Surprise! We are still alive and well. Sorry about the lack of posting, we have both been staying busy and have not had the chance to post. Unfortunately, there is not really much to update you on. We have finished our first month of teaching, and are both enjoying it. My students are pretty well behaved, for the most part, and are fun kids. Ryan has a more challenging population to work with and is following a PE teacher who let the kids do whatever they wanted, so although he is enjoying teaching, some of his classes are a struggle. One of the benefits of being a teacher though is that OMSI has teacher open houses every so often, which means we get to see new exhibits for free! On Tuesday the 2nd we went to the Mindbender Mansion exhibit. It is made up of brain teasers and challenges that get you thinking and help you solve a puzzle so you can join the wall of fame. There was one really fun part which was a trivia/spelling challenge. There were a bunch of letters on the floor (like a giant keyboard...kind of) and on the screen a question would appear. Your task was to jump on the letters that spell out the answer, and you wanted to get as many correct answers as you could in 2 minutes. It was really fun to play and to watch. We bumped into a bunch of teachers from my school so we all did it together and had a good time.
In the non-work related world we haven't been up to too much. Hank hurt himself again, so we had to visit the vet...again and he's on meds...again. He somehow cut his toe right on the edge of the pad and the inside of his toe and wouldn't stop licking it so it couldn't heal. It did not get infected thankfully, but we have to put a sock on his leg and tape it on so that he will leave it alone and let it heal. He was on pain killers for a few days, and had about 2 weeks of antiobiotics. We only have two more days of the antibiotics, and we will probably have to keeping socking him for another week, give or take. If he would leave it alone we could take it off right now because it's almost healed, but when we have tried he starts licking it and irritates it again. It's like having a child! But we still LOVE our Hanky.
Ryan has joined a squash league and plays about two nights a week. He is doing well and winning most of his matches and having fun. On October 18th he is playing in a tournament up here as well. We are both on a co-ed intermediate soccer team. Right now we are playing on Sundays in the late evening, most of our games START at 9 pm. We aren't super happy about the time, but the season is almost over. The next session starts in November and we plan on playing in a different league that is located closer to us (right now we play near Garden Home if you know the area) and will give us a more reasonable game time. I am really enjoying soccer because it's a great cardio workout and thankfully I'm pretty good too!
I saw that Derek, Alicia, and Jadon got some fishies recently. I have been thinking about getting some as well because Hank enjoys looking at them when we go to PETCO. Ryan thinks I'm a crazy animal lady, but I think he's just thankful I'm not pondering getting a cat. We looked at some fishies this last weekend when we went to get our free tennis ball (Yay for being a P.A.L.S. member) and I saw some pretty ones. Ryan will be out of town this weekend to run a half marathon with his mom in San Jose, so we will see what kind of trouble I can get in while he's away. Fishies or not, we shall see!
