My Day

Well this won't be too exciting. You have been warned. Continue reading at your own risk. You may need a chair and some coffee.

So I am legit now. I even have a certificate for being a presenter today. It looks all official and stuff. I got to feel important for a few hours I guess. It sounds all important and stuff but in reality we just went to FMU (that's where the conference was), got our official presenter packets (woo hoo!), got a nifty name tag (ok it wasn't really that nifty. I could print another one if I wanted to), set up our room and waited for the people to come. I even got to be tech support (sort of) when we couldn't find a wireless network to connect to (what we needed to get internet in the room) I have a little experience in that area but I really didn't help much. The computer just needed a little more time to connect to the network. Once the people came we started talking about what we do for SMART Night and how we plan it out. I've never thought too much about it being out of the ordinary but I guess it is something to be proud of. Everyone was really into it and excited about doing the things we talked about and showed them with their students. They kept saying "wow I can see my kids doing this" and what not. I was like "that's kind of the point" you know?!? They really liked it that we plan all of these activities that correlate with the state standards that they can do at home with stuff they most likely already have at home. They also thought it was cool that 1. We were actually from here. (I guess they thought we traveled to present at their conference) and 2. That we were the actual people that thought up the activities and did this with our actual students and parents. So it went well. I even got an umbrella for being a presenter. That made it totally worth it. ;)

The absolute B.E.S.T part was one woman was looking through the book that we had printed from the SMART Night we did this year and stopped on MY page. (we each had to type out a page that outlined what we did in each session by grade level and my session (with Mrs. Taylor) was "egg'citing math) So she stops on that page and says "wow what a great idea!" I was like that's MY session!!! So she wanted me to tell her all about it and I was able to tell her FIRST HAND how well it worked with the kids and how I even made more to use in the classroom on a regular basis. You remember me needing the egg cartons right? Well that's what this was. So that was cool. She left saying that she would definitely do it next year! I can't take all the credit though. The original idea came from Mrs. Taylor. We worked together to get it together and I presented it back in April at school. So I feel like it's partially my 'baby' too. You know what I mean?

So yeah it went well. They had to do surveys and we got glowing reviews from everyone. The only negative was that some wished the session was longer!

So all in all it was a pretty good time. I was thinking the group would be lagging since our session was right after they ate lunch but they weren't. Maybe our session was that good.

I wonder now if we won't have to do other conferences with more sessions (like be there all day). That wouldn't be bad.

After that I was feeling pretty good. When we got back to school I stopped by my classroom and saw that it hasn't been destroyed. So I have hope that it will be in one piece once the summer camp is done with it. They are using my carpets though. How dare they. Just kidding...maybe... Melissa was like "ugh- you have the 5 yr olds in your room!?!" I was like "dude srsly I have 6 yr olds regularly. It's not like it's that different."

I should have taken a picture in my official presenter outfit and name tag. But I didn't. sorry.
:( Everyone said I looked really pretty though. :) I actually curled my hair and put decent make -up on today. Maybe I'll do that more often when we go back. I tend to get lax and don't want to take the time to curl my hair.

After that we went grocery shopping and then Nick talked me into going swimming *cringes from sunburn flashbacks*. He was bored and has been dying to go swimming since I got charred last week. So we slathered me up with sun screen and went to the pool at 6:30. So it wasn't bad. Oh yeah - I am now peeling like crazy. You don't want me to take a picture of that I promise. THEN we decided to take Murphy to the dog park and let him run around for a while. He was the only dog there so he had fun. There is a pond there with a bunch of fish jumping around. He was soooooo afraid of them!! He would jump back and then run away every time one jumped. It was pretty funny. He is definitely NOT a water dog. We had a good time talking about Kate and imagining how she would be hanging out in the middle of the pond getting all the abandoned balls and fishing bobs (is that what they are called) that got marooned.

So that was my Monday. Not too shabby if I do say so myself.

How was your Monday?

I know I am starting to get excited about Harry Potter coming out in like 16 days!!! I bet you're not. But that's okay. I'll forgive you this once. We can't all be excited about HP. We might even go to the midnight showing. :) I might even get a t-shirt. Yeah I'm serious. I'm still planning to get a Team Edward shirt. And yes I will wear it/them to the movies. But I won't be going the the midnight showing of New Moon. Two reasons: 1. If it does come on on a Thursday I can't hang with getting up and going to work the next day. 2. I refuse to watch it with a bunch of screaming idiots (if I can at all help it).

So that was my day. :) Hopefully you didn't fall off of your chair from boredom. Or go blind from having to read too many words with no pictures. ;)