So beautiful

Can't Help Falling In Love (Ingrid Michaelson/Elvis Presley cover)

I wish I had a voice like this. 

Enjoy! 

Persistence

As I was stumbling I came across this and thought it would be nice to post:

Some words of inspiration that we all need once in a while

happy new year?

It's January,

haven't posted in forever. All my blog posts are about how I haven't posted in forever. I'm like a broken record. I'd love to say that I'll commit to writing but that's a lie, so I won't. I can say that I'll try.

It's 1:30am currently and I should probably get to bed.

Just wanted to post something quickly. Thought I'd leave you with a funny but true image :)

I hate it when people tell me it's wrong to put the oxford comma.

Movember

Good afternoon!

I decided to come back to the blogging world!.. I know I know I'm not very good at keep up with this blog. My excuse this time is stage!!! It's taken over my life! I've been so busy with creating lessons and planning for the term. Reports cards are now slowly creeping up and I need grades so I've been making tests left and right! If I'm not making them, I'm correcting them. It's quite hectic, but I actually enjoy correcting them. It's really an amazing feeling when you see how the kids did and if they really understood what you taught them. It's great! On the other hand when you see those that struggled with it you always doubt yourself and wonder if you could have done more to help them understand but I guess it's normal, you can't win 'em all. I know I tried my best and that's what matters. I really try to relate everything to them and make each lesson as fun as possible.

It's so crazy how time flies I started end of August and we're already going into the second week of November! I'm done in less than a month and after looking at my calendar I really only have 16 teaching days left (not counting the ped days). THAT'S NOTHING! And I really just began my language arts unit. I'm hoping I can finish it in time before I leave but realistically I don't think it'll be possible. I'm actually gonna miss those little brats of mine! Although I'm extremely excited to have a little over a month off of school. It's going to be fantastic and stress free! Going back to work isn't gonna be so great but at least I'll have money....and money means CHRISTMAS SHOPPING!!! I love love love love Christmas!

I'm so excited for this year yay!!! It's going to be awesome! This is the best time of year :)

Oh, and I haven't mentioned anything about my blog title...movember! So I'm sure you've seen a lot of pedophile look-a-like men walking around everywhere but do not fret it's for a good cause and only lasts for the month of November. Support movember and tell any men in your life to start growing their moustaches and support this good cause to raise awareness for prostate cancer. So join the movember movement!

With that I end my break time and I'll leave you with some photos from my stage:

Here's the t-shirts I had them make at the beginning of the year :) They brought magazines and stuck things that they liked to it.

Here's my little desk:

This is our classroom set up:

And yeah that's about it so far :)

Joys of Being a Teacher

So I started my stage a few weeks ago and I've been so caught up in it all that I haven't had time to do much of anything. I've been lesson planning and organizing and doing little assignments for my portfolio. I find myself getting tired at 8pm and crashing by latest 11pm (And that's pushing it). If you know me, I usually can't sleep till 3-4am so this is a completely different side that I'm not used to at all!!

Anyway this is just a quick post I'm doing. I'm drinking my tea before bed since I've had a bit of a scratchy throat for these past couple of days. I'm hoping it doesn't progress into anything worse. I don't have any knew photos other than stuff from my classroom hehe. I'll be posting some others soon! I just wanted to say can't wait for the new florence and the machine album. And I'm super excited for bombay bicycle club and two door cinema club Friday :))

I leave you with two songs:

and

Change

The help:

Read it. Watch it. Love it.

Just finished watching the movie and it was well done I must say. They stuck to the book for the most part. I enjoyed it and I think most people would. It's scary to think that this kind of treatment and these stories did exist and it hasn't even been that long ago. Even though the stories are not based on true events, these things did happen. It just boggles my mind to think that people were actually defined and judged based on the color of their skin. It's sickening and sadly there are racist people like that today. As cliche as this sounds the world really does need love.

Anyway, it's getting late and I'm passing out so I will leave you with the trailer. Also, I haven't forgotten about my photos. I will be uploading them soon. And I was recently looking at past blog posts and realized that i neglected my bucket list...so I will continue that as well...maybe in my next post (:

Why don't you be the writer...

So, it's a friday night...or to be technical, early saturday morning and I'm feeling quite disoriented. I keep thinking that it's saturday and the weekend is almost over, when really it's only just begun. I'm just laying in bed and currently listening to Ellie Goulding and I've realized how my musical taste has expanded over the years. I would have never bothered to listen to anything remotely close to "electro" and now I find myself embracing it..in small strides. I think I've become more appreciative of music in general, whereas before I was more close minded when it came to music.

Just a random thought of the day. Check this out:

I try out a smile and I aim it at you

I wish I could sing. It's such a beautiful talent. But I'm wondering: if I could actually sing would I use my talent or hide it. It's always easier to assume what if but being confronted with a 'what if' situation I probably wouldn't do as I think I would. If I could sing what are the chances that I would actually sing besides in the privacy of my own room. Everyone is harder on themselves, so would I even think I have an amazing voice if I did? I guess I'll never know. Everyone will just have to deal with my off-tune singing attempts.

I hear in my mind all of this music

I haven't posted a blog in over year.. I want to try keeping this blog up seeing as I've had it for so long.

I miss taking photos, I used to carry around my camera everywhere I went. I would never leave the house without it.

It was always in my hands and everyone knew that I would document anything and everything. Now, I rarely bring my camera.

It's never on me and I usually forget it. Even for special events I barely take it out of my purse. It's sad; now I just use my iphone to take photos. But I miss the feeling of using a camera, being able to adjust the settings and hold it in my hands. I want to start using my camera again. Ideally save my money to buy a newer one, but for now I'll stick to actually using it again.

So I'm going to once more try to manage this blog...see how that goes; take things one day at a time. This photo was taken last summer. The day that I left California to head back home. It has been exactly a year since I've been there and it still feels like it just happened. I miss it.

The Dog Days Are Over....

I just love florence and the machine her voice is soo lovely!

So I've been trying to work as much as I can this week and next week before I head to California! I'm so excited to be going it's been 6 years and I really cannot wait anymore. Although I have some kind of ear infection/swimmer's ear so I really hope that it works out before I leave or I won't be able to fly :(