Monday, February 1, 2016
January 30,2016: Kodiak's got moves
These are junior high and high school kids break dancing. It was awesome. 
I went to the dance showcase tonight to see the high school kids dance performances in ballet, swing dance, modern, jazz, some cool kicking dance thing, and hip hop. Loved it!
January 29, 2016: Hike to Boyscout
I skipped the brewery today for a hike with these three. So worth it! We have now had three sunny days this week, and I am beginning to feel spoiled!! This hike was really cold. Arthur never complained once, but when I picked him up for this picture he was shivering uncontrollably. By the time we got back to the house, he walked in and immediately started panic crying because his hands and feet were so cold. He was such a good sport on the hike! 
January 28, 2016: mountain man in the making
Can you just picture an ax in his hand and a beard on his face? 
January 27, 2016: Tom Hanks winter marathon begins now
Have you seen the video that Tom Hanks does with James Corden on the Late Late Show where they act out all the videos he has been in? In under 7 minutes. It's pretty amazing and if you haven't seen it, you definitely should. I love Tom Hanks, and through this video, I realized there are a ton of his movies I have never seen or even heard of. I made it my goal to watch as many as possible this winter. One of my friends here has a ton of them, so we started the marathon this week by watching "Joe vs. The Volcano. It is from the 80s, has Meg Ryan in it, and is pretty phenomenal. I laughed the whole movie (it's so ridiculous!) but it also has some really deep moments that really touched me. Joe is this guy who is basically a loser and is doing nothing with his life. He finds out he is dying, so this rich guy hunts him down and offers to pay for him to spend the last few months of his life to live out an adventure sailing to an exotic island. The catch is that he has to sacrifice himself by jumping into a volcano to appease this island god so the rich man can continue to use the island for his business. Still with me? During part of his journey, Meg Ryan tells Joe that out of all the people living life, only a few of them are truly alive, living life to its fullest. Everyone else is basically dead. That really resonated with me. What does it look like for me to live life as someone who is truly alive? Being someone who loves Jesus, what does it look like for me to be living in a way that is always pointing back to Him? Because that's what being alive should be for me. I love that Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan, and a volcano challenged me the way they did this week.
January 26, 2016: THAT is sun. Beautiful sun.
Ahhhh!! Do you see that?!!! Blue!!! Is this really happening!?! Hallelujah! (sung. Obviously.)
These are just a few things I heard yelled (mostly by teachers) when we stepped outside for recess today. Friends, it had been raining FOR SO LONG. Or at least gray, but mostly just nasty, sideways rain. I glanced around and kids (KIDS! Crazy, energetic, kids) were just standing in the sun, soaking it up. There was a faint rainbow in the distance. I had two kids ask me if they could have permission to go hunt for the gold and were legitimately upset when I said it was fine as long as they stayed on the playground to do so. Like I was an idiot to think the gold would be on the playground and a beastly human for not allowing them to run miles away to get it. Best 10 minutes of recess duty in a while!
January 25, 2016: This Girl's a Champ.
Michele is my teaching partner, meaning she teaches the other first grade class at Peterson. I love giving her a hard time. Especially because she tends to get embarrassed in front of a larger group of people. She and I, along with a few other of our coworkers are taking a class on Monday nights. Michele had to skype in because she couldn't be here in person, which is easy enough because teachers who teach at the rural schools on the island also skype in every week. We always laugh because inevitably one teacher's face is always way bigger on the computer screen than the other teachers and we joked with Michele that is was going to be her this week... And of course it was. So throughout the class, we tried to make her feel extra self conscious by texting her pictures of herself, yelling things to her through the computer, waving at her. True friends. 
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