Spring is in the air

With the weather getting nicer and the month of March beginning to wind up, spring is beginning to bloom. I don't know about other colleges, but here on the BYU-I campus, there's one main thing that pops into my mind once spring is in the air: let the engagements/relationships begin. I dont' know if I've just been oblivious or more accepting of relationships this semester, but it has been seeming like more people I know are in relationships or getting engaged. I have one previous FHE brother who I thought I overheard talking about how he has a girlfriend, I have a current FHE brother who I thought had broken up with his girlfriend but today I saw him holding hands with a girl (we said hi to each other; we've become good friends), and I don't even want to think about how many girls in my ELED classes are engaged or married. One of my clogging/dance friends is in a relationship right now too.

I'm not going to lie, this whole lack of dating thing is getting old. I know the solution to getting asked out is being more social, but I have been really social this semester! Up until the last couple weeks when I was doing stuff with family and then giving myself a weekend of downtime, I have done something with friends every single weekend. I have a few guy friends, but I don't think I've actually been on any dates this semester. I suppose it might be a good thing right now because I have been trying to do my best with my classes, so that has kept me really busy. Maybe this semester is meant for me to make more guy friends or make myself noticed so that during the summer semester, I might get asked out? I dunno. That's just my theory.

This seems to happen every year to me, actually. Every year around March or April or whenever the snow starts to melt and couples seem to have multiplied, the idea of a relationship and seeing couples on campus makes me irritated. Then again, maybe its the closing of the semester and the stress getting to me. I've been more stressed lately with deadlines, tests, and assignments due, so that may also be a contributor. In any case, maybe I'll get lucky sometime soon and get asked out by a great guy that I get along with really well.

I had a real firefighter help me with my Social Studies lesson yesterday!

Yesterday was soo great! My Social Studies group started our unit presentation about character values. We were teaching three values to our class: respect, honesty, and courage. We started out the class by having two of our teachers dressed up like leprechauns and splitting up the class into two parts. Each teacher took a group to a different value so they could learn more about it.

One girl was dressed up as Abraham Lincoln, another was Mother Teresa, and I was going to be dressed up as a firefighter. I went to borrow a firefighter's uniform at the fire station yesterday, but they were cautious about letting 'just anyone' take one of them, considering they cost a lot of money (about $1,000, I think). So the chief volunteered one of his firefighters to come and speak to my 'kindergardeners' (they didn't know we were just pretending to be in kindergarden). So instead of dressing up like a firefighter, I had a real firefighter be my guest speaker for my students.

It was so cool! I gave him a heads-up about fifteen minutes before class started about what he'd be doing and he was just perfect. He asked the students all the right questions and gave all the right information (about what we were covering with having courage) and he was just great. I couldn't thank him enough. He was so good. He brought his helmet and firefighter suit to talk about and show us and I even had a nifty book for the students (and myself) to have him refer to when talking about it. He was great with both groups (the class was split in half, so they took turns visiting each 'guest'). I don't think my lesson could have gone any better and I am so grateful to Lee (the firefighter) for taking about 40 or so minutes out of his day to teach us about firefighting and all the things they have to do. I think I'm going to bring a card for all of the students, or at least the teachers in our group to sign to thank the fire department for being so willing to come talk to our class. They do so much for our community and I think its only fair that we give them some kind of thank you card to let them know how much we appreciate them. I've been smiling about this since yesterday. :D It was soooo great!!!