momma. moving. and COPS.

today has been eventful... and a little bit crazy.

my mom came down to charlotte to hang out with me and celebrate my bday with me (dont worry, you havent missed it yet, i'm still one week shy of 24... phew) we spent most of today running from place to place. i showed her my classroom and school, we went shopping and to lunch, she met my "host mom" and saw the houses i've lived in (yes, houses... dont worry, i'll get to that part.) we went to see my girls play some soccer and kick some york bottom. i LOVE watching my kids play sports. it's like i'm a proud mom or something. i'm so proud of them while i'm watching... crazy.

after that i dropped my mom back in charlotte because she had to get home (sad... only 24 hours with her, and it was the first time i'd seen her since the end of december... ohhh being a grown up, i dont know how i feel about you...)

then i proceeded to my favorite and least favorite place in all of rock hill... books-a-million of course :) and spent the remainder of my saturday grading tests. the life of a teacher, now that... i can get used to :)

an explanation; part of student teaching is that dr. cooper places all of us with a "host family" to live with for the duration of our teaching time. i started off living with another student teacher and her host family for my first week in Rock Hill, then, i moved in with my host family (a single woman, sheri, and her adopted (from china) daughter, anna) the house that sheri and anna were living in was a rental, so sheri just bought a new house... in the middle of all of the moving, my mom was in town, so i didnt get to the new house to move my stuff in until literally about an hour ago... there was some sort of misunderstanding with when i would get back from charlotte and from being with my mom, so when sheri heard me moving all of my stuff into the house she got scared and called the cops! they showed up at the house while i was in the middle of unpacking my suitcase... scary.

everything is cleared up now... obviously. but man... long and eventful night!

i've got two weeks left with my kids, which hurts my heart more than i can even begin to say. my sophomores are in DC for the week, so it's just me and the freshmen this week... billy, my cooperating teacher, is going on the dc trip too, so i'm pretty sure i'm going to be legitimately alone this week. weird. i'm not teaching any more lessons (which makes me ridiculously sad), but i'll try my best to keep this updated with what i'm learning still... i'm sure that what i'm learning wont slow down in the least bit even though i'm not teaching anymore... it just might be about different types of things...

tomorrow (hopefully) i'm taking some of my girls out to dinner to hang out with them and spend some time with them before i leave, and i'm really looking forward to that!
this week is a three day week, and then thur and fri are teacher work days (weird that i actually have to go in for those... used to be a free day off... not anymore!)