El castillo

Winter in MN

Eze and I went to explore Minniehaha waterfall. Mud, meltin water = fun!

El castillo .2

Spring is in the air!
I am sure that you have heard about the 1st time home buyer tax credit, if not, if you are a 1st time home buyer you get a kick butt $8,000 basically. This April, yes the 30th I get to take advantage of that when I close on my 1st home, yippee! It is in Crystal, MN, in a unique location, it happens to be situated right next to my grandparent’s home. It’s on a whopping .62 acre lot; I can’t wait to play outside at my new home. I’ll make sure to let everyone know when the house warming party is 

X-mas

Eze with our first X-Mas tree. Massive, right?

Spring break, what a wonderful invention; it gives one time to catch up on everything! So here I am updating by blog. It has been a while, since July 2009. Apparently when really exciting fun things happen they are blog worthy, and I haven’t had much of the blog worthy stuff until now.

After teaching 3 quarters at Groveland Elementary School, in Minnetonka, MN, I mean getting my capabilities tested to the max; I have some time to relax. My 1st year teaching has been amazing! I have 26 3rd graders that I get to say ‘buenos dias’ to every week day. They are fabulous. Our day starts in Spanish, and finished in Spanish. It was quite comical, my first month on the job the kids were still easing into the target language, one of my students, Brynn, didn’t know a key word for a conversation. She wanted to tell the reading specialist, who is wonderful, sorry about your husband passing away, or in 3rd grader words, sorry to hear your husband died. She knew all the words is Spanish accept the verb ‘to die’ so, what did she do, she acted it out, sliding her finger across the front of her neck, as if it were a knife and making a screeching noise. Ahhh the joys of immersion.