door who is out there. Turns out it was no one execpt mother nature herself, and she was not happy. It turned out to be one of the most amazing thunder storms I’ve every seen. Dad you would have loved it, Mom not so much. It lasted for a couple of hours. At one point when I was looking out the door with all of the lights turned off the electricity went out and as this bolt lit up the sky for about 5 seconds. It was so crazy because there are a lot of trees around their house and they were outlined by the sky. It was awesome and a little spooky at the same time. I sat down and started crying right there. Haha just kidding. The thing of it was, I was there all by myself. Jill and Nicole were at a women’s thing in Fargo and Jake had taken the kids to the church faimily camp out. So I sat there in the dark not knowing where anything is really in there house, at least candles or flashlights or anything. I couldn’t have walked back to Jon and Pat’s but it was raining so hard you could see it coming down in sheets during the major flashes. So I sat and listened and enjoyed the silence for about an hour until the electricity came back on and the rain stopped. I decided to walk back home and it was a good thing because it wasn’t long until round 2 started. I thought it was over but this morning showed ruond 3 and 4. It is poring down rain right now (like 1996 Issac Lake rain in your face hard), if you missed it you don’t want to know, and we are supposed to go to the camp out this afternoon. I hope we decide not to go. I really don’t want to be went all night.Â
Yesterday Jill and I got all of the sheetrock moved inside which we where going as fast as we could because you could just feel in the air that it was coming. Stupid humidity. I hate it. I got some more sheetrock up yesterday. I work on it for about 10 hours. The only parts left are half of the bathroom, not much, and the kitchen and hallway which will go quick because there are really not many angles and full sheets will be able to go up. I’m so ready to move in and have our own space. Its fine living with Jon and Pat right now but we miss having our own space to go and relax and be away from everyone. That was why I was at Jake and Nicole’s last night. Needed some alone time.
 Well guess I should get ready to go wet camping.
Well so far we have been in Minnesota for 1 week. It has gone really well here so far except basically we are still homeless. There is a lot more work to be done before our house will be ready to move into. Last night about 7 guys from the church came over and we got a lot of the sheetrock put up on the ceiling. There is only one room left for the ceiling to be finished and about half of the walls so it is coming along but is taking a while. Today Jill, Nicole (the sister-in-law we are living with) helped me put up some of the wall sheetrock which is nice that I can do something while Jake is gone at work during the day. We didn’t get to work on the house tonight though because it was their (Jake and Nicole) son’s (Emeric) stroll for epilepsy. He is such a sweet thing but was not having a good day today. One of his other conditions besides epilepsy doesn’t allow him to control his temperature very well and it was really hot and humid today. So being outside during the heat is a major stuggle for him. He is a cooling vest that he wears that we have to keep filling with cold water but it was just to hot for that to help much. With his condition it is going to make our house very cool the rest of the summer and warm in the winter. They have a great AC and Heater system. The floors, even of the basement, are heated which I am going to greatly enjoy. So if anyone is interested about coming and visiting in the winter at least you will have a warm place to stay. Don’t come for at least another couple weeks so we can get the house finished.
 Also I am still currently unemployed which is ok at the moment so I can work on the house more but it is not looking very promising. Jill just got hired at a Job in Fargo working 4 days a week doing a lot of what she did at her old job at least with the juvenile department. I did just find another job to apply to as a paraprofessional working with 4-6 graders who need help with reading and math. I know I’m not the best reader but I think I can read at that level though. Also, connected with it is assistan basketball coach so we’ll see what happens.
Anyway I’m tired from the work and stroll tonight so I’m off today. Hope all is well in my real HOME STATE.
>компютри втора употребаght was my last official class at OSU for this year. It feels really good to be done with that but I still got a few things to do before completely being done. Tonight we had to present one of our major projects (a curriculum development) to a mack school board. It went pretty well but I’m glad that is over. The only work I have left to do is finish my work sample and make a poster to present next Monday during my finals period. My final is the presentation so it shouldn’t be do bad. I just need to finish that work.
Last Friday was a pretty good day teaching for me. It was out schools picnic. All classes were crammed into the morning and then we headed out to the football stadium for some fun. We had burgers and then a bunch of activities. I helped out at the slip and slide. It took a little while for kids to come over but once they started it was pretty fun. Spraying them as they came down was pretty funny. It wasn’t the warmest day which made it even funnier because to start they didn’t like the cold water but like most kids once wet it doesn’t matter any more. I also participated against one of the students in a jousting activity. It was like on the American Gladiators where they have the sticks and trying to knock your opponent off a stand. One of my freshman students challenged me. He told me he was 4-0 and had already beat one teacher. I was reluctant that the beginning but decided to take the challenge. He is a pretty solid kid and rocked me in the head right off the start. I don’t know how I kept my balance from that and the next hit but I did and then beat him down. I beat him 3 straight times and it wasn’t even close. I love beating up on my students. Haha. Actually he is one of my favorite students so it was a lot of fun.
Today sucked pretty bad at school. The students are so checked out right now and they don’t want to do anything you ask. I think I am going to hate this part of every year but its worse when I’m just a student teacher. They know the difference and don’t want to listen to anything I say. I am so done with my teaching but I have to remember that I only have 12 more periods, 4 days. I so can’t wait. диваниraman amplifier
I only have 9 days left to teach 2 weeks from tomorrow and everything has to be turned in. That everything is a lot of things though. I have three projects to finish in that time along so still a lot to do but I can see the finish line. This long weekend so far has been really good. I haven’t done much homework which has been really nice. I decided to take a few days of and relax, hang out with my friends and family a little bit and not worry about my homework. It has felt really good to not think about. Today I did a little homework revising my portfolio. I am meeting with one of my cohort members tomorrow morning to finish a project and hopefully get closer to finishing another project. The day off from school will be nice and needed.
School last week was good but I did have to do a little disciplinary action towards a few students. They thought they could leave class without letting me noticing and when I saw them after school I asked them to come in and talk to me and my cooperating teacher. When they refused because they think I wouldn’t do anything I guess I had to write them up. Most likely they will receive a Saturday school which is to bad for them because it looks like next Saturday is going to be pretty nice. Don’t mess with big bad Baker. haha. Anyway back to relaxing and hanging out with friends. Happy Memorial Day.
I am so tired of going to classes and I am getting really tired of teaching right now as well. I don’t think its the teaching aspect but all of the work and simply being tired of anything. I am so checked out on my school work and I am having a hard time sitting down and planning lessons. When I don’t have homework and a three hour class to go to in the evening I think will help change my attitude around. Also being drained all year from so much work and crap isn’t making these last few weeks very enjoyable either. I can’t wait until i have my own classes, my own students and they know my rules and expectations. I am enjoying my high school experience but the students compare me a lot to their teacher, who is awesome. I have to remind myself that I am a different teacher and don’t listen to what they say about stuff. Most of the students are really good. Its those that don’t want to do what I ask of them and say that they could get away with it before. I just simply tell well I’m not her and if you don’t like, sorry suckers. haha. It is pretty funny being sarcastic with them. I still haven’t heard anything about a job yet. I’m not get frustrated yet but if I don’t hear something soon I might a little bit. Later. I’m going to bed I think.