gelato is italian kels...
home tomorrow! cant wait to share stories with all of you!
Saturday, December 15, 2012
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Canadian Checking In
Hello, second family!!!
It has been so nice to catch up on the blog and on Cailin and Connor's adventures! Connor-that bull fight sounds very upsetting. I think Cailin, Grady and I would be in tears sitting in the stands. With gelato...
Things at home have been relatively uneventful, but I have been doing well at my first real job! I'm doing advertising for a local radio station, which sounds a little bit more glamorous than it is. The job entails a lot of cold calling, a lot of rejection, and not as many perks as I had looked forward to. However, I have met a great group of people and have learned a lot. There are 8 salespeople in the office. Jen and Joel are my age, and we go out to eat often. Rene and Rick have been in the radio business for 30+ years, and they have been really great about giving advice and leading the way. Rene also enjoys wearing Christmas sweaters on Fridays even when it is 20 degrees out (Celsius, not Fahrenheit..we are in Canada!) All in all, working 9 to 5 is much more tedious and boring than Middlebury ever was. I find myself missing Vermont a lot and missing the college life even more. Connor's three-hour siestas each afternoon sound like heaven...
Last week I celebrated my birthday at a new restaurant in the old part of Montreal. The group of us then went over to "Chez Serge", a tiny french bar with a mechanical bull and waitresses in leather jackets and cowboy boots. It reminded me of our trip down south to Nashville when Grady and I moved Cailin in!
I've been in touch with Peter (Martone, not Ross!) who has interviewed for an engineering position on a cruise ship. It would take him to the Caribbean for a year and sounds very exciting. Hopefully he can fly some family and friends out to join him if he takes it! I can see Mama Beth enjoying a daquiri poolside...
Last weekend I was in my very first Christmas show with my new singing group, the Lyric Theater Singers. It's mainly a broadway group but they put on a big Christmas concert every December and all three days were sold out! On the last day we even got a standing ovation. It's definitely helped me make friends and enjoy my time back at home since graduation.
My two kittens, Bear and Olivia, have somehow turned into cats overnight. Bear is nine pounds and gaining and eats everything in sight. Olivia is slightly smaller but still eating her way through an expensive amount of kitten food a week. Since we've started putting up Christmas decorations they have gone absolutely mad. Nothing like tinsel and a kitten...
Planning a trip to visit Middlebury next weekend when Cailin, Grady and Connor are home. Looking forward to seeing everyone and seeing snowy Vermont. And if we're lucky maybe Connor will take us skiing!
Here is the program from my show!
Peter, Cailin and I relaxing in Biloxi, Mississipi!
The three of us in Memphis.
Lots of love to everyone. It feels so good to be a part of this blog with you all! :)
xoxox
Kelsey
It has been so nice to catch up on the blog and on Cailin and Connor's adventures! Connor-that bull fight sounds very upsetting. I think Cailin, Grady and I would be in tears sitting in the stands. With gelato...
Things at home have been relatively uneventful, but I have been doing well at my first real job! I'm doing advertising for a local radio station, which sounds a little bit more glamorous than it is. The job entails a lot of cold calling, a lot of rejection, and not as many perks as I had looked forward to. However, I have met a great group of people and have learned a lot. There are 8 salespeople in the office. Jen and Joel are my age, and we go out to eat often. Rene and Rick have been in the radio business for 30+ years, and they have been really great about giving advice and leading the way. Rene also enjoys wearing Christmas sweaters on Fridays even when it is 20 degrees out (Celsius, not Fahrenheit..we are in Canada!) All in all, working 9 to 5 is much more tedious and boring than Middlebury ever was. I find myself missing Vermont a lot and missing the college life even more. Connor's three-hour siestas each afternoon sound like heaven...
Last week I celebrated my birthday at a new restaurant in the old part of Montreal. The group of us then went over to "Chez Serge", a tiny french bar with a mechanical bull and waitresses in leather jackets and cowboy boots. It reminded me of our trip down south to Nashville when Grady and I moved Cailin in!
