Weekend Recap

Post 2 in a week, this could be a record! This past weekend the weather has been great and a fun weekend with friends! Friday before the weekend officially started for my Survey of Arts class- Directed at how to integrate art into the classroom we took a field trip to Open Book in DT Minneapolis.  What an awesome place this was.  It's right on Washington and I have seen the sign for it many times but always thought it was a book store.  Here we learned how to make books that we can do in our classrooms.  They also do printing, paper making, a variety of different types of book making, and other art stuff.  It was one of the coolest places I have been in Minneapolis, its interior is rustic and loft like.  Open book has classes for different ages from kids to adults as well as conducting class field trips.  However, its  pretty spendy! Click on Open book above if you want to check it out! Friday night I went with some friends to a Bar in NE Minneapolis called Gastof's.  Its a German bar and they were having a festival where men dress up like woman and woman dress up like men.   Well we did not partake in that and no one their really did either but the workers, but their was a few Classic German dressed old men.  The picture of this will explain that! 

While at Gastofs I ran into some friends from Springfield too, which is always fun to randomly run into!

Sunday, I woke up early and met my mom in Shakopee to switch cars, I had hers for a week while mine was getting looked at.  We decided to meet in Shakopee so I could get a start on my homework wile waiting for her.  I was able to revise and add to a 10 page paper I had due the next day, so again Thanks mom for meeting closer to me! That afternoon I hung out with my friend Jake and we went for lunch and then walked around Calhoun since the day was so nice.  It was more of dodging all the people and big puddles all over! Still was great to be outside without being cold! Yesterday for  Valentines day I had to first work and celebrated Valentines day with SaharaJane, then actually had a Valentines date with Jake. We didn't make big plans and just had some wine and then went to Uptown and just planned on going somewhere and seeing if we could get in.  We got in at the first place we tried-  ll Gatto an Italian restaurant.  We had a really nice night! Hope everyone had a good day and are all enjoying the weather! 

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Well it has been some time before I have updated. I often think about how I need too, but never get around to it. I figured I would give a brief update of what I have been up too. I'll start with some exciting news I got today...My acceptance letter into the ILP (Initial Licensure Program)/Master's program! As soon as I got it I accepted the offer and had to send in of course payment to accept, but that was besides the point at the time. I also have a few forms that I have to fill out, one being my district preference and grade, which isn't guaranteed but kind of exciting to think about! I am getting super busy with school now, writing lesson plans for two students a 4th grader and a K that I am working individually on literacy with. I only have two kids to prepare for and feel overwhelmed! I also find myself going to target not for myself but for materials instead! Besides school I am still nannying for SaharaJane who is 8, I pick her up from school and most of our time is filled with Kumon (An advanced Math program), Arabic Math, and French homework, and then we make dinner and she is in bed at 7:30! When I have free time I try to go to the Gopher Basketball games, and go out with friends of course. Looking forward for the winter to be over and some SUN and WARMTH! I also have a recent addiction to scrabble so if anyone wants to play me and lose there is a droidword app or wordfued! Hope everyone is doing well and I will try to update more often but really I'm not that exciting to update :)