Here is another update on the "England situation". Because basically I do whatever Meagan tells me to do.

After two* years of suspense, I finally got to encounter that magical** tourist wonderland known as to the world as Ipswich. We learned many insightful and historical facts. For example, Ipswich is home to the very hill immortalized in the ( Read more... )

Little: Well now you can 'cause you can go "YAY ENGLAND. GOOD DAYS HAPPEN HERE."
Little: In fact, that should be their tourism slogan

What a beautiful day! We started by having breakfast at The Bus Cafe. It is called that because it is a cafe...inside a bus. Then we went on a field trip to a lovely little beach in a town called Lowestoft, and ( Read more... )

Please add this to your list of top ten things not to say when your best friend picks you up from the airport: Don't hug me. I have vomit in hair.

Because good things just don't happen to me.

Today was my second day of work. I am now going to England for two weeks. This seems to me like an entirely rational work-to-vacation ratio.

Today was "Say Hello Day" which means the kids and their parents come in, take a look at the school, talk to the teacher, pay bills, wreak havoc and utter chaos, and depart. My partner teacher's name is Dori. ( Read more... )

on getting a job reference
Me: I can leave the room if my being here is making you uncomfortable....
Vanessa: Oh not at all. How do you spell "sucks"?

Ha.

It was Tuesday so when I got home from camp around 2ish, I made some candy out of the lemon sorrel in my frontyard and then taught myself how to build a fire.

Every single one of my camp pictures, from the past 4 years, just got completely deleted and erased.

Did I ever tell you about the time Peter's dog peed on Jessie?

When I get a text message my phone used to play my voice saying, "I got a message! I got a message! Yaaaaaaay ( Read more... )

They've been dreading this moment all summer long....
                                              ....the night before life goes on.

AGC Camper: Do you have a twin?
Me: No...
AGC: Cause there was this girl here last year that looked just like you.

This week I had the extreme privilege to be assigned to Mission Camp. I have gone on Mission Camp every year that I have worked at Highroad, and generally do not look forward to it. Yet somehow I always end up going, and always end up ( Read more... )