Its better than I thought! (Stacey)
One of my fav pics!!
2nd Day of Teaching...
You know how some people just say how awful something is going to be, and how you are going to be miserable, and hate it, and run screaming as fast as you can. Thats how it was for student teaching. Everyone was trying to "prep" us for the worst, and the truth was, it wasn't bad at all... okay except for when my teacher went a little nuts. Anyway, my point is...teaching is fun. I feel like I was just born to do it. I love being in my own classroom, with my own grade book, and my own students and my own dry erase board that i can write WHATEVER i want on!
Today I gave the students the following ingredients... eggs, vegetable oil, salt, sugar, flour, choc chips, cocoa, vanilla...and I said, try to make something without having a recipe! Their inventions were sooo fun to see. Since they are beginning foods class, they had no idea how to put ingredients together to create something good. They made cookies, brownies, muffins. The recipe was for brownies, but they didn't know it. The results....perfect. Perfect as in HORRIBLE, except for the lab group of boys that named theirs "THE KICK A** Brownies Mon" and they really did taste good. Maybe even better then mine ( the correct recipe) Others seemed more along the line of dog treats, and brown mud. I wanted them to see the importance of following a recipe, and how measuring DOES effect the outcome. I think they got the point. One boy begged me to never leave them without a recipe again!
I think Maryland is going to be great.
Comments
This is Jake Nelson. Future luckiest man ever (a.k.a. Stacey's fiance). In an attempt to change the world or just do one little good thing here and there, I've decided to make something known. And seeing as the internet is the quickest way to communicate I thought I'd start here. I'm a regular guy from Pleasant Grove, Utah. I, like most of you, enjoy a good relaxing drive on a sunday afternoon. But the only problem today is that the oil companies have a rope around our necks allowing us to go only as far as our wallets will allow. Remember when a 20 dollar bill would fill up our tank and buy us a bag of Cheetos and a Sprite (a good sized one)? But, ever since the initial raise in gas prices over the last few years these companies have kept them as high as they are, simply because they can. We pay a minimum of $2.75/gallon (in some cases $4.00 or more) because we really have no other choice. When will prices go down? It depends on when people decide to do something about it. I was listening to a news-radio station a little while ago and this very topic came up, as it has many times since, and the host had the idea that he'd set a date to have all his listeners decide to 'stand up', in a sense, and not purchase anything at all from a gas station anywhere for the whole day. I acted on it. I don't know how many others did as well, but I'm sure it made somewhat of a difference. So I thought I'd conduct the same thing. On Thursday May 10 and May 17 please join me in an attempt to make an impact on these overwhelming gas prices. As a small part of society we should be able make ourselves heard. Just like the bus boycotts and restaurant sit-ins of the late 20th century and many other big acts by small individuals made to be heard, even today, lets try to do something that matters. If you are filthy rich and don't mind offering up your first born child to the co-wealthy gas gods or simply don't think that continuously skyrocketing gas prices has much of an influence on you then don't mind my attempts to try to make things as they should be. If you do think that something should be done about it please send this to 5 or 10 people youthink might feel the same way (just to get the word out) and remember May 10 and 17. This is our time to shine. Spread the word. Your friend... or future family member,
jake
p.s. this email was originally an email I sent out to friends and family.