BYU SPORTS

Well for those of you who do not know, BYU Rugby beat Cal in the finals to be champions for 2009. It has been a long time coming and the team definitely deserved it this year more than ever. They had a great season with great wins and tonnes of support. It was definitely their year and they pulled it off. As Wayne helps coaching the whole stake was backing them up and keeping up on the latest news. As it was our stake conference weekend the news spread fast through the stake and everyone was ecstatic. Congrats cougars, proud to be a supporter of the BYU rugby team.




I usually like to follow BYU Sports that include people that I know. For that reason I have only followed the rugby. But this semester I had a student in my class on the track team. He was from Estonia and competed in the decathlon. At the beginning of the semester he showed me his schedule where he would miss a bunch of classes due to his track meets and I didn't think he could cope with homework and keeping up with in class assignments. Well he proved my wrong! He wrote great papers, kept up with assignments, and excelled in his track events. Meelis claimed the decathlon title at his last track meet and it was his personal best performance. This performance should be good enough to qualify him for the NCAA championships. It was great to follow Meelis and his success. He is a great student, awesome athlete and has an amazing future ahead of him. Congrats Meelis!


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Pony Express - 3rd Grade Elementary

So I help out at my friend's (Paul) classroom at Pony Express Elementary school 3rd grade class twice a week. They had been such great students and had earned a Luau party for their class and I was so excited to attend. They are a great bunch of kids and I love them. They call me Miss Nancy and they have so many great stories to tell me e.g., "Miss Nancy my sister drank from a puddle", "Miss Nancy I think I'm adopted", "Miss Nancy I think you're pretty" ...... Their little comments are never ending and so interesting I love it. Well here is a picture of the little munchkins!!



It is customary on your birthday to bring a treat to class and I decided to bring them helium balloons. When they came into class and saw the balloons they all began freakin out with excitement. I suddenly had this visual of 30 8 yr olds sucking on helium and talking like Mickey Mouse. i was then unsure of my choice of surprise. Well It all turned out great. Only 2 kids sucked the helium and they kind of sounded like Micky Mouse before sucking the helium and the rest of them just loved them. I taught them a cute little hula (Pearly Shells), we had pineapple punch with little umbrellas, brownies and cupcakes, and then did the limbo and gave out the balloons. it was such a great afternoon and man I don't know how Elementary school teachers do it. I have a lot of respect and admiration for those in this profession. I'd take my University students with the most pathetic excuses for not doing their homework any day.

Another Brithday ...

So I had a birthday in April and it was great! I spent most of the day grading final exams for my students but it was actually very restful and relaxing (A here, B there, fail this kid, pass this kid, kinda like a lucky dip!). That night I went to Tepenyaki (where they cook the food right in front of you) with my friend Paul and it was yummy.





I'm trying to eat healthier (I know it doesn't look like it from the previous pictures) but I'm loving making protein shakes, high protein dishes and low carbs. So to help me with this for my birthday I got some cool little cooking gadgets - the Magic Bullet Deluxe from Paul, and the Delonghi cooking grill from my friends Rodd and Tiff. I also woke up the next morning with all these hearts all over my door from my visiting teachers it was awesome.



Once you hit a certain age birthdays are a little overrated, however, I had a great day and was spoiled by great friends. I also got tonnes of birthday wishes from a lot of people on Facebook. Thanks everyone for making my birthday happy!!!