Confessions of a Bootless Texan

The past few weeks have been pretty crazy for me.  I took my dance certification test at the College of the Mainland on October 17th and......... I PASSED!  I also won tickets to the Gotye concert through a contest on the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion's blog. The concert was amazing! I fell in love with the Givers, the opening act. I highly recommend you check them out. One of their songs was featured on Glee recently! I finished all of my field based experiences! Before interning, you must complete 30 hours of observation. While this doesn't sound like much, it really is quite hard to just sit and watch a class for that long.   I took the Haberman Pre-Screener test??? Up until this week, I had no clue what this test was. Apparently, this one test has a 95% success rate of determining teachers who will stay and succeed vs. quit the profession. I should find out later this week my results. (YIKES) I hope y'all have a great week, and I&#

I seriously can't even account for where the last four months went. While I was busy worrying about the most petty things, time flew by.    In the last four months, I've... -celebrated my grandfather's 80th birthday!  -started my field based observations for my teacher's certification. It feels so weird to be back in high school. I still feel like a student myself.   -studied, studied and studied some more for my dance certification test next week. -learned the beauty of Crockpots! In fact, I'll share with you my favorite Crockpot recipe to date. It's so simple and tastes so good. Hope you enjoy it as much as me! Crockpot Potato Soup -went to Trader Joe's for the first time! I'm in awe of all the unique foods there. If you're addicted to pumpkin as much as me, you'll love their pumpkin muffins, pumpkin butter and pumpkin ice cream. (I tried free samples of all of them at the store.) -read "The Girl with the Drago