Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day (or Valentine's week, rather)! This week was quite a week for cooking and spending time with friends! I tried out a bunch of great recipes and Thursday was buy one get one free at Starbucks. Can't say I enjoyed my Vanilla Spice Latte, but the idea was there and Andrew enjoyed his.

So, my week of cooking adventures began with "chicken enchilada puffs." Great times, really easy. It's an enchilada you can eat with your hand...does it get any better? Also, you can toast them up later and they still taste good. 

For dessert, I made mini-heart-shaped strawberry pies. Very festive. I'm not much of a baker, so this was a feat of endurance and patience in my book.

For Valentine's Day, Andrew took me to the Cove for dinner--highly recommend their "Tinga Tacos" and "Baja Fish Tacos." If you live in the area, go to the Cove. If they go out of business, I'd be pretty disappointed. 

Yesterday, one of my friends and I celebrated a combination of Christmas and Valentine's Day. We bought each other honey for Christmas, so we made "honey mustard chicken" for dinner. Also delicious. I made another set of it today so that I can eat it this week!

Back to (elementary) school!

I just realized that I haven’t blogged in a month…oops. Well anyways, I am back to campus and adjusting to a new semester. I am used to all linguistics classes, but now I am only in one linguistics class and many education classes! In my linguistics class, we are studying Indonesian in a mock-field-study environment.

I am going to start observing 5^th grade this semester and by the end of next school year, I will be student teaching! I am excited. Today, we started with “light.” We made word maps of the ideas that the kids already knew about light and sound. We talked about how sound and light are both kinds of energy and are both waves. I learned today that light CAN travel in a vacuum because otherwise we wouldn’t be able to see the sun (since space contains vacuums). I was also surprised by the number of ways children can spell “vacuum”)!!

So, now you’re more educated about light and I have a better log of what I have done so far in my practicum. It’s a win-win. :)