LACROSSE 2010!

Lacrosse season has started!

This is my second year coaching Girls Lacrosse at CDH, and I am very excited to start with my team! Tryouts started this week and our teams will be decided next week. The girls are in great shape and are excited to be playing!

I was asked to figure out who I would place on what team... it is a very difficult task and I am just happy that I am not the one to make the final decisions!

A New Direction

I am extremely excited to start this new direction.

For the past year I have been struggling with an allergy to corn, which I didn't fully understand until about eight months ago. I have been so careful to watch almost everything that enters my body, and feeling really sad the whole time. There is a corn product in almost everything. I thought I was being healthy drinking a Gatorade, nope, there is high fructose corn syrup in it.How about a strawberry-kiwi yogurt, nope, there is corn syrup in it. The next time you are making something, drinking something, buying something, take a look at it - and I bet there is corn in it!

The other day as my Mom was watching Oprah, she found something that she thought would interest me. Alicia Silverstone was on the show to discuss her new book and the lifestyle she is now living. My Mother then bought me The Kind Diet, which is a lifestyle layout. After reading three chapters I am no longer going to eat meat. I am going to try a plant based diet which I believe my body is intended to consume.

I am going to try* to become healthier.

After reading the majority of this book, I know that too many connections were made to not try the vegan diet. I am happy to find a possible solution. I am scared to give up meat. I am paranoid that my friends and family will think I'm nuts. But the best part about this whole trip is that my Husband is behind me 100%. Will he give up meat, nope, at least not yet. But he agreed to trying any and everything I make at least once.. and if he doesn't like it he can make his own steak on the grill!

Tonight after Lacrosse practice, and after stopping to check in on my Mom, I plan on going to Whole Foods and try a new meal!

Wish me luck!

*I might fail... who knows if this is the right option before I really start it?!

License

UPDATE: I am a fully licensed teacher in the state of Minnesota!

The state of Minnesota still hasn't approved my two teaching licenses. People who have applied after me have theirs. Well, at least the approval. Not the actual paper one.

Why won't they approve mine?

I am a good student, I have done everything right, and still nothing.

Ready to be done with the hoops.

English Background

As I am a new teacher there are a lot of applications that need to be sent out. Not only for future teaching positions, but also for summer work. As many of these applications are hand-written, it is essential to but your best foot forward.

This is my problem: I can't spell.

Now, I have a B.A. in English Literature, and a teaching license in 5-12 Communication Arts & Literature. You would think I would be a great speller with a wonderfully large vocabulary. I do not. I believe it is because of Word processing. I am not saying it isn't my fault that I can't spell, but I think that because I have always had an 'auto-check spelling' application, I didn't find it necessary to learn how to spell some words.

"You know you can fix that" (my Mom once said)

I realize that if I really, really wanted to fix my spelling habits, I could. However, just like students today don't have to memorize their friends phone numbers (Thank you very much cell phone contact lists) I don't think I should have to take the time to memorize the spelling of certain random words.

My solution: White Out

I have found that on written documents white out is very essential. I know it doesn't look the best, but at least the people viewing it can see that I saw my mistake and took the time to correct it. Please see that I took my time to correct it and call me for an interview. I could really use the 9.00/hour job over the summer.

Now this is what I am talking about! Bring on the misspellings!

Just Starting

Hi, my name is Lindsey.

I have wanted to create a blog for years now, yet I have never felt it was the right time, or I had enough time, or even, enough to write about. I have decided like most events in ones life, there isn't a 'right time' or a 'right place' for anything to happen.

If you don't make it happen, it won't.

I am a reader, not a writer. If you ask many English teachers they will say they are one or the other. While I was student teaching this past school year, I was looked down on from my cooperating teacher because she was a writer and not a reader, and she felt my writing skills were poor. Well, guess what? The state of MN said that my writing skills are good! ha ha. She will never read this. I have found a new level of confidence in my writing skills. I am sure it has something to do with the MN Teaching Standards that I had to complete this year. With this requirement I had to write over 100 pages on what I have learned and have knowledge of about students, learning, teaching, planning, and about everything else that is under the sun.

I am a new teacher, and this is my blog.

I am so confident in my writing skills that my Mother and my Husband are the only ones with access to read my writing, but I believe that will change with time. Since I don't know what direction I am going to take with this blog - much like my thesis - I am going to use it as an outlet for everything that is going on with me and my life. When I don't know where to start with my thesis - this is where I will turn. When I can't sleep at night - this is where I will turn. And when I am at a loss for everything else - this is where I will turn.

Like many people in their twenties, I don't know where I am going, or where I will end up. This will be my outlet for the hamster's workouts.