Summer Job

I have a summer job in the wide open expanse of Duchesne, Utah. It is a little town about 180 miles away from Salt Lake City. My parents own a cabin there, a cozy 2 room, 2 floor, 2 bath, 2 car garage get-away. They have a friend there that owns his own business building cabins, Basin Wide Builders. I leave my SLC home Sunday night and go to The Cabin. On Monday I wake up at about 5:30am, and get ready to leave by 6. After a 30 minute drive to the site we are building the cabin we get out and start working. I have done things like putting in windows, roofing, and ehlping with some basic electrical stuff. It has been interesting and really different from teaching. But for a summer job where I am just interested in earning some more money before we move to Grand Junction it does the job. We finish at about 3:00, and after cleaning up we take off at about 3:30 to get home by 4. I take a shower and then relax for the rest of the day. I don't have phone service there without paying for roaming, so I don't call anyone on the phone very often. I leave on Friday's and get home in SLC at about 6pm. I do it all so we can move to Grand Junction and get settled in there. It's a good job, but I don't think I want to do this for my whole life.

Last day at Sunset Ridge

I had my last official day at Sunset Ridge Middle school on Thursday June 7th. It was a happy, and sad moment for me. While I was there at the school I learned a great deal about kids, and their desires to learn. I will miss all of the Falcons that I taught for the past year. It was great every morning to have half a dozen kids come into the class room to say hi and then to hang out a little before they all took off to get to their first period class on time; I will miss the chances to see some students come in and say hi to me during passing time; the occasional student who would come in to say au revoir, or ciao after school got out. I will also miss the other teachers who gave me so much: Linda, Coleen, Natalie, Wyatt, and Sherrie. They were there to help me with my questions and to cheer me up on those few days when I didn't want to be there.
I am glad that I had that opportunity to be there and teach those kids preparing me to go out and teach other students in my new adventure. Thanks so much to you all for your help, you are wonderful!!!

Palisade High, Grand Junction (Palisade) CO

So I had my interview down in Grand Junction, CO. It was a very long day. It started off with me waking up at 4am so I would make it down to Palisade High at noon. I figured I needed to leave by about 5:30 in order to be safely there on time. The time didn't go by fast and it didn't help that I'm not to smart,even though I just graduated, because I thought there was going to be a time change from SLC to GJ, but low and behold there wasn't; plus without any traffic it was easier to go a little faster than the speed limit. So needless to say I got there a little early. You can probably guess how early I got there, but for your sake and mine I will just tell you I had about 2.5 hours to spare. Yup, 2.5!!!! So as I approached the school to make sure that I knew where it was. The I decided that it would be fun to go on a little scenic drive to check it out, so I did! My first stop was at Safeway to use their facilities. Then for the next hour or so I was talking with Angie on the phone while she was at work and we tried to find different things in GJ together. I would drive around and ask for certain things, like where the church was or where Walmart was and she would also tell me some things that she was finding on line, like how many wards were in GJ (12). We also teamed up to find out about some apartments there, just in case we move there. When I would find one I would tell her the name and she would look it up online from her computer and then give me the scoop on it. We didn't really find to much doing this, but it was fun anyway. After a while I was tired of driving so I decided to take a much needed break at "Barnes and Nobles". So I took my computer in and tried to connect to the Internet there, but of course you have to pay if you want Internet access. So instead I just relaxed until it was time to head over to the school for the interview.
I didn't really know how far away the school was but I figured 30 minutes from the "Barnes and Nobles" would be fine. I had also forgotten that I needed to get gas, or I probably wouldn't even make it to the school. So I hurried and found a gas station and pumped me some gas before heading out to find the school again. Luckily I didn't hit any red lights (I only had about 5 lights to go through) on my way to the school and I got there with 3 minutes to spare before my interview. I quickly put on my tie and suit jacket and headed through the front doors and into the office. There I found some people laughing and having a good time, plus to my surprise there were two dogs there in the office just hanging out. I found out earlier that their school year ended May 24th, so there were no more kids in school. The office staff told the assistant principle that I was there and I only had to wait a few more minutes before he waved me into the conference room where I had the interview. For the interview 2 assistant principles, the athletic director, and a Spanish teacher were present. They started off mentioning that the whole interview would be very informal because they wanted me to feel comfortable with the situation. Starting off I was asked to talk about myself because all they knew about me was what was on my resume, a one page description of my work experience. We talked about me for a while and then they went into some prepared questions. The interview went on for about 45 minutes while they asked questions and I asked questions. At the end of the interview the assistant principle, who had called me on the phone to schedule the interview, told me that because the position was still open he could not officially offer me the job, but stated that I would "probably be getting a call" from them. After the interview he took me around the school and showed me where everything was. The picture on the right shows where the the French room is, it's on the other side of this detached building addition tot he right. So let's all pray and cross our fingers that the decide to officially offer us the position. Bulldogs