Venturing Out

You need to see it to know. You have to do it to learn it.

These sayings depict my learning styles. I need to be able to see what you are talking about and do whatever it is. Anyways, over the last few days, I haven't really had a chance to go anywhere without someone leading me. It's great to have people that either know what they are doing or are "take charge" sorts of people, but in the end, it isn't very helpful for those that are with you, especially if the learning styles are anything like my own. I need to be a part of the process not just follow in your footsteps.

Anyways, today was a day that I decided to venture out with some different people and experience different things. It started out as a rainy day where we went shopping at a store similar to a small Sam's Club. It was great to walk around and see what they had, but in all honesty, I didn't really need much. The store was pretty far away and we ended up getting stuck in traffic on the way home.

By the time we got home though, it had stopped raining, which was nice for unloading the bus (the other girls found the store a bit more to their liking than myself and had tons of HEAVY bags). I dropped my stuff off and headed to meet some girls to go to lunch and walk around the mall. We decided to snap a little photo while waiting for the crosswalk:

We ended up eating at a Tex-Mex restaurant which was OK. I think I had gotten my hopes up for mexican and came to realize it was southwestern (as we call it in the south). I probably will love it when I'm missing America though, so it's great to know where it is. 

Since the first day of school is quickly approaching, one of the girls and myself decided to work on our classrooms, which is convenient to be able to do on a Saturday. In fact, we can go into the school whenever we want, as long as we have our badges for the security guard to open the gate. 

Overall, it was a productive day and I got a chance to connect with a couple other new teachers, which is always nice!