Testing, testing, one, two, three

This morning I took a test which will determine whether or not I can receive a teaching license in the state of NV. It was supposed to be a test that college students in NV take to get in to their respective education programs, and I took a similar, harder test in UT while I was still in school.

The test is comprised of three parts; reading, writing and mathematics. Although I'm no dummy when it comes to math, I haven't had a real (calculus) math class (does an athletics statistics class really count as math?) in 11 years or so. I studied a bit in anticipation of the challenge the math portion of this test may have presented me.

As chance would have it, I ended up scoring better on the math portion of the test than I did on the reading portion (the written portion will take some time to get graded). Granted, the reading portion was the first part of the test and it was early for my brain to be functioning properly, but still.

I have a degree in English. I read books ALL of the time. Should I be thinking of getting a math endorsement? It is much easier to grade because there is only ONE right answer...

Funny thing...

Since the weather was so nice today, for our afternoon session of PE, we decided to create our own frisbee golf course. My classes have recently been interested in playing frisbee, and we even made up our own version of ultimate frisbee, so I was excited to see how accurate our aim is becoming.

We all took turns deciding what our target was, and what the par was for each hole-it was a lot of fun. Once, one of the students said they wanted the target to be the out house that was set up in the park. I had just seen someone go in to the out house, so suggested that we have another target.

Later, on another student's turn, the out house was once again suggested. We decided to go for it because we were positive it was no longer occupied. It was a par 3 hole, and we were pretty far away, but the out house was a straight shot from the tee. One student had a great first throw that almost went all the way to the out house. The rest of us slowly made our way up to him. When it was his turn to throw again, he let it fly and it hit the out house with a very loud thud, which was soon after accompanied by a very loud scream and a small out house tremor. Oops! I was almost rolling on the ground with laughter-we didn't finish that hole.

January? Are you sure?

Where did winter go?

Northern Nevada has been showing a warming trend over the past two weeks, almost to the point that it's been warm. I'm a huge fan of winter weather, bundling up, and playing in the snow-but nature has been forcing the flowers in my yard to start poking through the ground. It was rather nice to do some yardwork yesterday, and very pleasant to get the motorcycle warm on a little ride around town.

There will most likely be more of winter to come before true Spring arrives, but until then, I'm going to enjoy the sunshine as much as possible.