Long time no blog. Well, I have been really busy....
On Sunday, I went to the Istria Cafe with my roomie Amanda to do hw without the distraction of internet. Istria Cafe is soooo cute and I loved their coffee and chocolate biscotti. I ordered a mocha and let me tell you, the two shots of expresso really got to me. I used to be not affected by caffiene at all, but boy was I jittery. Surprisingly, I wrote my entire paper when I was there. Yahooooo! Turned it in that day and received a 4.0 on it. Yes! BUT, I got 80/90 on my Unit Plan Project which is like a 3.0. BOOOOOOOOO! I guess grad school isn't as easy as I had hoped..... Anyway, my Hard Candy haul came today! Yahooooooo. The items I got are extremely CUTE! Pics and review later on. Although I do plan to give some as presents for Xmas. ;D

Anyway, about the Parent Interview Project....I interviewed one of my student's mom this morning and she was super nice and sweet. She told me she had fun and I gave my thanks and whatnot. After the interview, she asked if she could "talk to me outside"..... I was thinking, "Oh, she must be concerned about her daughter in the class or whatever". But, what she wanted was $5 from me for her to buy a bus pass. I felt horrible, because I did not bring my wallet. I also felt kind of uncomfortable....I don't know...I guess this is a reality of urban schools.

Ok, so I've started my Guided Lead Teaching in Literacy and Math this Monday. So far so good. No MAJOR complains, but they are on the noisy annoying side most of the time. Also, I'm gonna have to crank out some major work during my train ride home to E.L. I'm going home on Friday (actually leaving early) to go visit friends in E.L. Going to be fun hanging out with friends and dballs for Halloween. I'm going to be Gothic Lolita again. My costume wasn't quite finished last year and also, I only went to one lousy party. No one saw me. It's cool. ;)

Anyway, updates on that afterwards. :)

I am the BIGGEST procrastinator in the world. If you cannot tell, I am super duper stressed. I've been this way for the last two weeks and I will be this way for the coming weeks as well. I've been lesson planning, lesson planning, lesson planning, and lesson planning lately. It blows big balls. I'm actually one hour away from my deadline and I'm sitting here, facebooking and blogging. GREAT use of time in my opinion.

But besides the stress, things have been looking up with d-balls. I'm going to East Lansing next weekend for Halloween! Hopefully it will be loads of fantastical fun. :D

Oh yea, I didn't work out for like 3 days in a row so I'm feeling kind of depressed about myself. I need to get back on track today! Damn lesson plans! Damn school! It's taking a toll on my health.  T_T

I turned in my project 4 minutes before it was due. Now I'm working on another one that is due in a few hours. I'm horrible. I'm having a horrible week. I've been down a lot. Something has been bothering me. Something he said. I don't know what to do. I'm just hurting inside, but I can't/don't want to show it.

I've been pretty down, stressed, tired, overall blah lately. Today started out horribly. Woke up and noticed that my roomie wasn't awake yet, so before I went out I knocked on her door and she just ignored me. So I was pretty worried the whole day at school. Turns out she had/has a fever and was out of it. At school, I had to take the 4th graders up to the science room for math. They were so annoying, no even funny. They're unmotivated, doesn't follow directions, whiny, and just plain annoying sometimes. I mentioned their behavior to my CT and she made them apologize to me. I could tell that most of their apologies weren't sincere so I just said "ok". We also got a new student in today. He's not exactly "new", but is new to our class. He is special ed and has someone with him the whole time. I hope it stays that way. When his helper was not there for a few minutes, he grabbed my arm and also tried to open my jacket. Then when he was by the bathroom, he pushed me on my boob and also slapped by butt. I told him that's inappropriate and he said "ok". I hope it's not going to be a problem later on. If it is, I feel really uncomfortable with him in the class. I'm also way behind in homework, projects, whatever. I'm also sort of unhappy about d-balls right now. I don't want to be that annoying girlfriend, but I want to be open. I'm just trying to block out all emotions right now. I need to focus on work, but it's hard. I've been sleeping horribly too. I want to go away. To Japan or someplace by myself.

