Growing Pains and Hunger Games

I had a realization the other day as I saw a number of high school-ers waiting for their bus…I am going to miss this entire school year.  I have been in the classroom teaching in some capacity since my student teaching, which was September of 2009.  While it is nice not to have the pressure of subbing and not knowing where I am going everyday or the task of lesson planning- I know I am going to miss it dearly.  Pray that even as I am not teaching in the schools I would still be exercising my teaching abilities in some capacity to keep refining and improving them.

Josh and I did a first on Friday night.  We went to the theater together but did not see the same movie.  We had heard about the cheap theater that shows “old” movies- $3.50 a ticket, any time, any day.  Josh had wanted to see the latest Spider Man and I had wanted to see The Hunger Games- neither of us really wanting to see the others.  They were showing 20 minutes a part so it worked out perfectly.  It was also the first time I had ever seen a movie in the theaters by myself.  At first I thought I was going to be the only one in there- but then just as the movie was starting 6 other people joined all over the age of 65.  It was kind of nice to see it by myself and only have a few other viewers many rows away because then I could say comments out loud like, “Oh! Oh!” or “Come on” or “No, run, ah!” and more of the like.  I enjoyed the movie even though there were many times I was close to tears and other times I was slightly disturbed.  Seeing the movie makes me very excited to read the books- now I just need to somehow get my hands on them.  I love children’s storylines that are not magical but fantastical.  The things happening aren’t because of magic, but not quite natural either…its just fantastic!

After the movie we grabbed some Wendy’s (which we have not had since we moved here- kind of a big deal because its our favorite and only fast food) and brought it over to a park on Lake Washington.  We enjoyed our meal outside by the water each discussing the movie we saw- it was a lovely evening together.