Five for Friday!! (and more guinea pigs)

HOORAY FOR FRIDAY. I thought this day would never come. It's been a long past two days of summer training/orientation and we haven't even started curriculum planning yet (oh boy). Anyways, I'm linking up this Friday with Doodle Bugs Teaching's Five for Friday linky for the first time! I think it'll be fun to reflect back at my week, since I usually can't even remember what I had for breakfast at the end of the day. Here we go!

Monday

Presenting, her royal highness, Hazel the guinea pig! This baby bundle of joy was given to my friend and I to take care for a few days while her real owner was on a trip. Needless to say, this little thing was so adorable, and her cute looks got the best of us. She ran around all over my living room and decided that a good place to hide would be underneath my couch...so we had to corner, capture, and re-cage the tiny beast. Trust me, guinea pigs can be very quick and sneaky. 

Tuesday

I love hiking, and the views in Hawaii are gorgeous. So I woke up at 4 am to go hiking up one of the famous sunrise-viewing places on the island: Pillbox Hike in Kailua, Hawaii. It's roughly a mile hike, a little more, that is steep and rocky in some places. To put it simply, you kinda have to scale a mountain to arrive at abandoned, graffitied military bunkers, but I promise that the view is worth it. The picture above was taken around 5 am from the top of the first bunker, overlooking Lanikai and the Mokulua. 

At 5:48 am, right on cue, the sun began to peek out of the clouds. Although the hike up to the bunkers was pretty much done in the dark with the aid of flashlights, and took a little under an hour to complete, the hike back down took about 20 minutes, leaving more than enough time to get to Cinnamon's Restaurant in Kailua before the morning crowd.

Wednesday

Crafts, crafts, and more crafts!! I've wanted to make a letter for a while, but didn't know quite what I wanted to put on it. Jewels? Flowers? Photos? I opted for an array of purple and violet roses I picked up from the craft store, and after a few hours of gluing flower buds onto the wooden letter, my letter was finished! It is now resting nicely in my room alongside the note/cork board I made earlier!

Thursday

Ladies and gentlemen, we have our final two colleges.  On Thursday, my brother came back from his college trip with my parents, and proudly announced that he narrowed down his colleges to Chapman and Colorado State...so he can either be a Panther or a Ram. I told him that for fashion purposes, I look best in red and white, but he looks best in green and yellow. Only time (and scholarships) will tell which school he chooses, but I'm excited for him nonetheless. Yay for college!!!

Friday

And here begins the lesson planning. Along with 3 other teammates, I get to plan and teach 7th grade English lessons for this summer. I've never read this book, but I've heard very good things about it, so I'm pretty excited to start! We start curriculum planning next week (phew), so I'm going to be doing a lot of reading and thinking in these next few days!

Have a wonderful weekend!

xo,