A Song That I Can Dance To: The Macarena

Ok, so probably not what the music challenge meant, but I do what I want and I chose a song that I know the dance to. I was in elementary school when this came out and I remember having a ward event on a ranch and my dad taught the primary kids this dance. If you know my dad at all, this is even more bizarre.

Apparently if you dance to the Macarena you are dancing your way into a healthier life:

Now, I love the Macarena, Electric Slide, and Cotton-Eyed Joe as much as the rest Mormon girl, but really I love to dance to something with a good, heavy hitting bass and a quick beat (hip hop, of course).

Halloween

I have a confession to make. Halloween freaks me out a little bit. I don't think that devils or witches or ghosts wander free. It's nothing like that. Really it's all about the masks and not knowing who people are just by glancing. That really stresses me out! Don't get me wrong, I think dressing up is fun and I love the unique and bizarre costumes and all. I guess it's just me being a baby or something. My strange fear was especially heightened at the Alpine Village Halloween dance party (yeah...). There were plenty of people (guys, I'm guessing) in their creepy masks, but it wasn't just the creepy ones that got me. There was this short little awkward guy in an Iron Man mask that stressed me out like nobody's business. Throw in the crazy Halloween lighting and oy, creepy. Pretty much any full face mask gets my pulse racing a little bit, but definitely the ones like this picture are the worst.

Westmore

Yesterday I started my second practicum at Westmore Elementary School in Orem. The cooperating teacher is essentially magic. I don't know how she does it, but she's a super star. Yesterday there were about 11 people in her class to observe her teach, she'd gotten back from vacation at 3am that morning, and somehow still managed to pull off a fantastic amount of teaching. I was reeling just from watching.

Not to mention I'm partners with Sarah, who (whom?) I just love so it's a good time. And the school provided us with a "treasure box" full of things we might need like tissues, band-aids, post-its, highlighters, pens, white board markers, tape, glue, crayons, etc. Then when we came in this morning there was a desk set up for us with two chairs, name cards, candy, and our treasure box. Seriously, our cooperating teacher is better than yours.

Today we went on a walking field trip with the other fourth grade class. Essentially we had about 60 people (most children) walking a mile in the snow to a theater to watch a play. The play was kind of cute, but a little weird in my opinion. Some of the kids were wild, some hated the walk, I know at least one adult took a little nap in the middle of the play. Then we walked back and had lunch and math and recess and that was pretty much it.

I'm learning all the kids' names finally. I know I've only been there since yesterday, but they tell us to learn all the names the first day (which I definitely failed at doing). Tomorrow we're going to sit down and plan out all of our assignments and the other stuff we have to get done before we go back to college.

The kids were introduced to their historical fiction unit today. One of their book options was this one:

I remember reading it when I was in fifth grade. I remember loving it (even though historical fiction isn't usually my cup of tea), and now I just want to read it again. Maybe after I finish Chains and get it back to Sarah I'll work on this one.

P.S. BYU basketball starting tonight? Yes please and yum.

Welcome back Nick Martineau. Mmm.

Food Network

I love the FoodNetwork. If I could be real life friends with a channel, it would totally be the food network. Not only are there spectacular shows like Chopped and Challenge, but the personalities are fantastic. Adam Gertler, Alton Brown, Ted (who doesn't get a last name because he's just Ted), Duff, Bobby Flay. Then there are the wicked judges like Alex Guarnaschelli and Amanda Freitag that give you someone to hate. Yes, I am in love with this channel.

A Song That I Know All the Words To: Makes Me Ill

Who didn't love N*SYNC back in the day? No Strings Attached was basically awesome. And who would have thought that Justin Timberlake would turn out to be a giant superstar and that the one guy would play a Greek? Go figure.

That being said, I always loved this song. Particularly the part at the beginning that is fast and slightly rap-like. Some of my friends seem to be amazed when the realized I can still sing the whole thing. Now I need to go listen to some more nostalgia inducing things...like Aaron's Party...again.

What I Do With My Life

Do you know what I do with my life?

Homework.

Classes.

Lectures.

Church.

Chill with Sarah on weekends.

BYU football.

Pray for basketball season.

More homework.

Write to-do lists.

Make myself feel like I finish my to-do lists because I cross stuff out and move it to other days.

The end.

Edit: want.

What Did I Just Watch?

I got really excited when I heard JK Rowling was going to be on Oprah. I set it up to TiVo and finally got time to watch it today. The title of the episode was "Oprah and JK Rowling in Scotland." The title of the episode should have been "Rich Women Talk About How Great it is to be Rich While Drinking Tea and Sometimes Life is Hard."

Boo and disappointment.