30 reasons I love teaching high school

1. 2:10 pm
2. High school football
3. wild and crazy hallways
4. "I love you Miss Stokes"
5. Friday night basketball games
6. "Miss Stokes, I am saving a dance for you"
7. Suck ups
8. UBSCT testing days= 55 minute class periods
9. 2 weeks vacation for Christmas
   
10. at least one day off per month
11. "You sound like a smurf"
12. chaperoning high school dances
13. "You look beautiful"
14. payday
15. Huge classes
16. The idea that we will very soon be getting technology : )
17. SBOs
18. "Miss Stokes, can I please have your number. I promise I will only use it in an emergency!"
19. "This is my favorite class"
20. "How many houses are there in Idaho? Two?"
21. "Do you eat potatoes every day?"
    
22. Late start days
23. Renaissance Meetings
24. Building Committee Meetings
25. "Miss Stokes, you look like crap"
26. Hall passes
27. Tardy tickets
28. Hall sweeps
29. "What can I do to get my grade up? I know I never come but I really need to pass by tomorrow?"
30. June, July and August!!!

I love my job. All of the quoted ones really have been said. Some, you are not quite sure how to respond and others you just smile and laugh. I never thought that being a teacher would be the hardest but the best thing I have ever done. It is so rewarding and in the end, when you see them on Graduation day, accepting that diploma, you know that you had some sort of influence in the life of a young person!

Five Girls + One House = The Time of Our Lives!!!

What great times you can have in a house of five girls!!! Biggest Loser Nights, Cycling at Sugarhouse, late night chats, Monday night dinner with the boys, girl talk, Thursday Institute, Five Guys (the burger place and we wish there were Five Guys)....the list is endless.

Wrestling Matches, tacking Allyson while she is on the phone, Allyson getting a "sneak peek"

Sushi + Carrie = a bad mix. I tried sushi several years ago in college and couldn't handle it. Happy Chinese New Year and I tried it again. Yup- can't handle it at all. I was very proud of myself for trying it but I think I will stick with the egg rolls and fortune cookies : )

Kaylin trying to teach me how to dance. Yes, this is going to be a lifetime process. Dance parties are a common thing and random acts of dancing happen often. One of these days I will learn or...I might not. But, at least there will be a lot of laughs along the way