Students and Squirrels

I have been having another great class for the summer quarter. It's a smaller class, which is normal for summer. One student is missing in this picture. My students are from Iran, Bolivia, Mexico, China, Columbia, and Ukraine. This picture was from a birthday party we were having at the end of class for Hoda (in pink).

Here's the party in our classroom. We had cake, cupcakes, and o.j.

The birthday girl. She's moving to Texas which is sad for me. I enjoyed her as both a student and a friend.

Ryan put out bird feeders on our front deck and squirrel food outside our bedroom window. We've been enjoying watching about 5 squirrels chowing down today. This food won't last too much longer. The pics are a little dark because I took them through the window....a flash would cause a reflection.

I would get awful heartburn eating like this!


On Sunday I'm off to Michigan for 2 weeks to go to the university that I'll be doing my masters program out of. The rest of the year will be online. I don't want to be away from Ryan, but this is a nice way for the students to meet each other since we'll be a cohort going through all of the same classes online together for the next roughly 2 years. I'm excited that it is a Christian school and look forward to meeting new people.