Spring Breaaaaaaak!

tomorrow... back to school. spring break was great, especially since it started with a fun trip with the tolleys! they visited us and we road tripped to monterey... so beautiful. brett and i are now trying to find a way to live there.



the beach south of monterey:

digging around in the rocks:

i love this picture of mom:


it was such a nice break, but since brett didn't get any time off anyways, i guess it's only fair for me to be going back to work. ahhh... it pays to be a teacher.

And we were attacked by a swarm of... butterflies!

this weekend: we took a mountain-biking/camping trip to the near-by joseph d. grant county park. beautiful. this was our first real mountain biking trip with our new bikes. we love them. it was fun, and we are grateful for every inch of travel on the forks.




the craziest thing about this park was the huge number of butterflies - unlike anything i've ever seen - there were swarms of them - and they just blew in the wind like dry leaves - twice while we were biking they flew right into my face! it was amazing.

Weekend Adventures

This is the County Park we hiked at last weekend. Probably the prettiest of the local ones we've gone to so far - tons of waterfalls! (Yuvas County Park)

School this week

This week the school I teach at is doing "Intersession," which means all the teachers teach different classes - and the kids get to take a break from their regular schedule and take classes just for fun. So, my teaching day consists of teaching flag football, watching "love flicks," and teaching algebra review. It is quite a change from teaching English and Reading all day. And I love it!!

As for Brett, he's just started the accounting "busy season," so I don't see him til btwn 9:30 and 10 pm. It's pretty rough, but hopefully it will be over by mid-March. We hope.

What have you been up to lately?

P.S. It's sunny and "warm" in San Jose today!!!

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.