City Life Blues...

Ok, I'm back. Finally. This city life thing has been quite an adjustment. Hence the fact that I haven't written on this blog in months and months.
Well anyways, I am teaching at a high school in downtown San Jose. I knew that teaching inner-city kids would be quite different from teaching kids on the North Shore of Oahu. But still, it has been, in many ways, much more difficult than I had tried to imagine.
Oh well... I'm just taking one day at a time basically. And trying to focus on the few hours of my life that I enjoy = getting home. making dinner. sitting down. seeing brett (after he gets home, usually around 8:30pm)

anyways, i have this terrible habit of whining about this new city life, so i'll stop right now.
to celebrate my birthday, i am taking this friday off, and looking forward to that is making this week look much brighter.

thanks to lanell, allyson, mikila, nancy, and friends who have called me out of my hole and asked me to be responsive and human again. i am coming back!

and guess what: thanksgiving is coming soon. i'm sure you're looking forward to it as much as i am. ben, esther, and her husband brian are coming to san jose to celebrate! yeah, that should be nice.

Less than 2 months Left in Paradise!

yikes! we are leaving hawaii in less than 2 months.
so we're trying to just enjoy our last few weeks as much as possible, which has become more difficult because we are now without any vehicle. our beloved "eve" died, and we are now on foot, so it has become difficult to explore as much as we used to.
we now mostly go to hukilau beach (pictured above, on our blog title) which is great too. hey, we can't complain - we live within walking distance of a tropical beach, right?

Camping on the Ridge in Sunset, HI

Last week we went camping in the mountain ridges on North Shore. It turned out to be quite the adventure, complete with a mysterious hovering helecopter, strange sounds in the night, and ground too hard to sleep much. (at least for Brett - turns out I can sleep anywhere)
I can't wait to go again!

brett's bodacious burn

here is what happens when you go to the beach 2 days in a row - after not going to the beach for 3 weeks.

turns out you get to have a new sleeping partner - a fan. (this is in addition to the 3 fans that regularly blow on our bed)