Hold on to your seats, this is going to be one long post.
Since I last wrote a lot has been going on. First thing is I interviewed for a summer camp position teaching Fashion Design. It was my second interview with this organization. It was also a group interview. Let’s just say I had lots of clammy palm filled flash-backs to my bombed Teach for America interview over 3 years ago. With the Teach for America gig, I guess most people don’t have near the problem I did with French pronunciation. And you can only rhyme so many French words with Pierre Cardin. If I’d show up on fire, the interview would have gone better.
Back to my most recent endeavor. The interview part was first and I thought it was awesome. Next I had the teaching portion. Apparently it wasn’t a “competition” interview, but since there were three of us with Fashion Design experience for the one position, it was hard not to believe that. I taught some brief info on fashion sketching. I thought the whole thing went well, but when I went up to the person in charge afterwards to ask a few questions, she gave off the vibe that they were not interested. I’m pretty sure that the fact I could attend only one of the two training days didn’t play into my favor. But I was not about to miss Eric’s ordination day for anything. We’ve been in school for this for almost 5 years now!! **Sigh** Needless to say I got a, “No Thank You,” note 3 days into my two-week notification window. **sigh**
I will be teaching an art curriculum at the school I aide at for part of the summer, and have the freedom to create and teach any other class I want. So, I need to find the discipline to sit down and work on that. But, so far that discipline is fleeting. I know I can wrangle it up somehow.
Next up, my parents came to visit. It was a lot of fun. Here are some goofy pictures of the weekend.
Here we are with our goofy hard hats on the Behind the Scenes tour of the Winchester Mystery House. I loved it, my dad loved it, and my mom couldn’t get over how creepy it was.
On Saturday we wandered south down the 101. Our first stop was Mission San Juan Bautista. It was so tranquil. We walked across town and enjoyed a few treats at the town bakery!
I managed to be pretty good. I’m still working on those pesky 10 pounds the doctor told me to lose in October! I’m down about 5, but it was definitely difficult to resist all that sugar!
After San Juan Bautista we continued south to Pebble Beach. We drove around the 17-mile drive then ate a late lunch in the clubhouse overlooking the 18th green. Here are my parents enjoying the gorgeousness that is Pebble Beach.
The rest of the trip went by way too quickly. We played quite a few rounds of cribbage, I knitted a bit with my mom. The cats were especially cute too. Scotch always camped out on my dad’s lap at night, and Sake made out with two hand-knitted toy worms from my mom.
The school-week flew by. On Friday, I “subbed” for the third grade teacher. She was in and out, but I was in charge for most of the day. I think I lucked out a bit because there were 5 kids out!! We’ve never had 5 kids out in a day, but it definitely is easier to manage 17 kiddos, rather than 22 solo.
The reason the main teacher was out was she was getting ready for Round Ball Weekend. Our school hosts a junior high boys basketball and cheerleading tournament. The main teacher is the cheerleading coach. So we spent a lot of the weekend cheering on our teams. Our boys fought hard, but didn’t place in the tournament. The girls were able to successfully defend their cheerleading championship! It was so high-energy to watch. It was lots of fun.
I suppose that catches you up. Much love and have an awesome week!
Peace,
Katy ^_^