Greetings From Iowa

Hi everyone who reads this. I am in Iowa. The sun is about to set on a very lazy day for me. Its great here. Outside there are beautiful houses and snow...lots of it! The weather is cold. Today it was warmer... 20 degrees. =) Being here is great. Jonathan's family is awesome. His mom is sweet and gentle and his dad is funny. His brother Will is funny too. We got here Saturday night. Sunday was church. Will is part of a team that does puppeteering and they had a performance Sun night. It was great. Monday was an adventure, driving like an hour to get to a decent mall. Then coming back and having dinner ready, and leaving on another long drive to the movie theater. Everyone fell asleep. We wacthed the Chronicles of Narnia. It was really good! Today Jonathan and I faced the cold and walked Downtown. I got to see the Mississippi river, and visted the muscatine library. They also have a cool yarn shop with really expensive yarn. Then we came back to chicken nuggets for lunch, and watched Fantastic Four. lol. Bad choice. Oh well. Now we are being lazy again. Jonathan is sleeping. This is a great vacation already. Every morning I go wake up Jonathan then go downstairs and food is placed infront of me. Its so great! The weird thing about Iowa is that noone else seems to like it here. I think its beautiful. It really is a white christmas!

The Final Final

Today I took my last final! Woo hoo! I woke up at a wonderful 6 am and walked to the bus stop in pitch black freezing weather. I got there 15 minutes early, but I didn't study much...at all. I don't think I did that bad. I walked out of there and seconds later sold my books back, for the last time. I got 81 dollars. Not bad. I took half of that and bought my cap, gown and tassel and a cup of noodle. Then I had graduation practice. It was actually fun. I thought I wouldn't know anyone, but I recognized a lot of faces. The coolest thing was I talked to this girl who was in the class I had the final for that morning. She is actually a Christian and goes to Westgate church. That was really cool. She's a funny person too. Its a shame that I meet cool people like that the last day of school. Today has been long and crazy but really fun. Three more days till Iowa. I don't know how I will be able to stand the cold weather. I am a wimp. I can hardley stand this California night weather. Two weeks and three days till Disneyland! Two days till Graduation! Tomorrow is also a big day. My preschoolers have there Winter Program. This means showing off to parents what we have taught the kids. I don't like interacting with the parents very much. Some of them are very nice but some are just plain crazy. Same goes for the children. Well, time to rest up; there are so many more festivities this week.

The Last Days of School

I have one week of school left. Forever. At least for now. I have been in school for 20 years. Yes thats right. I started school at 3 years old at Challenger. That is when my mom started working there. Now I work there! And I am finally graduating college. I have been in college for five and a half years. People keep asking me if I am excited and I don't really know how I feel. I am glad that I don't have to do anymore tests, essays, APA style research papers, no more turnitin.com, no more teacher evaluations, etc. It still does not feel real. Maybe when I put on a black gown and cap, I will feel like this is real. I am really going to miss going to school. I like the going part but not the doing. I love meeting new people in my classes. I really do like learning about children and stuff. I will really miss how easy it was to meet people who are not Christians. I have met an awesome friend in the last few years at SJSU. When I first met her, I knew she had no belief in God at all, but the other day she told me that after last summer she started to think that there was a God. I was so excited to hear that. She is such a funny person. She always made me laugh with her random stories. This morning in class this guy kept talking about Chuck Norris. It was funny. This morning was funny too. I think my alarm went off... well, I think that I ignored it because next thing I knew it, it was 8:13. I usually leave my house at 8:15. I still made it on time. Phew! Winter makes me have really bad personal hygiene. Its too freakin cold in the morning to get into the shower. The other day I had to pour hot water on my windows to defrost them. Its officially winter! I am also getting ready to go to Iowa to meet my fiance's parents. I am really excited to meet them and see how they are. I'm sure its going to be a blast. Then, I am going to Disneyland for New Years. I love Disneyland. And I have always wanted to go with a "significant other". All my dreams are coming true. lol. ANYWAY, I guess soon I will know how it feels to be a college graduate. I hope it doesn't hurt.