Viva Mexico

Well, Tim and I booked our honeymoon! We're going to an all-inclusive resort called Sandos Caracol Beach Resort & Spa in Yucatan, Mexica at Playa del Carmen. They were having a really good special and it seemed like an awesome place so we made a reservation. Our plan is to get two separate sets of round trip tickets; one from Anchorage to Dallas, and then from Dallas to Cancun with the return from Cancun arriving hopefully just before our return from Dallas to Anchorage.

I went to a Preschool near my apartment that was hiring to talk to the administrator. They are looking for a lead teacher for the 4-year-old class. It seemed like a nice facility, but I can actually make more money substitute teaching with more freedom. I wouldn't have any vacation time at this school for a very long time. They only get major holidays off, and there is no curriculum, just themes for each week. I will be working on more classes for my master's program this fall so I really would like a job that I don't have to think about when I'm home (unlike full-time teaching). So my plan is to sub and keep applying for teacher assistant jobs in the school district. Subs actually make more an hour than teacher assistants, but of course there are no benefits.

Tonight Tim and I have an all-nighter at the church building with his and another church's youth group. They've done service projects for the last two days. The first night they went on a food scavenger hunt where they split up into teams and went asking people they knew to donate food for the local food bank. Last night was called "Barnabus Night" and I went to help drive, even though I ended up not needing to. We again split up into teams and pooled our money (everyone was asked to bring $5) and had an hour and a half to go out and serve people any way we chose. Our group decided to go to Costco and buy bottled water, snacks, and ziplock bags and put together packages to give out to homeless people. As Tim drove from the store to downtown, the three high schoolers we had and I feverishly put all our supplies in the bags, and had a total 76 bags. We ended up passing out 52 of them. It was a little scary at first, but it was pretty fun once we gave out a few and saw how thankful they were, and some people even asked for them who I wouldn't think would need or want one. Tonight we are taking gatorade and water to a disk golf course to offer them to players and joggers who are there, then going back to the church building to play games and hang out until 9 AM tomorrow.

Yesterday I bought several pieces of furniture for my apartment: coffee table, bookshelf, desk, and TV cart and tomorrow Tim and I get to put them together. Hopefully my place will start to look like a home. :-)

Well, I need to go get ready for tonight, so I'm signing off for now!