i have decided that i like the movie schultze gets the blues. yep.

snow was flying today when i drove to school.
that made me happy.
soon there will be ice and skates and sticks and pucks.
this makes me happy too.
mmmm, frost in my hair, red in my cheeks.
i love seasons.

Schultze...

My sister and I just came back from a movie night at a friend's house.
We rented a foreign film today which was called, are you ready for it,
"Schultze Gets the Blues" ...a German film!
The back of the cover said that it was a big German hit, and so we thought it would be a good way to brush up on our German speaking skills...with the luxury of english subtitles.

It was hard to brush up on our German skills when there was barely any speaking in the film.

It was 2 hours long...sehr lange. It probably would have been great if they cut out all the still shots that never ended...pretty long long long. (Maybe Germans are more patient than North Americans.)

As much as it was extremely long and at many moments not very exciting or even interesting, (except when you consider why they used the shots and angles that they did), I feel better about watching that, (with the exclusion of a few less than good lines) than I do about watching a crappy movie and feeling gross afterwards, or an unrealistic, super sappy, make-me-uncontent-with-my-life (or single status-because I am content otherwise) film. (And I usually feel the best not watching any movie at all to be honest.)

The Gnombs were a highlight.

A big hit in germany.

Goodnight.

To post or not to post...

I have been feeling a fair amount of pressure to blog lately. Let it be known that I will not be a slave to the blog...regardless...fine...I'll post.

Thoughts on salary of teachers...

I have decided that it is ridiculous for teachers, even from when they are not even teachers yet, to complain about the amount of money they make. I do not mean to make a generalization here, because they are not all like this, but it seems that it is the complaining that I hear the most lately and I am only in my third week of the teaching program.
As a becoming teacher I see great value in the teaching profession, or I would not be it. I know it has value in the world but the value is not financial. I am deciding here and now never to complain about salary. I will not rely on money to make my standard of living or perhaps I should say, QUALITY of living rich. I will learn to be content in all circumstances...check out what the apostle Paul has to say about that.

What do you think about this?

I would write and think more on this right now but I need to run to the post office before class to send off a little something to a Gnombe appreciating friend.

There...a post...are certain individuals happy now...:)...more to come...I guess.