The Work Environment...Yes It's True!

I got a request from my Uncle Ron to post pictures of my school. Now my school is not like other schools, my school is unique. Below are real pictures of where I work. My first day of school was today and I'm sure I'll have many adventures to post about in the near future. Now on to the pictures. This first picture is our "campus".

The next picture is the office on the right and the SEI teacher's classroom on the left.

And here is a picture of our mascot, the scorpions, that a few students painted last year. It is painted on the lockers, or the locker bin, not sure what to call it.

Here are our two drinking fountains:

Here it is, my classroom! I bet you can't guess which door leads to my classroom. Yes is the door that is proudly displaying BYU!

The inside set-up of my classroom this year. My first year I had rows, didn't like it. Last year I had quads, didn't really like that either. So this year I have a U shape with a row of horizontal desks in the middle. It really leaves the middle of the classroom open for different activities. We'll find out if I like this or not.

My corner, my desk! I love it!

My "gym" or rather blacktop, painted blue in the middle, and 4 baskets, 2 on each side. Oh the games you can make up to play on the blacktop. Thank goodness for sidewalk chalk!

And the other half of my gym...my nice grass field that in the past two years has developed into dirt and some grass...lovely, especially after they water!
So there you have it, the place I work. It may not be the most fancy school in the world, but the people I work with and the students are wonderful. I couldn't ask for a better work environment! Oh and don't forget to see the few posts that I posted below this. There are 3 new ones today!

Watch Out For....Snakes??

This summer, Mahonri and I took many rides up the canyon to look for deer and elk. We were always successful in finding something. We even got lucky enough one evening to see some turkeys...a hen and her babies. It was really cool because the time before that I was asking Mahonri if there were turkeys in our mountains and if we would ever see any. I really wish I could post some pictures of the turkeys and nice deer and elk we saw, but unfortunately the pictures are on the video camera and the video camera is in Gunnison and I am not. Anyway, on August 1 we decided to take a ride up the canyon which is not unusual. As we were just getting onto the dirt road that leads up the canyon, just outside of Mayfield, Mahonri spots something in the road. He tells me he is sure that it is a snake and most likely a rattlesnake. He backs the truck up to see, and sure enough, there is a rattlesnake in the middle of the road trying to make it to the other side. Since rattlesnakes are really no good, he decides he wants to run it over. Hmmm, not as easy as it sounds. He tries many times to run over the snake but somehow it seems to keep getting out of the way. He finally decides to get out of the truck to just look, wishing this whole time that he had left his 22 in the truck so he could just shoot the dang thing. Now for some unknown reason, I decide to speak up and tell Mahonri to just use a pole that he has in the truck to try to kill the snake. (Why would I give him this idea...I still ask myself that same question.) He gets out the pole and smacks the snake in the head...instantly dead. One might think this is the end but no, Mahonri decides to do this...

Of course you have to proudly display the things you kill. And guess where that snake went after that, in the back of the truck. Seriously, I was scared to death. I HATE snakes. Good job Mahonri for making one less snake out there to freak me out and getting a rattle out of the deal isn't so bad either!

Pictures From Yellowstone...Finally

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