Brian has spent the past two weeks waking up way too early and working way too late!! He's completed two 12 mile ruck marches, a 6 mile ruck march, a 4 mile run, multiple push ups, sit-ups, and he has even repelled out of a perfectly good helicopter. But he is now Air Assault Qualified!!!! There were 293 soldiers that wanted to complete the training, and only 143 graduated. Great job, Brian, I am so proud of you!!!
Some more exciting news, he's going to be promoted to Captain this next month!! Not sure exactly which day yet, but starting next month he'll be getting paid as a Captain. It almost makes up for the pay cut that I took. :)
Saturday, September 26, 2009
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
What we've been up to these past few weeks....
Sorry again for taking so long to make this post. Life has been very busy for us ever since we finally moved into our house!! We've been unpacking boxes almost every night, but I think we have finally gotten to the end of unpacking. So it's now time I update you all on what we've been up to.
We'll start with Brian's work. He is really enjoying his time here working in the clinic. He says it's nice because he's only working with soldiers. He tells me that the dependents are usually the hard ones because we complain a lot!!!! Brian will also be attending air assault school next week. It's a two week course here at Fort Riley and he can't wait to get started.
I on the other hand, am not enjoying my job so much. I knew it was going to be different compared to where I'm coming from, but it's a lot harder than I ever imagined. The school is really old so the way their technology is set up is difficult to work with. My projector is not mounted to the ceiling so I have to constantly step over the cords to the wall. My classroom is right next door to the principals office...and I mean right next door!!! I have a door in my room that goes straight into his room!! So I'm constantly thinking that my kids are being too loud.
I'm coaching volleyball which is not a sport that I'm too familiar with so that's kind of difficult, plus the time I have to spend on it seems worse here because athletics is not an actual period of the school day like it is in San Antonio. Plus we have to travel pretty far ( usually an hour or more) to play other schools. It makes for very long days. I usually leave my house by 6:35 Am and on game nights I don't get home until after 10 PM.
To top it all off, the level the students are at here compared to San Antonio is very low. I can't believe that I'm still teaching Algebra I topics to my Algebra II class and I will be for another month!!!!!!! My geometry students Algebra skills are also very low. It's hard to cover the topics that I'm supposed to when they don't have a basic understanding of the foundation for mathematics!!!!!! I'm done venting for now, hopefully the school year gets better for me. Right now I can definitely say that I will not be teaching here next year.
Now it's time to get to the good stuff!!! Here's a picture of our first night in our new house. We're sleeping on an air matress because our stuff was going to be delivered the next day.
We'll start with Brian's work. He is really enjoying his time here working in the clinic. He says it's nice because he's only working with soldiers. He tells me that the dependents are usually the hard ones because we complain a lot!!!! Brian will also be attending air assault school next week. It's a two week course here at Fort Riley and he can't wait to get started.
I on the other hand, am not enjoying my job so much. I knew it was going to be different compared to where I'm coming from, but it's a lot harder than I ever imagined. The school is really old so the way their technology is set up is difficult to work with. My projector is not mounted to the ceiling so I have to constantly step over the cords to the wall. My classroom is right next door to the principals office...and I mean right next door!!! I have a door in my room that goes straight into his room!! So I'm constantly thinking that my kids are being too loud.
I'm coaching volleyball which is not a sport that I'm too familiar with so that's kind of difficult, plus the time I have to spend on it seems worse here because athletics is not an actual period of the school day like it is in San Antonio. Plus we have to travel pretty far ( usually an hour or more) to play other schools. It makes for very long days. I usually leave my house by 6:35 Am and on game nights I don't get home until after 10 PM.
To top it all off, the level the students are at here compared to San Antonio is very low. I can't believe that I'm still teaching Algebra I topics to my Algebra II class and I will be for another month!!!!!!! My geometry students Algebra skills are also very low. It's hard to cover the topics that I'm supposed to when they don't have a basic understanding of the foundation for mathematics!!!!!! I'm done venting for now, hopefully the school year gets better for me. Right now I can definitely say that I will not be teaching here next year.
Now it's time to get to the good stuff!!! Here's a picture of our first night in our new house. We're sleeping on an air matress because our stuff was going to be delivered the next day.
My mom was nice enough to come down that same weekend and bring Sadie with her. Sadie had spent the last few months with Brian's parents. She became their shop dog.
The following weekend we drove up to Lincoln, NE to get the cats from Brian's brother. The cats really got spoiled there. Thanks for taking such good care of them, Todd.
The following weekend we went to a Chief's game. It was a great day for a football game.
And now I'm finally to Labor Day weekend. We had a little house warming party this weekend. We had lunch at the house and then we headed out for the lake. Ed and Deb brought their boat down and we took our jet ski out on the lake as well. I think everyone had a great time.
My good friends, Karen and Randy made the drive down. It was great seeing you guys again!!!
Here's Jennifer showing us all how to ski. Jennifer is a friend of mine from work. She's really one of the only math teachers that I talk to.
Here's Brian's Aunt Judy enjoying some sun.
Here's a picture of my dad getting up on the skis.
I think this may be a picture of Ed looking back at me as I attempted to get up on the skis. It took me probably 3 tries before I finally made it up.
Thanks to Ed and Deb for bringing the boat down, it really made the weekend that much more fun!
It was nice that Aunt Judy made the trip down. She even had the chance to drive Ed's boat! Go Judy!
Here's my dad trying to dump his mom (Nan). Be nice dad!!!!!
Nan and Dean made the trip down as well. I'm really glad they stayed for the boat ride.
Here's my big catch for the day. This is probably the biggest fish I've ever caught. It was a lot of fun trying to reel this one in. I even held it up ( and I hate touching a fish).
My college roommate, Alicia made it down for the get together as well. Thanks for coming Alicia!
Another beautiful sunset on the lake! We're really going to enjoy being so close to this lake!
In all, it was a great weekend!! I just wish I had one more day to recover from all of the fun! We hope everyone else enjoyed their Labor Day Weekend as well!!
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