Shrinky Dinks!

I had never used Shrinky Dinks before, but I was scouring the aisles at the craft store trying to find something I could use to make tags with. I finally found these Shrinky Dink papers that you can put through your computer printer! Genius! Here is what the paper package looks like:

   

 I just printed my logo on the sheets, cut them out, punched a hole in them and baked them until they were flat. Here is what the turned out like!

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Safari Book

I got this book as a gift for my birthday. I absolutely love it! As you turn the pages the images appear to be moving!

Big Kenyan Spider

I remember this spider from the Kenya coast. Biggest spider I've ever seen! The Golden Orb Web Spider.

My Kenyan Love

Movies That Moved Me

I've been wanting to write about my favorite movies for awhile now. These are movies that I might not watch over and over, but after seeing them, they left a lasting impression on me.

 

SUNSHINE

When I spent a semester in Hungary, I took a Hungarian film class. This was one of the movies we watched. I'll never forget the execution scene. It's a movie following three generations of a Jewish Hungarian family in the first half of the 1900's. It's a long movie, but very emotionally grabbing.


 

HOTEL RWANDA

After watching this movie I promised myself I would go into the Peace Corps or UNICEF. The movie's main character played by Don Cheadle has an amazing story and his selflessness inspired me.

 

ZEITGEIST

Most people that see this movie, afterwards they say it blew their mind. Life altering, mind blowing influential stuff.

BLOOD DIAMOND

This movie opened my eyes to what third world people go through to get the first world their fancies. Now I think more about what I'm looking at before I buy it. I made sure my engagement ring was conflict free, too. I support fair trade whenever possible.

Substitute Teaching

(image credit: funnywallphotos.com) Today is my first day substitute teaching. It is for a math teacher at the high school I went to. Some things have changed...when I was here no one had laptops in the classroom. Now everyone has them and teachers have to use them for attendance! The security is tighter as well. All substitutes have to wear a lanyard and card. Students need hall passes, even though the kids that left my class to 'go get breakfast' didn't have a pass because our classroom didn't have one. When I was in school, if you didn't have class, you could just leave the campus. Now you are forced to be in a study hall. I was so nervous this morning to be in charge of kids that I almost cried. I think I worked myself up to much, worrying about if the kids were gonna be super crazy or if I'd get embarrassed. After I got over the initial shock ....red face and sweats...it was ok. It's true that they will listen to you. I forgot that at that age most of us really respect authority figures. Then you get into the real world and jerks will be jerks...they don't care. So in a way it is easier being a substitute than a stranger in the real world. At least you have some authority when your in the classroom.