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Friday, 28 March 2008

  • Back from Mexico

    So we are back from Mexico.  Nik and I spent the last week in Mexicali with other leaders and some high school students from the school he teaches at.  It was fun.  I was super impressed with the amount of responsiblity that the students showed.  Seriously, they put on a VBS for a local village on their own.  The leaders didn't have to constantly refocus them and tell them what to do.  In fact, the leaders didn't really have to do much.  So it was fun, but I'm super tired and dirty...well not anymore....I showered....but my suitcase is full of dirt and dusty clothes.

    Last Friday, I received a call from the YMCA.  I was starting to get nervous because the interview lady hadn't called to set up a second interview (which she said she would by the end of that week).  Finally on Friday she called and offered me a job!  And the best news....it will give me full time hours!  I don't think it has benefits though, but that's ok.  More good news...the position is as a preschool teacher at the center on Jefferson street, which is like two blocks away from our apartment!  I could totally walk there!  Nik says no to walking, but I say the conversation is not over yet.  So I start on Monday.  I'm excited and now Nik is officially the "big commuter", having to drive a whole 1.5 miles down the street to go to work

Tuesday, 18 March 2008

  • New Job!

    I got a new job!  I don't know all the details...but this is what I do know: It's in Riverside and it's not a group home.  Do I need to know more?  Anyways, I'll be working at the YMCA with their childcare program.  I was so excited to be offered a job that was close and not a group home, that I forgot to ask the important details...like is it full time, are there benefits, etc.  So I find all that out today.  Hopefully the news is good!  I'm excited though.  It'll be nice to have normal hours and actually have a weekend!  And...I'll get to spend more time with Nik.  I'm gonna bug him so much, he'll be sick of me within a week!

    UPDATE:  So...here's the thing.  Turns out the position (although not full time) was Mon-Friday, 35 hours.  Which would be good.  No benefits, but that's ok.  I mooch off of Nik's anyway.  So I call in to the YMCA and ask to speak with the lady that I had interviewed with on Friday.  Turns out she doesn't work there anymore.  She quit, apparantly hours after my interview.  And the lady who has filled her position, has no idea of the position that I was supposed to receive.  The lady that interviewed me left no information on it.  So I re-interviewed with this new lady.  She seemed to really like me, but needs to do a second interview, which she said she'll call me for sometime this week.  She was really trying to get me to take this afterschool position, but I kept pushing for the other position I was offered, because there would be more hours.  Turns out, I think they are one and the same.  Looks like I will be working with school aged kids (mainly kindergarten).  I'm hoping I'll still be able to get the 35 hours instead of 25, but we'll see.  So yeah...that's that.

Friday, 07 March 2008

  • Europe...

     So I'm back from Europe, about to get back into the "swing" of things....unfortunately that includes work and school.  Hopefully my work situation will be changing soon!  So Europe...it was fun!  Though it sucked that Nik couldn't come.  I missed him, and I heard that he was pathetic while I was gone.  Haha.  But Scotland was pretty and I got a toy bagpipe, which I figured out how to work, but it only really plays one note.  I also went shooting.  I wasn't very good, only hit a couple of the clay pigeons, but it was still fun.  London was cool.  I like their transportation system....we could go everywhere with the subway and buses!  It was easy.  I wish the LA metro didn't suck so bad.  In London I went on a Jack the Ripper tour and walked around the different places he killed girls.   The tour guide was really fun, but on crack and totally left the group in this sketch area so he could go to this pub to discuss a book about Jack the Ripper with one of the guys.  Anyways...the trip was fun...but I was so ready to come home! 

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Thursday, 21 February 2008

  • VIDEOS!!!

    Ok, so while xanga is much cooler...I, however, am not as entertaining as I once was.  I don't know if I was ever that entertaining or if I just thought I was.  How did I manage to write so often about nothing?  I have no idea....stupid growing up...I'm getting boringer (yes that's a word, or at least it is now).  Anyways...know what's not boring??? VIDEOS!!!!!!1  I posted a few awhile ago, I'm not sure if anyone watched them....but there's gansta wrap and the purity video...oh and the wrenchy ransom video!  Go check them out!  I'm still trying to upload the rhythmic gymnastics video. 

    So...what's new...hopefuly my job soon!  I finished my last two classes for the early chilhood 12 core units.  So now hopefully I can get a job at a preschool!  I'm leaving on Sunday to go to Scotland and England for my sister's wedding.  But when I get back, I'm gonna start job hunting!  I went through the restraint training at work, so now I can restrain kids.  Sounds sick, but I'd much rather be actively helping a kid stay safe, than have to deal with the mouthy disrespectful ones.  I'm horrible I know!

    k that's all for now folks!  Talk to you in another month! haha

Tuesday, 08 January 2008

  • So we meet again Xanga world...

    I'm baaaaaack!

    So it has been awhile....to say the least.  What the heck happened to xanga?  It's all different.  I feel like an old person trying to figure out how to work a computer.  Sorry if the page looks tacky, I haven't been able to figure out how to change all of the colors yet.  Man I'm so lame.

    So...almost two years.  Last time I posted on here I was still in college.  I miss that.  CBU didn't exactly pay off in the job world, but socially, it was fun.  Hanging out, making silly videos, sleeping through class, bs-ing papers, relying on mom and dad to pay the bill....those were the days.

    Anyways...so yeah....I'm married.  Married life is cool.  I thought it would be harder than it is, but I'm probably still in that "honeymoon" stage. 

    Righ now, I'm working at a group home.  For the past year and a half I've worked at two different group homes, enjoying being cussed out and stressed out daily.  It's fun...really.   Ok...but there are positives.  I really enjoyed the first house I worked at.  Sometimes the girls would be off the wall, but toward the end we had a really good group of girls.  And they enjoyed playing card games and scrabble, which was awesome!  After filling in as the supervisor for about a month, I realized that I don't think social services is the right field for me.  I had thought about going into social work, and I had heard that they had like a lot of caseloads, but the reality of that didn't really set in with me until I had to act as the supervisor, attend several hours of meetings a day, complete multiple lengthy reports on clients, lead group therapy sessions and in the middle of all that I would get calls to go take care of girls who were acting out, running through traffic, awoling to target, chugging down handfuls of pills.  Plus the girls still wanted to spend time hanging out with me, which was the main reason I wanted to go into the social work field to begin with.  But I learned that the actual relationship building time happens after the work day, because the normal eight hour work day is consumed with meetings, and paperwork.  I realized that I love kids and I want to work with them and mentor them, but I also love my family and friends and work can't be my life.  I was putting in 8 to 10 hours of work, driving 4 to 5 hours a day, and that's not even including hanging out with the clients.  So I realized that social work would be even more demanding.  I didn't want my job to take up my entire life.  And kids in the system need and deserve social workers that are willing to be easily available, even when they are off the clock.  So....I don't think social work is my thing.  Right now I'm taking classes at RCC for Early Childhood Education.  I look forward to working at a preschool and maybe eventually getting my credential to work at an elementary school.

    So...that was long.  I'm tired.  K bye.

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