my younger years:

sophomore - my friends
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this weekend my dear friend Omar (third from the right) is visiting. he is my best friend from the university of michigan - we have always been there for each other, and I can't wait to show him my home in southern california!

tonight we are driving to see my sister in San Francisco - a six to eight hour ride, depending on how many candy stops I make. poor oms, lucky me ;)

More when we return!

guess who i am

Hint: For the past three weekends I've been cooped up in a Mariott hotel suite with eight rambunctious strangers.

A) Kate Moss B)insert witty choice c) me! check it out:
























Being in the same class as Pete was difficult. As you all know I have a slight competitive streak inherited from... well, both mother and father. I went a bit crazy with my three page lesson plans, overly decorated poster boards, rapid fire note taking, etc. But I did earn the top-student place! (although there were only ten student students in all) I was feeling like the high priestess of TEFL in the car on the way home - a know it all, bragging, pompous high priestess - and Pete brought me down to reality. Thank God for Pete and his good old fashioned honesty.

So now I am taking that competitive zeal and putting it towards finding myself a job. Although I really love the idea of teaching in Argentina, je je je, I don't really love subsisting on 300 US dollars a month.


I have devised this short list of possible places, let me know what you think:

• Japan
  
• Malaysia
  
• South Korea
  
• 
  
• Dubai
  
• Egypt
  
• 
  
• Spain
  
• France
  
• Hungary
  
• Norway
  
• Holland
  

Happy Valentine's....

i'm visiting this lil' girl this weekend!

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my first blog entry! So very California, so very cliché. But blogging (verb??) is a good-as-any way of keeping in touch with sisters, parents, relatives, college friends, high school friends, random acquaintances, creepy stalkers, internet prowlers... I could go on. But I won't. Might as well do SOMEthing at work, am I right? Welcome.