Loved and Appreciated

3-4 Papge Paper Takes up 9

lovedandappreciated — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 02:41:54 +0000

Goodness Gracious! How on earth can anyone write only 3-4 pages with so many guiding questions on the Rubric??? No clue!

Not complaining–just wish my printer would hurry up!

Dancing to “Joyful, Joyful” at Cathedral of Faith

lovedandappreciated — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:27:04 +0000

Jumping for Joy!

That’s me in the middle with Tiffany on the left, Jackie on the right, and you can spy Rommel singing in the upper right-hand corner!

Our final pose!

With the lovely ladies (Jackie, Tiffany, and Britt) posing back stage!

Lord of the Rings meets LOLz

lovedandappreciated — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:16:26 +0000

and

and this

Oh yes! I went there! My blog only has room for laughter and cheer!

Last Blog Post of 2011!!

lovedandappreciated — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 07:55:34 +0000

This is how my future mother in law washes our white socks:

1. soak all the socks in a bucket of hot water, bleach, and vinegar overnight

2. hand scrub each individual sock in the sink

3. put them in the washing machine

Gosh–can you imagine?

Giggles

lovedandappreciated — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:00:13 +0000

I’m not a Twilight hate or anything, but this cracked me up!

this one got some giggles:

Gross though . . .

Such a Cute Idea!

lovedandappreciated — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 13:16:30 +0000

Why, Hello 4:30 AM~how nice to see you again!

lovedandappreciated — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:45:44 +0000

Can’t sleep. I think it’s because I am hungry, so I am going to make pizza for breakfast.

Began reading The Alchemist between my atempts to fall asleep, and came across this sweet little passage:

“He swept the floor with his jacket and lay down using the book he had just finished reading as a pillow. He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.”

I don’t know why it struck me, but it made me giggle! I enjoy literate literary characters! In We Were Here, Miguel copes with being in a group home by reading books off their shelf–all classics and required reading for school like Catcher in the Rye and Of Mice and Men. Books bring him comfort, and stability, and sometimes what he reads relates to what he goes through in Juvi, at the home, or while on the run. The way We Were Here is written reminds me of Catcher in the Rye, and I would consider teaching them together in my classroom.

Lot’s of Books.

lovedandappreciated — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 07:10:41 +0000

I guess I’ve lost my fervor for writing in a blog. No time to reflect. Just want to record the books I’ve read in the last last month:

West of Kabul, East of New York

Girl in the Tangerine Scarf

Funny in Farsi

The Persepolis

The Secret Life of Bees

Life Water for Chocolate

Kindred

We Were Here (20 pages to go)

The first four are all Middle Eastern American Lit novels (and a Iranian-French graphic novel), which I read for my class, Ethnicity in American Lit. The next 3 are all novels from the syllabus of the teacher I was going to be interning with (but am now not–don’t regret reading the books at all, though!). The last one is written by Matt De La Pena, a young adult author, who will be coming to my San Jose Area Writing Project seminar next Spring. I’ve enjoyed them all!

So now I am going to be interning at Leland High School, but I haven’t been able to meet with my master teacher, so I have no idea what texts I need to read (or reread) for me to prepare for Spring semester. San Jose Unified School District does list 2 required texts per grade level on their website, so I will reading those texts next, just in case.

9th Grade: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet and Of Mice and Men.

10th Grade: To Kill a Mockingbird (reread) or Like Water for Chocolate (reread yesterday)

11th Grade: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (new!) and The Crucible (reread–unfortunately!)

12th Grade: Their Eyes Were Watching God (rereads) and either Othello, MacBeth, or Hamlet (uh, rereads that I will skip!)

I’ve requested the ones I need from the library and will pick them up next week. In the meantime, my mom has a book for me to read–The Forgotten Garden–and I have a non-fiction book I bought myself when I was Christmas shopping online–DRiVE–about what motivates people. Oh, and I still have 20 more pages in We Were Here. Yay!

Thanksgiving Food Vindicated . . . kinda.

lovedandappreciated — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 01:11:16 +0000

Ha ha, I wasn’t very nice in my anti-Thankgiving food post and I still feel like an ungrateful human being complaining about my first-world problems. Plus, I must admit I did like the food this year, or at least I liked the interesting take on the cranberry sauce from my cousin made a delicious cranberry, spinach, walnut, and feta cheese salad. Mmmm, yummy and different and flavorful!

Still craving Mexican food!

On Thanksgiving Can I Please Have Some Mexican Food?

lovedandappreciated — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 04:52:49 +0000

Everyone always talks about how stuffed they get at Thanksgiving from eating all of the “good food,” but all I really wanna do on this holiday is VOMIT. Turkey by itself is just okay, and sometimes the ham is good but stuffing, and gravy, and green been casserole, and pumpkin pie, and cranberry-whatever-it-is etc. etc. etc is so gross. And plain. And bland. And boring.

My family is filled with great cooks (seriously, my newest aunt is a 5-star chef in SF), and I feel so awful rejecting their meals, but every Thanksgiving I hide my empty plate in shame and go home hungry. It’s very, shall we say, UN-thankful of me.

This year I asked if I could cook anything for our family holiday but everyone has already claimed the usual Thanksgiving-y food. It’s just as well since I don’t actually know how to make any of that stuff, and I guess it would be rude to bring a plate of cheesy enchiladas or a tureen of homemade tortilla soup.

*Shrug*

What can I say? I like Mexican food, and Chinese, and Thai, and Indian, and Moroccan, and so many pungent, spicy, delicious, flavorful types of food that I just don’t want to waste my time with plain, bland, and boring Thanksgiving dishes!