I'm pretty sure my sister and I are the most disappointing mormon daughters ever. Mid-late 20's and no dating or marriage prospects. Sorry mom!

My sister recently (as in 3 days ago) started teaching high school in a small town in Nevada. As she just turned 28 and moved to this small town, my sweet mother is pretty concerned about her marriage prospects. As part of my mother allowing her to move to Ely (Yes, she actually pretends like she can still control our lives. It's pretty adorable) she demanded my sister sign up for an eHarmony dating profile.  So during Christmas break we pulled the trigger. Turns out I have some experience filling out eHarmony profiles that have resulted in marriage, so obviously she had the right person helping her out.

However, since we set up her profile, my sister has refused to do many things on the site, such as communicating with other people. Since I have her log in information I will occasionally log in and check out the prospects. Quite honestly I have been slightly disappointed. There have been a few promising candidates, but more for me than her. Oops, that's awkward.

Anyway, since she refuses to do anything with this profile, I have been acting as her account manager. Which means I am sending questions to people and responding to emails they send to her. Okay, so she has only had one person send her an email so far, but she is making me answer it for her! (okay, obviously I am more than willing to do this. There is something so exciting about dating websites when they aren't actually for you) I am in the middle of composing a response to this lovely man that lives in Salt Lake, and let me tell you, this is tricky business! What do you say? Will my humor translate over email? Very stressful things. Plus, I have to try to sound like my sister! Good thing I have known her for 24 years! (I'm getting old)

Wish me luck on finding the perfect man for my big sis. Maybe we can make a lifetime or Hallmark Channel movie out of this eventually. I'll get started on the screenplay.

Can we talk about how much I love this?

Just so you all know, I am alive. I didn't get swept away in the tsunami, or eaten by a shark (or my students). I have just been ridiculously busy. And kind of lazy. So this post is brought to you in picture form with minimal explanations.  I would like to apologize in advance to those of you who follow me on Instagram as you will have seen many of these pictures before. Enjoy!

 Sushi delivered on a conveyor belt. I don't hate it.

The culinary kids at school bring me food ALL.THE.TIME. I also don't hate this. 

 Are you getting a feel for all that I do here in Hawaii?

 One time I was volunteered to chaperone some children on a community service hike

You would think I had never seen a paycheck before the way I react every time I get one...

These are real sweet potatoes (Okinawan) NOT play dough

One time for a relief society activity we made ghosts for Halloween

Okay, really? How many of the things on this menu would you eat?

I obviously love grading things

The things I do on the weekends to support my department and children

Pumpkin Carving!

Sometimes I'm a demanding diva and make people play instruments for me. It's fine.

This picture, and the next 2 are drawings my FAVORITE 5 year olds (in Hawaii) did on my whiteboard one day when we were hanging out after school. Can you tell which one is me in each picture? I couldn't either.

I figured out the hard part of being in Hawaii

EVERYONE (this is obviously an exaggeration) is sassy

and I am sassy, but they are out sassing me

which I am not used to

I am used to being the sassy one, and now that I have all this sassy competition I don't know how I am supposed to act

It is an interesting game of trying to figure out how I fit into the Hawaii culture, and the only thing I feel right now is that I don't quite fit

I am too white

But everyone is still nice and welcoming, I am just trying to figure out how I am supposed to act around people and this is one of my least favorite discoveries any time I have to do it

really people though, come visit me! You will love it!

If you want to read an update on hawaii go here!

6 days into my stay in Hawaii and I haven't been to the beach yet

But let's be honest, there will be plenty of time for that

I have been to a lot of meetings where I have fallen asleep

(educators and administrators can be so boring sometimes)

I still have no clue what I am teaching, and school starts in about a week

but if they aren't worried about it, then I am not going to let myself be worried about it

My classroom is a MESS

The previous teacher left everything, including 4 layers of dirt, in the classroom and I don't even know where to begin with cleaning it

Thank goodness my mother came with me, I honestly would not have been able to make the move as smoothly without her assistance

For reals, my mom is the best

She has spent so much time cleaning my new house, my classroom and teaching me how to drive stick

and just generally taking care of me and being my mom

Within the next few weeks I should be able to establish more of a routine and figure out my classes and such

then I expect LOTS of visitors!

So remember that one time when I said I turned down a teaching job in Hawaii?

Well I am moving there.

Tomorrow.

Life has a funny way of not turning out how you expect, but at the same time being exactly what you expect

you know?

Wish me luck on my new adventure

I am pretty terrified of having my own classroom

Who thought it was a good idea to give me a diploma and a teaching license?