October means winter

It is finally Friday afternoon! It has been a long week and I am looking forward to a quiet weekend. The kids and I seem to have a roller coaster of good days and not so good days. They are good kids, but don't like to be challenged. This makes it hard to teach them! Plus, there seems to be a group of them that are into bullying each other. This shows up mostly in my last period class, which sometimes means I leave school discouraged. For the most part though, things are going pretty well.

It got to a muggy high of 37 degrees today. Yesterday as we were taking our daily walk to the post office we saw some signs of snow. It won't be long now. I am already wearing my ski coat that usually sees me all the way through the winter. Honestly, I'm worried about the cold. I'm going to try not to be a wimp, but I don't really like being cold.

We have been enjoying our time with the other teachers. I don't think we would be making it without their support and friendship. Last weekend Ryan and I hung out with two different couples and both nights were enjoyable. Our single friend Misty comes over to watch Palin politics with us and she is always entertaining.

Ryan and I are now both Liberty University graduate students. I am going to be starting a Masters in Education with a specialization in school counseling. I start class on October 20. I have to admit it was exciting to order textbooks. I even ordered a Liberty sweatshirt. What can I say? I'm a nerd and I'm glad to be back in school.

Earlier this week I was making a mental list of things I was missing...
slowly changing weather
changing leaves
Target
Thursday morning staff meetings at Frontier (limited to 30 min)
my cute red fall coat (I wore it once here and it wasn't warm enough)
neighbors and their new babies
jogging in the country
church
Subway for lunch on Thursdays
Friday's off
the mountains
Indiana festivals
book stores
"The Office" parties
Dazbog coffee
the Loft
family
traveling
Walker Mowers
football games (never thought I would say that)
Red Robin french fries
Vanilla Lattes

On the other hand, here are somethings I've been enjoying here in AK
evenings with my husband
our cute apt
reading novels
being a 2nd year teacher
online shopping
packages (you are all so generous!)
Netflix
baking
magazine subscriptions
the treadmill (sometimes)
reduced cleaning time in the apt
Bible Study on Sunday
game nights with the ladies

Eventually I'm sure the lists will balance out. :) Until then...