takin pictures is making memories.

Catching little pieces of time.Making them yours, making them mine. Great vacations and celebrations can fade away in a year. But when we're making memories, happy days are always here!
So for one of the things I wanted to do in while I was here in Mexico was to take a picture everyday. So far I have only missed 2 days. It's pretty cool. I am horrible at putting pictures up, but today I decided it was a good idea, and worth the time.

P.S. The chick in all these pictures is my roomie Liza. I cant remember if I have mentioned her before.


Day 1: Departure. Later Salt Lake!



Day 4: Cold, and rainy. Not what I was expecting. ha



Day 6: H T head teachering rocks.



Day: 8 I have all of my teachers color coded. Quiz me.

what's a pirates favorite letter?

W. Arrr. haha Anyways. I signed up for a geocashing account. Its so cool. Im going to do a treasure hunt everywhere I go. Love my life.

i killed him.

He's dead. Like for real. Liza and I came home from church and he had frozen in his bowl. I was so sad... We are going to buy another fishy as soon as the weather warms up. Liza flushed him down the toilet for me. I could'nt do it. It's not supposed to be 48 degrees in Mexico. Poor little guy. We tried to defrost him by putting him in the sun, but no bueno. :( rest well little guy.

b.u.b.b.l.e.s

Today I broke the rules. I bought a beta fish. The total came to 10 pesos. That is less than a dollar my friends! We even rock paper siccored him in the pet store, just to make sure we were making a good purchase. His name: Frez Caliente Seropositivo Sanchez. :)Roughly translated into hottie with positive HIV. (H was the first place we opened up to in our Spanish-English dictonary.) Liza and I are stocked. Now being proud owners of a Beta we responsibly googled advice on how to make sure our the newest family member will be well taken care of. First hit on google. B.U.B.B.L.E.S. An accronim that sums up the basic needs of an average depressed Mexican Beta fish with two insane American mommies. Here we go... Be there for him. Understand your dearest new friend. Beta-tude; being intune with your Beta. Best day ever day, making sure your Beta fish always has a great day! Love Love Love, need I say more. Everything & Anything your Beta needs and could ever want from you. Something extra each day, exceed his expectaions. Best spontaneous purchase I ever made.


Liza y Camille

identity matrixes

K so I know I didn’t even spell that right, but it's ok cause I didn't even know what that was until last night. So here I am in Mexico living it up as HT CLee. All that really entails so far is making schedules. Teaching schedules, cleaning schedules, SPE schedules, Weekend off schedules. Anyways... Late last night I was working on these "schedules" and little did I know what I was getting myself into. So the details aren’t that important, but please let me share them with you so you can better understand the amount of brain stress I was under. SO. For this particular schedule I was working on, I had 4 teachers. 15 weeks. 6 SPES. 3 teaching spots. This means that I have to successfully divvy out an equal amount of teaching weeks and weeks off; as well as make sure that every teacher teaches the same amount of SPEs, WHILE making sure that they aren’t over lapping during the week. I know this makes no sense to any of you besides maybe a random 3 ILP peps that will read this, but I was just trying to illustrate my point. Back to my story. To make thing simpler we decided to assign each teach a laffy taffy color and visually make a chart so we could figure everything out. This worked like a charm! The only thing is was that we were dealing with a stupid math equation! I knew that there was some simple formula that would fix all of my problems, but because I only made it to pre-calc. I had no idea what it was. ha Thanks goodness that I had Sara and Liza to help me figure things out. You might not appreciate this story. But I was doing smart people math last night, and applying it to real life situations. That is like every math teachers goal. Mr. Ruchti would be so proud of me.

i <3 the 50's

and this is why. how adorable!

h.o.me.

It's only been two weeks since I have been home from Ukraine, and its freaking weird?? It honestly feels like it was a dream sometimes. I miss it. Especially my host family. Utah rocks though! I have been to the cinema (lots cooler then the word movie theater) 4 times, and have eaten out 7 times. I feel like that's a pretty good typical "american experience". oooh! "I put my hands up they are playing my song, the butterflies fly away. Nodding my head like yeah. Moving my hips like yeah. You know Im gunna be ok. Its a party in the U.S.A!" Even though I am in love with america, and that milley cyrus song, I am SO excited to leave for Mexico. 1 day baby. Whoot Whoot! 50 degree weather. Here I come. I think its going to be raining for a like the first month? Good thing I love the rain...