used goods for sale

is anyone interested in buying my pocket pc (palm pilot) from me?

for my birthday i got a new one that is also my phone, camera and mp3 player. i'm working on not carrying so much at once. it's still in great shape and i highly reccomend it for helping you stay organized. it's great to not have to write post-it notes all over the place or find a piece of paper and pen when you're out and want to write something down. not to mention you can keep your schedule in it and sync it with outlook on your computer. PLUS it's an mp3 player! it runs on windows so it has word and excel.

right now nick and i are thinking somewhere between $75-$100. which is a great price since they're like $250-300 new. we may be willing to go lower or even throw in a memory card to hold more info/pictures/music. he has the final say.

thought i'd ask you all first before we stick it on ebay. it's a great deal and once you use it you're gonna fall in love with it and wonder how you ever lived without it ;)

half way

i didn't realize how much my life revolved around school and planning until i had this weekend to relax. i only have school on wednesday, and i'm not teaching so it was a great relief to sit around and be a bum. i only left the house for church on sunday! lol

since we have time off at the end of this week - i think we should get together for lunch or something. all of us - even those not student teaching. when do the saipan folks and deanna get back? let me know if you're interested.

YOU CAN DO IT!

Like the title? It makes me think of a cheer from Jr. High. Anyway, that's me trying to be peppy to cheer you all on. Deanna and Erin, for the posting and comment both of you left, and for everyone else:

You Can Do It!

If I can do anything for anyone... and I seriously mean it... please let me know. Let me know how I can encourage you!

Blaaaaaa.....

That's how I feel. Blaaaa.... This semester is literally going to drive me crazy! I'm taking Pentecostal Distinctives, Systematic Theology III, Synoptic Gospels, and Cultural Arts and Communications. Can it sound any more boring than that?!?!

To easily sum it up, they're boring the CRAP out of me! I mean, on average, we're talking about two papers per class over the entire semester! You can argue what I'm about to say, but it's true. I would much rather be in everyone else's shoes, having all the lessons to write, the teaching, the paperwork, the portfolio, the stress. You name it, I'll take it (even the heavy burden of snorkeling that the Saipan people have to cary) ! Just, PLEASE, get me out of these classes!

I've found a temporary fix--I come to class, sit in the back, and read a book. This got some strange looks from people in Pentecostal Distinctives, but that may just be because I was reading Harry Potter and they probably all thought that I had brought the devil's presence (sorry if some of you think that, too--I'll happily disagree with you) .

Anyway. I'll be so happy when this semster's done. I want to be doing something that I care about again.

Hello from your Saipan Friends!

Hey Ya'all! This blog stuff is cool! This is the view from our apartment! I don't know how to post the link to my blog on the side, so maybe some one else can do it for me. it is www.mollybarnhart.blogspot.com We are having a great time! We are so blessed to have Miss Connor with us! She is so great! We are all getting along great (at least I think so!) and we are loving the school and the kids! The weather has been pretty rainy, but God gave us a nice day today to tour the island. He is so creative! Mel and I are sitting in our car outside a coffee shop using their wireless internet! They closed an hour ago, so we had to leave, but we were not done emailing, so we have just been accessing it from the parking lot! I feel like a hacker! I miss all of you guys! Can't wait to be in the portfolio class with you! How will we ever get anything done!

Don't write letters!

I taught a lesson on formal letter format this week. We talked about the parts, what order they go in, etc. The next day we reviewed and Othello (an easily distracted, full of energy kid that talks too fast when he's excited) says, "Well what if someone has your letter and they take your signature and like clone you and like start writing your checks and steal your money?"
I replied with, "You mean like identity theft?"
"Yeah"
And that led to an off subject discussion of identity theft. I finally reasured my frantic seventh graders that if they wrote a letter with their signature, the theft would also need their checks and when asked to presnent ID while using the check he or she would be caught. It was rough there for a bit though. They almost decided against writing letters! LOL.

happy new year!

i'm finally writing in here over break! cuttin it close though ;)
in response to brooke's entry about our favorite part of christmas i would like to say i really enjoyed watching tv at my folk's house. crazy i know, but i loved it since we don't have a tv. and while watching that tv i discovered a country song called "honky tonk badonkadonk"(you can listen to the song or watch the video from that link). now i have seen everything.
ok, seriously - my favorite part of christmas break was christmas eve dinner with nick. we missed the christmas eve service (we thought it started an hour later than it did) and we couldn't find any houses with good christmas lights to look at so i was bummed. but we had his family's cheese fondue next to the christmas tree and it made everything prior to that vanish. i love that i was able to make new christmas traditions this year with nick too.
now i can't belive i'm actually going to be student teaching in a few days - and that i'll be taking Praxis tests in less than a week! geez! im really gonna be a teacher soon! well...if i can pass those tests ;)

. : just an observation : .

As I read Erin's post, beginning with "I am Home! Yay for Michigan and 14 inches of snow," I realized that I don't just read these words. No, rather, I hear them in Erin's voice... can't you just hear it, with her little chirpy energy? Or how about Deanna's: "well hello everyone!" Can't you hear her high-pitched sentimental tone? The way she kind of gets all dramatic-like? And Cory's "okay." I totally heard him saying that, too, like when he would volunteer a course of action in class when a professor was out of the room (example: Okay. Don't ask any questions about the rainy day activities. Let's just get it done and get out of here. Okay?).

It's incredible-everyone from our class has such a unique personality and wonderful observable mannerisms. You guys can't help but leave memorable impressions on me.

Enough sappiness... my apprehensions...

Alright, so I feel all of your sappy sadness at leaving one another. I truly do. In fact, it kind of just kills me to see so many of you going on to bigger, more challenging, exciting things (aka student teaching-I have to do mine in the fall because I didn't have all the classes done on time).

I was doing a little thinking last night, when I really should have been studying for my ed. psych. exam, and I realized a couple things. I hate that I'm not student teaching this semester because I am going to miss the camaraderie! This is the first time that I'm not with all of you in our endeavors -- I won't be there for you guys during the stress and the final leg, and you guys will be gone by the time I need you while I'm going through it. I regret that so much!

And, secondly, I discovered that I'm afraid of getting rusty. Rusty... that makes it sound as though I've had years and years of skill and experience under my belt to go to waste. The fact is, I don't. This last clinical was a really good one for me and I know that I'd be ready to teach. However, I won't until August. August... that's a long ways a way. That's the longest I will have been outside of methods classes, company of education minded friends, and field experience since college. I'm trying to think of ways to keep me involved--tutoring, teaching in China again... But it still makes me apprehensive.

So, I just gave you all a really deep look into me. I just thought I'd voice that, though. If you have any thoughts, please let me know. Best of luck, all!

i'm a dork

my link on the side to my blog works now. the end.