Saturday, April 11, 2009

Maybe we were made for each other!

okay here is my much needed updated blog. I will attempt to update but i can't promise that the events will be in order that they happened. I am sure the more i write on this post more and
more thoughts will come into my head...so here i go.
1. I went to Science Camp. YES!!!! It was probably one of the most memorable experiences i have had. I was over 8 GIRLS! HIGH DRAMA girls! Lets just say there was lots of tears, laughing, yelling, and lots and lots of chatting :)


2. My Internship ended... sad. On Thursday they threw me a suprised good-bye party! It was so precious. They made me this cute book where they individually wrote me good-bye letters. They also made me a puzzle. It was so sweet! I am going to miss those little kids so much! I had so much fun doing that internship and i will never ever forget the experience i had.

3. i injured my foot. For Jordan's birthday we suprised him and took him to Sky High (trampoline place). I ofcourse the last 30 seconds twisted my foot. Here are some pictures of what it looks like now. It looks so much better now, but it is so stinkin gross.


4. We have celebrated 4 birthdays within this past month, including mine (a little early) Happy Birthday to the Clark home! 5. okay i think i fell in love. I went to the Jack's Mannequin and Matt Nathanson concert. Matt stinkin stole my heart and i wil forever be in love with his voice! Best concert of my life :)

Matt Nathanson :)

Andrew McMahon playing the piano. love

6. My little lovebug nephew came and visited!

7. SHARK'S GAME!!! A group of us went to the game! Always a fan of the Shark's and the game brought back so many fun memories i had when i was younger going to the games with kim!


8. PILLOW FIGHT on Valentines day!!!! Crazy to see massive amounts of people swinging pillows at each other!


9. And soon i will be heading back to Idaho and living with the girl in the middle (so excited!) but will be missing my dear sweet Melissa. SHE IS A COLLEGE GRADUATE!!! CONGRATULATIONS!



Saturday, February 14, 2009

ill be your best friend and youll be my valentine!

Happy Valentines Day! So nothing beats waking up and finding a bouquet of flowers from your dad! Every year my dad makes sure that i get some type of flower for this cute holiday!
OKAY! And yesterday was my 6th graders Valentines Party! I made homemade valentines. I couldn't get a clear picture but this is what i gave them. Its a candy bar wrapper and on the front says there name and wishing you a happy valentines day love miss clark! On the back was a quote by Oscar Wilde "To love oneself is the beginning of a life long romance"! The party was a blast and they all got hyper off of candy!
HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

love.love.love

So I am in my 5th week of the internship...seriously time is flying by. Everyday i get a little bit more attached the to little 6th graders. Its going to be so rough leaving them in a couple months. This past Friday they had a talent show fundraiser to help raise money for science camp. HUGE success and they all did SO well! They were so nervous but did a great job! Seriously so cute!!! We raised over $1,000! Can we say HUGE sucess!!!! WHICH speaking of Science Camp, i am heading off to be a camp counselor in 3 weeks! Should be interesting but i am stinkin excited!!!!

So here is a little picture update...my brothers and I got a little bored yesterday and took a million pictures. These were sadly the best! Enjoy!

The CLARK Curse-Chubby Cheeks!






Saturday, January 24, 2009

sometimes a little wise?

Okay so as i sat down to eat an avocado for dinner (which lately seems to be a regular occurance) i decided to check my email and lo and behold i got an email from one of my dear sweet students. Now just to back up a little bit, this past week i might say i was a little stressed. Questions flying through my head about if teaching is something i really want to do or do i prefer the business world. I know i love kids but would i be better at doing something one on one rather than trying to teach a classroom. So of course all of these thoughts are somewhat pointless to have at the moment because i really have a while until i need to decide what i am going to do. plus i really felt like i was sucking (yes sucking-who knows if that is actually a word) at teaching. So i was probably throwing myself an unnecessary pity party. OKay so back to the reality....i checked my email and one of my sweet students had been emailing me and wrote:

My parents r getting redy 4 da Judo tournament, fixing up da house, and just relaxing!! Ya, I think the weekend does zoom by 2 fast 2.
How did u no bout the hole "dating" thing. I heard wen u were talking bout it and thought it was kindda cool that u new bout that kindda stuff. It's also cool that u teach kidds wen ur almost a kid ur self, u understand the way we think, sum times.
First off i love here spelling-and second the topic of conversation amongst these group of girls is always boys-we always talk about dating. And i feel like i am a broken record when i continually tell them boys should not be there main worry at that age. But apparently this little student thinks i know exactly what i am talking about. These girls have such low self esteem for being so young. If there was one thing i could leave with them this semester it would be just to love yourself the way you are regardless of what others think. So thank you my little student for making me feel like someone actually listens :)

Dare I say cutest little boy ever?

Okay so its been a while, but last weekend I went down to Southern California and saw the cutest boy ever-Christian! Here are just a few of my favorite shots!
This is Christian watching Enchanted. I couldn't get him to look at the camera!
After his first haircut!






Thursday, January 8, 2009

Miss Brittany Barbie!

So i am exhausted but i thought i would get in some blogging time before i hit the magical bed! okay so this week i started my internship and so far...its been good! Although i am extremely grateful that the week is almost over! Its a little overwhelming and humbling to know that 6th graders might possibly be smarter than me. Its very true. I feel like i am going to school all over again-learning about verbs, nouns as well as analyzing stories and spelling. Oh boy definetly not my favorite but i am learning lots and i love it!
Just a quick story before bed! Today, Miss Gouveia (my mentor!!! she is like YODA) anyways today she had this brillant idea to do some role play. I ofcourse became Brittany Barbie (ex cheerleader from CA, 4 girls, 26 years old, just got my masters in dairy sciences and am now a professional egg tosser). I ofcourse came out onto the stage bouncy, perky and i am sure BRIGHT RED! It was so much fun and i loved every minute of it. Now the hard part...is teaching something i really want to do or do i just love working with kids more one on one...? If anyone would care to make that decision for me it would be much appreciated!

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Going to look FINE in 2009!!!

So I have been thinking of a new moto for this upcoming year...and well I couldn't find too many things that rhymed with 2009. So Looking Fine in 2009 is the best i can do! To go along with that i have set some new goals for this year. Some that I have to admit make me a little bit nervous. OKAY so first i will back up a little bit. In November i had mentioned to my mom that I was thinking about picking up running, as a hobby. Don't even ask me what i was thinking. So then magically for Christmas, Santa brings me 3 (not 1 but 3) marathon training books and a new pair of running shoes. So Christmas morning i feel a little bit motivated, pull on those shoes and start running. I started the running schedule this past week, fully motivated. All I can say is by the end of the week i wanted to shoot my legs and the three running books. But i am determined to get into the habit of doing this. BOO

Okay so I guess i should mention Christmas...it came and then left quickly. Sadly. But i love having all my family together! Christian is just turning into a little boy!


And then there was New Years-Katie came into town and I thought it would be just brillant to take her to the San Francisco. What started out to be fun turned into a little adventure! We watched the firewords at Pier 1! But for some reason it must not have crossed my mind that Bart (public transportation) would be packed. Jordan (my extremly tall brother) pulled us through the crowds. I have never been so packed with a group of people ever. So once we finally got down into the station. We were standing patiently waiting for the train when all of a sudden we hear a group of cops yelling at us to get down. They had tackled a man-took a gun from him and was holding him to the ground. Happy New Years to us!!!
! It was quite the adventure!!!