I worked Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday this week. The employees that have worked at the Boys and Girls Club for longer than a couple of weeks all went on a “retreat” this Friday and Saturday. I didn’t qualify so I got it off. It’s probably for the best, it’s been an interesting start. I don’t mean interesting as a bad thing, it’s just been a lot of work. I’m expecting next week to go a little smoother now that I have an idea of what’s expected of me. The kids are a lot younger than I was expecting so that’s taken a little getting used to. All the ideas I had seem a little too complex. I’ll save them and maybe can fit them in later when I’m more settled. We’ll see. I’ve got lot to do and haven’t had a lot of time to do it. I guess that’s life as a teacher.

That’s about it. I can’t believe May’s almost over. The summer will be over before I know it.

P.S. I’ve got my first cover!

School ended last week and it felt amazing. The last couple of weeks seemed to drag on and I was just wanting to take the finals and be done with them. Well they’re done now and next year I’ll be a senior. I’ve got a fairly normal Fall semester planned finishing up some general classes. Next January I’ll be spending time in an ESL (English as a Second Language Language) classroom for the month. It’s looking like I’ll be able to do this at home with my mom since she’s the ESL Coordinator for the Battle Ground School District. After that I’ll be student teaching! It’ll probably be a quick year. I ended up with a 3.72 this semester. Not too shabby.

I was recently hired at a Boys and Girls Club here in Spokane. They have a computer lab that’s not being used like they want and need someone to get it into shape and teach the students about all sorts of things about computers. They also have a music room with many guitars and no teachers. I’m really excited for this opportunity and will be looking to build all sorts of teaching skills this summer. It’s full time and I start on Tuesday.

Other than that there’s not much going on. I just got back from Camas. I delayed working so I could go home for a few days. I’m not sure when I’ll get another chance this summer. We’ll see how my work schedule goes. I’ve got a new song that may be recorded soon so keep watching for that. Yay!

I’ve got this week, next week, and then finals week.  It’s been getting busy so it’ll be good so see the end.

I got together with Shaun Templeton yesterday and we recorded a new song.  Well I recorded and he produced it I guess.  Shaun’s the husband of a coworker at Whitworth.  We spend about five hours recording and rerecording and still had time to deliver a chair.  Originally we were going to rerecord an old song of mine but I wrote this new one so we decided to go with that one.  We still want to add some things but I think it’s post worth.

The song’s called You Found Me.  It’s kind of me telling myself that the perfect girl I have imagined for me isn’t at all what I’m going to get.

You Found Me

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I never thought I’d be with a girl who was like you
Those things you do and things you can’t boggle the mind
I surprise myself falling deeper into love with you
And I wonder what my life would be like
If I got exactly what I wanted in a girl
I know that you would never have been inside my world

She considers sleeping in to be 5 or 6
She’d rather read then to watch our favorite TV show
And she couldn’t sing a song in key to save her life
Who thought what I’d wanted
Was not at all what I needed nor what was planned for for me
I’m glad there’s someone always watching over me