fall is here, hear the yell, back to school, ring the bell

One month later I return from my whirlwind last month of summer vacation. Here's whats been going down the past few weeks.

Jess came and spent a week with me in the condo! We had so much fun being girls = shopping, being yogis, running, shopping, laughing, spa stuff. Pretty much perfect. Then her love finally returned from Spain and they took me with them to Idaho.

Once in Idaho I worked at my favorite tire store for a few hours then my perfect parents drove me to Boise to catch a flight. It may seem silly for me to fly out of Boise when I live 15 minutes from SLC, but it was all part of the plan. You see, Kersie was flying from Tacoma and her flight was stopping in Denver. The flight from SLC did not. The flight from Boise did stop in Denver. Thus we drove to Boise and Kers and I reunited in Denver! I attacked her as she came off the plane and she told me that she had just filled an airsick bag. Not ideal, but she got better as the trip went on. We made it to NYC and had the best vacation of our lives. I think going back to the mission is best done with a mission companion. We saw our loves, we hit our old haunts, we didn't feel pressured to play tourist, we felt at home. I can't even describe my feelings during that week. Especially when I stepped off the metronorth at marble hill and smelled the city. It's like something inside of me woke up again: my city self! :) I may sound dramatic, but it's true. Our last day in the city Kers and I rode the Staten Island Ferry out and back to Manhattan at 10 pm. On the way back in we listened to "Empire State of Mind" and cried. I just looked at those city lights and remembered all my childhood and grownup dreams and cried. It was so beautiful. Kersie and I started planning the next trip before we even left the island.

Back in Magna I started school. 2 weeks of training and planning and school starts tomorrow. I'm hoping for funny stories to follow. Perhaps even tomorrow after the first day. Our school is beautiful. It's brand new and has a bell tower. Seventh grade English, Cooking, and Yearbook are my list of classes. Here we come first year of full time teaching!

I can tell that we are gonna be friends