Kelly's Pictures and Other Stuff: October 2008

Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Faith in Action

This past weekend was Faith in Action Weekend at His House. We went out in groups and did community service projects around Mt. Pleasant. I went and raked leaves at a camp about 30 minutes outside Mt. Pleasant with about 30 other people. It was a blast!!!!

Building some muscles while raking all the leaves

We made some huge piles!!

Here is a video of Chris diving into the leaves

Hot chocolate break

Using our teamwork skills to put the leaves into a trailer to dump into the woods

Smashing down the leaves so more can fit in the trailer

We got a hotdog and chips lunch after all of our hard work

This picture is for you dad...its a german shepherd!

After raking, Ashley, Aliscia, and I went and saw High School Musical 3 again!! (It was Ashley's first time though) Then a huge group of His Housers met up for dinner at Fazolis. There was about 25 of us there!

This is only one part of our huge group...we had some good times.

It was a busy and fun Saturday!!!!

Friday, October 24, 2008

High School Musical 3

October 24, 2008...High School Musical 3 premiere!!!!! Aliscia and I decided to make shirts and go all out for the HSM3 midnight show. I even bought HSM3 cereal!

Showing off our Wildcat spirit!

This is the front of our shirts...

...and this is the back of our shirts...

The cereal is pretty tasty too. It tastes like Captain Crunch

At the theater posing with the cardboard cutouts of the characters

12:01 AM...High School Musical 3!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really liked the movie! It was cute. Of course, it definitely had some cheesy moments, but that was kind of to be expected. The songs are amazing in the third movie and most of the dancing is pretty cool too. The only problem that I had with the movie was how short some of the girl's dresses were and when they were dancing, it showed a little more than what a G movie should be showing. I think they did a great job of summing everything up and ending the whole HSM craze. If you liked the first 2 movies, I would recommend the 3rd one! :) I am even going to see it again on Saturday!!!!!

Sunday, October 19, 2008

CMU vs. WMU

And the winner is...CMU!!!! The big rival football game was on Saturday against Western and we beat them 38-28. What's even cooler about that, is that we beat them with our back up quarterback! This game was a bit cooler outside than the rest, but still a gorgeous day!

This time we spelled "Fire up (up arrow) Chips"

The stands were packed!!!!!!!

Matt, Lauren, Lauren's mom, Lauren's aunt, and Matt's roomies were all just a few rows behind me

At half time, the band played the song "Thriller"...and they totally did the dance to it! It was awesome!!!

We started a new tradition for our rivalry... whoever is the winner of the game gets a trophy until the next year. Then the trophy is up for grabs again.

Part of the Chip Crew after the game...once again, I was the only girl this time.

Like I said, the stands were packed! We broke a record attendance for Kelly/Shorts Stadium of 30,302 people!! Way to go CMU!!!

P.S. I know there have been a lot of football pics lately, but don't worry, the next blog won't be football...I promise!!

Friday, October 17, 2008

Chip Crew photo story!!!!

Today the Chip Crew photo story was in The Morning Sun newspaper!!! It was 2 full pages in color!! It turned out really awesome...Lisa did a great job with it. There is also a multimedia slideshow thing on the website that has even more pictures, and it has a voiceover of an interview that I did with her! Here is the link if you want to check it out:
http://www.themorningsun.com/articles/2008/10/17/news/doc48f7be04c0b80813751777.txt

Monday, October 13, 2008

CMU Homecoming

Saturday was CMU's homecoming football game. The weather was gorgeous, sunny, and warm, which made for a great day to be at a football game! We played Temple and beat them 24-14!! We got 3 or 4 interceptions during the game too, so it was really exciting. :)

Ashley was up at CMU for the day so she stopped by to say hi

This is my friend Grant's little cousin...I painted the flying C on his chest. He was sooooo cute!!

Chip Crew for that game, minus the G...he left right after the game ended. I was the only girl this time.

I was in the Mt. Pleasant newspaper on Sunday...front page, in color!!!

Here's a closer view of the picture.

On Friday there is going to be a whole article about Chip Crew, so check back on Friday to see pics of that article in the paper :)

Friday, October 10, 2008

Student Teaching Placement

This morning I woke up at 5:30 AM so I could drive all the way down to Stockbridge (1 hour 45 min away) to meet the principal, kindergarten teacher, and first grade teacher of Smith Elementary School to see if they actually wanted me student teaching at their school or not.

The teachers and principal were all very nice and friendly!! The school is fairly new so it is really nice and clean inside. The kids were adorable and pretty well behaved also. I LOVED everything about the school!

Later this afternoon, my coordinator called me and told me that the principal and teachers loved me and they definitely want me student teaching at their school! I am super stoked! So...here is where I am student teaching:

-Smith Elementary School in Stockbridge, MI
-It is a K-2 grade building only, which is really cool...the 3-5 grade building is next door
-I will be doing 8 weeks in a 1st grade classroom and 8 weeks in a kindergarten classroom, which is exactly what I wanted!!!
-Here is the school's website if you want to check it out:
http://scs.k12.mi.us/education/school/school.php?sectionid=7

Sunday, October 5, 2008

Emily's 21st Birthday

Wednesday was my roommate Emily's 21st birthday. Since it was the middle of the week, we were all busy so we couldn't really do anything too exciting to celebrate. However, we did sing to her and have ice cream late that night!