Sunday, May 23, 2010

New Job and Parents in Town!!

I've had a busy May so far! My parents were in town for 8 days, so I got to play tour guide for the week. We had a blast, and even had a quick mini-vacation in Portland, which was a blast. After that, I started my new job at the YMCA. I am a supervisor for Before- and After-School Care at an elementary school during the school year and then during the summer I am the Day Camp Director at an elementary school. I am SO SO excited!! I am currently still also working at Girl Scouts, because I want to finish out the year with my girls, thus my day goes something like this....
6:30-9:00 - Before-School Care at Elementary School
9:40-11:30 - Teach Girl Scouts at Middle School
11:30 - 2:30 - Work on curriculum for Girl Scouts, run errands, plan Summer Camp
2:30 - 6:00 - After-School Care at Elementary School
It's chaos, but the extra cash I'll get from having both jobs, plus Starbucks, will be GREAT!! I'm only working at Starbucks on the weekends for now. My last day at Girl Scouts is June 22, so I'll be able to add more Starbucks hours then. Girl Scouts is keeping me on board during the summer at just 5-10 hrs. per week to write curriculum for the Girl Scout program, which I am happy to do, since I've already invested so much into it.

This weekend I went out to Orcas Island in the San Juan Islands for a YMCA retreat with all the other Day Camp Directors. I had a great time....once I got there. I was going late to the retreat because I had to work at Starbucks yesterday morning. I drove an hour north to catch a ferry to the island...The woman at the ferry terminal directed me to the WRONG FERRY!! Me, having never been up there before, trusted her, obviously to a fault. We arrived in Friday Harbor, and I called my boss to come pick me up. Once we realized that I was on the wrong island, I had to wait for another ferry to take me to Orcas.... I ended up being a couple hours late, but still got to meet a lot of cool people and get some great information!! I'm PUMPED FOR SUMMER!!!

Needless to say, my hectic schedule leaves little time for blogging, but I'll do my best :)
Here are some pics from the last month....

Me teaching (my parents came to watch me teach!!!)


My 6th Graders


My 7th and 8th Graders


Marcy, Me, and Mom at Happy Hour


Argyle Winery - where I went wine tasting with my parents - YUMMMM


Dobbes Family Winery - our next winery stop - also YUMMMM


Us on our bikes!!


My parents and me at Two Tarts Bakery (one of our stops on a Bicycle Tour we did!!)


My mom and me trying on some headware at the Portland Farmer's Market


We went Geocaching on our way back to Seattle. This is my parents at the first Geocache ever - they were excited!!


My parents in front of a waterfall on our hike


Multnoma Falls in Oregon - 4th highest waterfall in the US


BILLY

2 comments:

Amber said...

I had to look up Geocaching :) Cool! Thanks for teaching me something!

Leann Wendell said...

Love these photos!