Yay! I got a part time job as a receptionist at the Japanese Spa Zen. Oooohohohohoho. Finally some extra $$ for food and shopping. :) Yay! I've always wanted to be a receptionist. For some reason, typing on a computer, taking phone calls, sweeping hair, and saying, "Hi, welcome to Japanese Spa Zen!" seems like the perfect job for me. To top it all off with icing, my boss is Japanese and has a Japanese speaking husband. When I went for my job "interview" today, she spoke to me mostly in Japanese. I understood most of it and could respond. I think this is going to be great practice for me! Also, on the way to the salon, I found out that the new sushi restaurant on 53rd is opened today! Wowzerz! Hope it's good. Anyway, I'm still screwed cause I'm up to my neck in homework. Ugh for being a procrastinator.

I fucken suck at life. I didn't go to the gym today and to top it off, I am way fucken behind in my course work. Fuck. Also got a 3.5 on my Lesson Study Project. Fuck. Life is not that great right now...

Grrr. So I've had back luck with technology lately. Firstly, I had no internet set up at my apartment to begin with. Had to wait like 2+ weeks to get it. Before I got internet (i got it today!), I went to Soundbar with Hannah, got totally trashed and left my phone there. It's totally gone. That is SO unlike me. I don't ever want to get to the point where I'm so drunk that I don't even take care of the things I treasure so much..... grrrrrr. To top it all off, before I lost my phone, I dropped my laptop. I had to steal internet connection from my neighbors and the only spot at my apt with decent connection was in the kitchen. I set my laptop in front of the microwave. It's just enough space but it was fine. I was probably standing there 1+ hour until......I was getting ready to take my laptop back to my room and boom! Dropped that sucker to the floor. It wasn't broken or anything, but the hard drive did suffer from the fall. I don't know what exactly is the problem, but I took it to the Apple Store downtown and found out that I needed about $500 to fix it. So I got a macbook. :D with a free HP printer :D and an ipod nano :D Now I just need my phone!  Muahahhahahaha.

p.s. I don't really know if I should be happy that I'm getting all these new stuff or I should be devastated because I'm a poor college kid that is heavily relying on technology. (-_-;;) **sigh**

I've arrived in my new home for the next year or so. Chicagooooo!!! Chi-Townnnn! Andrew and I came by megabus from Ann Arbor and we stayed at his friend's Hannah's place for a few days. She has an awesome location with an awesome roof top/pool. I'm so glad I know Hannah.....now I have someone that I actually want to hang out with and not people I hang out with because I have no one else to...you get my drift? Anyway, we did a lot for the past few days. Jun Jun, Angel, Mickey, and Ashlee also came and they are super fun as always. I've been eating well and walking a lot too. ;)

Today, I went to "move in", but Claudio was no where to be found. Finally, he shows up with a Mickey D's iced coffee in hand and was all talks as usual. Now I have all my stuff in the apartment. Just have to wait till they are done painting and cleaning it up. Will officially sign the lease and the whole shazam on Monday (hopefully -_-;;) Now I am just chilling at my sister's place in Lincoln Park for the time being. I really love her place!

Everything is pretty exciting, but I have to say that from the moment I left Andrew at the bus stop, I've been missing him since. No one to hold my hand or make inappropriate jokes with. ;( Miss him so much....

Wow, the more time I have, the less I update. hahaha. Anyways....A lot has happened since my last real update. :)

Good stuff that is. I graduated from MSU~~~ I'll be doing my internship in Chicago. Hopefully, it'll be worth it cause I'm going to be spending a lot more than I would being at home. I think it'll be a good experience though. Both for me to be more independent and gain experience with urban teaching. I'll be leaving a lot of things behind though :(
My mom will be living alone in Michigan...well my dad visits every week, but I know she gets lonely when I'm not there. Who's gunna go shopping with her and tell her the truth about clothes, etc.? haha. Also, not going to be able to see d-balls as often too.... :( Hopefully, everything will work out.

On a side note, ever since coming home and that Chicago trip, I've been SUPER out of shape. Sorta gross actually. I neeeeddddddd to get back in shape. I hate this. :( Considering alli..... >.<