The Grand Finale (Moving On)

Good news! I have finished my last quarter of classes here in Ellensburg and, for the first time in my life EVER, with straight A's!!

All I have left to do now is student teach in the Fall and then I will be finally finished, at least with my time here at Central. I know I have so much more to learn, and school will never really be over for me. Down the road I would like to get endorsed to teach special ed, English as a second language, middle-level math, and maybe history. But I suppose for now I'd better just focus on one thing at a time.

In other news, I have been helping my friend Erin with one of her major requirements by modeling one of her garments! She is a Fashion Merchandising major, and one of her graduation requirements was to create a fashion line for the annual school fashion show. She put in a lot of looooong hours in the sewing lab, and the other models and I put in a lot of hours in modeling practice and it was all so worth it! The show was so much fun, and a great way to end our last year together at CWU!

 Here's some pictures of us models after the 3 o'clock show wearing the things Erin made. There was another show at 7, and more pictures will be coming - they just have to be approved by Erin's department chair before being posted on Facebook.

Now I'm working on packing up my stuff to be ready to move out later this summer (when I have some place to move it to...). Jay and I are slowly making progress on finding a place in Tacoma. My student teaching placement is finalized at Wilson High School.

I'm not in too much of a rush to leave Ellensburg, though. This place has really grown on me, and leaving the wide-open spaces to return to the land of people living on top of each other just doesn't sound all that great. I'm always shocked by the amount of traffic when I go back to the Seattle-side of the mountains, and shocked by how in a rush everyone seems.

I've moved on from a lot of people and places in my life, but this moving on feels different. I remember how excited I was when my mom and dad and stepmom dropped me off at college. I was so ready to move on then, and while all my friends around me were struggling with homesickness I was having the time of my life.

I feel like I should be more excited now. I should be excited for everything coming up, but mostly I'm just feeling bummed that this time in my life is ending. It's been an amazing 5 years, and I'm so glad I was able to spend it with my best friends. We've all come a long way since high school (literally for Kara and Erin: Kara's "studying" abroad in Morocco right now, and Erin studied abroad in Milan for fall quarter!), and I can't wait to see what the two of them do next.

I'm sure as time goes on and the future solidifies I'll be more excited about taking the next steps into real life.

I may or may not continue this blog during student teaching. I would like to post updates about how my student teaching is going, but only if anyone is actually interested. If I continue this blog, I'll be changing the title of it and possibly making it private so my students can't find it. If you want me to continue updating through student teaching, comment here or e-mail me and let me know!