I've been in touch with Peter (Martone, not Ross!) who has interviewed for an engineering position on a cruise ship. It would take him to the Caribbean for a year and sounds very exciting. Hopefully he can fly some family and friends out to join him if he takes it! I can see Mama Beth enjoying a daquiri poolside...
Last weekend I was in my very first Christmas show with my new singing group, the Lyric Theater Singers. It's mainly a broadway group but they put on a big Christmas concert every December and all three days were sold out! On the last day we even got a standing ovation. It's definitely helped me make friends and enjoy my time back at home since graduation.
My two kittens, Bear and Olivia, have somehow turned into cats overnight. Bear is nine pounds and gaining and eats everything in sight. Olivia is slightly smaller but still eating her way through an expensive amount of kitten food a week. Since we've started putting up Christmas decorations they have gone absolutely mad. Nothing like tinsel and a kitten...
Planning a trip to visit Middlebury next weekend when Cailin, Grady and Connor are home. Looking forward to seeing everyone and seeing snowy Vermont. And if we're lucky maybe Connor will take us skiing!
Lots of love to everyone. It feels so good to be a part of this blog with you all! :)
xoxox
Kelsey
Sunday, December 9, 2012
The end of the first semester!
I'm about to head into the last week of my first semester as a teacher (which means I will soon enough be flying home to all of you! I can't wait!)
Some triumphs from my first 5 months in the classroom:
-Brandon can now sit in his chair for long periods of time and knows 3 shapes. It's been 2 weeks since he's been sent to the office!
-Zechariah's neighbor shared with us that in the beginning of the school year he could not speak, and now he is having conversations with her.
-Sammie, one of my lowest readers, pushed my hand away from his book on Friday and said "I can read it by myself."
-A woman from the state who gave us our formal observation last Thursday said to me, "I have a grand baby who is thirteen months old, and I would love her to be in this pre-k. I love what you're doing in this classroom."
-Jeremy, the youngest Prepster in the whole school, can write his name, knows his shapes and colors, and understands the concept of patterning.
-Traylan knows all of his sight words (we call them "Popcorn Words"). I made him a crown that said "Popcorn Word King" and his mom told me he wore it to bed three nights in a row.
I'm so proud of all my babies and can't wait to share pictures and stories with you when I'm home. Here's a picture of Traylan in his crown.
And a quote that is keeping me going through this last long week:
"Never give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration you can not go wrong."
One thing's for sure: I love these babies, and they inspire the heck out of me (even when they are wetting their pants for the 6th time in a week or throwing up on my cowboy boots).
See you soon family!
Some triumphs from my first 5 months in the classroom:
-Brandon can now sit in his chair for long periods of time and knows 3 shapes. It's been 2 weeks since he's been sent to the office!
-Zechariah's neighbor shared with us that in the beginning of the school year he could not speak, and now he is having conversations with her.
-Sammie, one of my lowest readers, pushed my hand away from his book on Friday and said "I can read it by myself."
-A woman from the state who gave us our formal observation last Thursday said to me, "I have a grand baby who is thirteen months old, and I would love her to be in this pre-k. I love what you're doing in this classroom."
-Jeremy, the youngest Prepster in the whole school, can write his name, knows his shapes and colors, and understands the concept of patterning.
-Traylan knows all of his sight words (we call them "Popcorn Words"). I made him a crown that said "Popcorn Word King" and his mom told me he wore it to bed three nights in a row.
I'm so proud of all my babies and can't wait to share pictures and stories with you when I'm home. Here's a picture of Traylan in his crown.
"Never give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration you can not go wrong."
One thing's for sure: I love these babies, and they inspire the heck out of me (even when they are wetting their pants for the 6th time in a week or throwing up on my cowboy boots).
See you soon family!
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