College Town Bound!

Marshall and I are getting more and more thrilled about this fall--we are so excited. I think we've told most of our family by this point, but WE'RE MOVING TO ATHENS!!! Marshall is starting Law School at UGA, and I am blessed to have gotten a job teaching Spanish at Jackson County Comprehensive High School, around 30 mins from Athens! It's so clear now why we  weren't supposed to get any of the houses we put offers on this spring. :) Thank God!!

A few of my bucket-list items for the fall:
* Athens Half Marathon (training with Kat--we'll be living ~10 min. walk from her in family/grad. housing!)  
and training on the UGA IM Fields, which are also super close to where we'll live!
* Kayaking on the Oconee River
* Studying/Paper-grading dates at 2 Story Coffeehouse!
* Georgia Football!

Today I've been going through my flashdrive from my student-teaching in college, and I found some awesome stuff--things I've completely forgotten! It's full of ideas, best-practices, and lesson plans from all the teachers/students/professors/fellow-students I worked with during my senior year of college! But my biggest takeaway is a confidence-builder from one of the weekly "journal entries" we had to write: 

I am very tired at the end of this week, because in addition to being observed, applying to TFA, going to the job fair, and teaching/planning full time, I also planned my friend’s bachelorette weekend and had two lengthy conference calls (along with time spent preparing for those) for my part-time job.

SO glad I'll be able to only focus on teaching this fall!! Hopefully, that semester prepared me for anything/everything from an exhaustion standpoint. I can't wait for my teaching adventure that's only a few weeks away now!!