It's been a busy week back. I've had several papers due this week so I've been a busy bee. Class on Wednesday was really exciting. It's a class called "Teaching Environmental Education with Technology". Basically we play with fun toys you should use when teaching like hand held microscopes that take digital pictures and video straight to your computer. This week we played with GPS devices and did a scavenger hunt around campus. We had to take goofy pictures at each of our locations. My groups won. My teacher said I was so creative I should go into environmental ed.... duh.
After that we had a guest speaker from the local alternative school. He talked about using a website about roadkill to teach math and science skills. After he finished talking I went to discuss an idea with him. When I was in Delaware for the Midatlantic Marine Educator's Association conference back in October there was a woman from another aquarium talking about a project she had started. She worked with the local juvenile delinquent center on the 7 ocean literacy principles (which I am also taking a class about). She taught them 8 times and any of the students who passed were allowed to become junior docents at their aquarium when they got out of the center. This way they would have a healthier place to spend their time. I've wanted to start something like that with our local aquarium and so I brought it up to this teacher. He said he would love to do a program like that and even if I don't have a place to teach, he'd still like me to come teach their class sometime anyway. So here's another big plan of mine. Maybe I'll change my project plan for next semester. We'll see.
After class I went down to the beach bars with my girlfriends for St. Patty's Day. We played a bunch of Flogging Molly and Dropkick Murphys on the jukebox but then people went back to slow sad music. It was very very chill that night. Thursday I went out for my friend's birthday and had a great time.
Friday I went apartment shopping before I went to work at Surfhouse. Then my friend came into town. She's been living in Brazil for the last two years so we went out to dinner and to Blue Post which is a very chill bar. They wouldn't let us bring in our ice cream though. I'm surprised none of us got sick. We had seafood with margaritas followed by ice cream and topped off with vodka cranberry. Yuck.
Saturday I got up and went to a Project Aquatic Wild workshop for part of my North Carolina Environmental Education Certification. It was a nice workshop other than I knew more about the animals than the instructor. I kept my mouth shut and didn't correct him when he gave wrong information. Who says I can't learn to keep my mouth shut? ;-) I went straight from school to see my friends again. We spent the rest of the afternoon laying out and drinking margaritas. It was great.
Today was spent at Surf House. It's been my third day back. Friday they asked me if I want to be the front of house manager for the summer. Of course! As long as I can work my schedule around the aquarium. I should hear from them this week as to whether or not they're hiring me for the summer. Then in April they should be having a full time job opening. We'll see. I finally told my landlady I'm moving next month. She took it extremely well. Much better than I expected. So now I can start working on that. I'm moving to Monkey Junction which is about halfway between school and work. I'll only be on campus one day a week next semester so I don't need to be so close and I don't want to drive an hour each way to work this summer. So it's a happy medium.
So now I'm going to have dinner with my girls again before Jess heads back to Brazil. Mom and dad will be here Friday for a week and I can't wait. It's been another wonderful week in paradise. A girl in my class on Weds told me I live a charmed life. I do and I'm so thankful for it.
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