Summer here comes...class

Summer school is over halfway done! Yay!! After this, one class and I'll be officially ready for my student teaching in August!

Since last year I've had this strong desire to get my senior pictures done. I didn't have any senior high school pictures done....technically. Irony being that right now I'm engaged to a photographer. Means I must have thousands of pictures of myself just waiting to be used for the right moment, right? Absolutely not. Being similar to me, Sean is a perfectionist. He's also slightly forgetful, so between those two, you have a slightly unhappy fiancée that wants her photos taken and a dear boy who doesn't know or understand:)

So much has happened since my last post. I finished my white glove cleaning check at the dorms. Spent my last week at the dorms saying goodbye to people and working. I spent a lot of time with Sean and his parents while they were down. For Sean's graduation, my parents came and we all had a blast trying to dodge in and out of 5000+ graduates to get to different ceremonies.

The day after that, I moved into a 6,000+ sq ft home converted from a church. It’s cozy though, despite how large it sounds. It has 4 bedrooms upstairs, plus a music room (with PIANO!!) that can convert into a bedroom, 3 bathrooms at least. Downstairs is the guys' area as well as basement storage area. My roommate is very sweet, a nursing major so when I do become more accident prone, she'll know how to fix me up!

I have some new pets: Salamanders!! Haha I have yet to tell my dear roomie, but I don't think she'll mind; they don't smell (yet? do they smell?) and they're quiet and hidden in their little container. My environmental science professor, Dr. R, saw me in the hallway this afternoon, so we were able to talk about all the field trips we did in the spring. He mentioned that the little puddle area where the salamander eggs were clustered together was drying up; see, the mother salamanders live in the forest near a pond we found newts at. The salamander mommies, being very bright, laid their eggs in still, fairly deep/wide, puddles outside of the pond system. That way, the babies aren't eaten by frogs, fish, newts, etc. but sadly, the newt's nesting area is drying up rapidly...it took me a while to find it because it had shrunk so badly! Anyway, Sean and I went up there this evening before the sun went down completely, and I caught about 10 or so little baby salamanders. They’re not completely air breathers yet, but they do have feet in addition to their tails and gills. They’re so cute! I had to buy bloodworms for them to eat (gross little blocks...); so far they haven't eaten them, but I’m hoping they'll be hungry tomorrow after the shock of being outside the pond wears down.

I'd love to talk more, but I really need to finish reading an essay and writing a response on it!