It is finally starting to cool down here! By cool down, I mean pleasant at night and 75-80 during the day. According to everyone here, ‘the cold has arrived’ and people are wearing fleeces with snowflakes and full on winter jackets. Worse than Arizonians, I swear.

School is going alright. This tri I started to teach balancing equations, which is really hard to teach to such a big group. If they aren’t paying attention, which at any point in time, about half the class isn’t, they have no clue how to do it, and it’s hard to get around to 70 different kids and check if they’re getting it. So if anyone has any great ideas for teaching balancing eqns, send them my way! I also taught about moles this week. 6.02 x 10^23! So all in all, an exciting few weeks in my classroom! We’ve had a couple meetings for science fair which have mostly just been frustrating. I have a bunch of students and a couple teachers that say they’re interested or want to help, but then like 2 people show up to the meetings. I’m thinking about bribing them with baked goods. Which brings me to my next point…

We got on oven! Totally changed my life! Just knowing that I can make cake whenever I want is such a great feeling. So needless to say, there has been a lot of baking going on. Other than that, really not a whole lot happening. I’ve been reading some good books - Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight and The Sister were recent enjoyable reads. I have a lot of pictures posted on my facebook account because it’s easier to post them there, let me know if you want the link! Thanks for all the letters and packages, I love getting mail!