Grad School Project

In one of my classes I have to make several websites.  The first one is just a practice one.  Here is the link to the one that I am working on right now.  It is a work in progress for sure, but I still think that it looks pretty cool.

http://www.uensd.org/class_pages/edps6447/rshurdha/projectone/

job interview

And just to add another wonderful thing to the list I have a contract teacher job for a middle school science teacher on Monday!

Home

Endrit and I have been looking for a place to buy for a few months now.  It has been disheartening at times because of the low budget that we have to be able to buy a home.  I have been periodically looking at the listings in the area that we were willing to look in and there was just nothing that we really liked and were willing to place an offer on.  That all changed 2 days ago.

I found a cute duplex in our price range in our location range too.  That is unheard of.  We went and looked at the property that day between me teaching and my class.  We placed an offer on it that night after my class.  We allowed the sellers to accept or reject our offer by 5 pm last night.  Well, we heard just after noon that they had a counter offer that we would accept.  

So, last night we accepted the offer and we are under contract.  We should close by June 20th.  It has been interesting to go from not many things to being in the middle of financing a house  and graduate school.  

It is a really cute duplex.  It is green!!  (as in the color green)  We seem to like green places to live as we haven't lived in a place that wasn't green since we have been married.  

That is life as it stands right now.  We are getting all of our inspections done this week on the house.  We are finally entering the real "adult" world.  

Pictures as Promised

It is early in the day.  The sun hasn't broken the horizon yet.  Endrit wanted to drive again...I let him.  Here is Trinity!

Trinity Ki

Endrit's dad finally got his drivers licence so it was time for them to get a car.  We were going to go to Ogden to get them a Corolla when Endrit finds a Prius that we could use.  So, we sold Stella (our Corolla) to his parents and got the Prius.  Her name is Trinity.  It is too late to take pictures so those will come tomorrow.  It is a 2006. It is a really great car.  I love driving it!!

Summer

This summer will definitely be busy!  I start graduate school on the 17th; aka next Monday.  I got my programming book for one of my classes and it will be interesting.  I also have the potential to be a summer school teacher this summer.  I would teach 2 different kinds of classes.  One would be a class that the students would have to pass in order to get credit.  The other class would be an enrichment computer class.  It isn't the perfect job, but it will pay for my graduate school.  So, starting next week I will be super busy!!  I am busy now, but I will invite more things to do.

Outstanding

I got an email from my department today telling me that I needed to go into the department and pick up my luncheon tickets.  While I was there I was stopped by my last Geology professor and he asked me how everything was going.  I told him about my job at the middle school and he was really excited for me.  I also found out which award I received from the department; even though I had a suspicion that I received the award that I got.

I got, for the second year in a row, the outstanding earth science teaching major award.  This came with a gift card because it was for 2 consecutive years!!  Anyone that knows me knows that I like to be the best at academics.  I don't care about sports or health, but academically, I try to blow people out of the water.  This award means a lot to me.  It means that I am doing a good job as a teacher and as a student.  It means that my department appreciates me.  I feel bad that I didn't go to the awards banquet, but I couldn't miss work in order to do that.  I don't want to miss out on that much work with my students.  It makes me really happy.

It is my final capping achievement as an undergraduate.  I am not sure if they do awards in my Masters program.  It has just been a really good day and I thought that it was time for a good update.