Time Flies

      September 10th!?  Really!?  It is hard to believe it is already September 10th.  Where did the time go?  They say time flies when you're having fun.  I'm curious though how fast does time move when your life revolves around work and school work? 
      Golf has been keeping me busy with tournaments nearly every day of the week.  My girls are really starting to shoot well.  I'm very proud of them!  The weather here has been beautiful so it's really been a pleasure to join them at practice and matches.  Can't beat it!  My own game is improving even though I still contend that golf is one of the most awkward sports.  Oh and I have to give up the mini van for two days.  I'm not really sure I will know how to function.  I get it back on Wednesday but it will be tough to part with. I may shed a tear. haha!
      The classes I'm teaching have really been going great!  I have had a few individual butting of heads but seriously best year ever so far!  Next week Psychology is going to be watching One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.  Yay! World History is taking their first test this week so I'm excited to see how that will go.  I'm out of the building so much over the next several weeks I'm not even sure how I will be able to write that many lesson plans.  It is way easier just to be there!  I'm out Sept. 14, 15, 20, 26, 28, and Possibly Oct. 4, 5.  And I'm in charge of the Homecoming Parade by some sort of default when my good friend Colette left the building.  So that's another bit of stuff to do.  Oh, classes are great but the grading of papers, Woah!  :)
       The classes I'm taking have SO much work due.  School Law should really be taken on it's own.  But, I'm in that class and School and Community Relations taught by a first time professor for Northwest so I think he's trying to make the rigor of the class something to be reckoned with.  I am also very slowing working on my hours for Admin practicum.  Exciting times!  Oh and that giant paper, I'm not even going to touch that until next semester!  I can't!
      I have really found a new passion for fund-raising.  It's weird.  I am not very good at saving my own money so this comes as a surprise to me.  I am currently raising money for the amazingly important cause of Alzheimer's research.  My own grandmother is very severely struggling right now.  She's almost all I can think about when I'm not busy.  After the Alzheimer's Walk in October I will be shifting my focus back to Breast Cancer for the remainder of the year.  I, along with some help have talked 6 people in to shaving their heads if they were voted to do so by the students after a major fund-raising campaign.  4 of the 6 current teachers signed up are girls!  That's awesome!  We are hoping to get at least 4 more teachers and raise a few thousand dollars in a "penny wars" type of event.  The three staff with the most money in their buckets at the end of the year will have their heads shaved at an assembly.  All the money will go towards the support of a cure and research for Breast Cancer.  I also think it may impact the students in a very real way.  One of my basketball mom's just finished her chemo intensive treatments and a current student of mine, her mom is in remission.  I'm sure there are more.  The other day at church Pastor asked what our God given goals were and I know I was commissioned to be a coach.  But it's also something I love and maybe hope that it's God's goal for me.  But fund-raising is all I could think of while Pastor was talking.  I can't make a living doing it but I can make an impact.  That's a pretty cool thing. 
      Writing this was a little bit therapy, and a lotta bit putting off doing more school work.  I guess I had better get back to it soon.  Hope everyone is going well!