Well, I am two weeks into teaching 5th grade, and am really enjoying it.   It’s kind of scary; that I’m enjoying this so much, but I guess it could be my genetics (my parents have both been teacher for almost 30 years now).  Sorry mom and dad; if the makes you two sound old, you are not old.  I have had a few tough days but it has been a really great learning experience.  I have 14 students, 10 girls and 4 boys; it is a little lopped sided.  The class is doing well, and getting along great. It is like I was given the most perfect and intelligent group of students in the school. All in all, I am really glad that God has given me the opportunity to educate this group of students.

Last Saturday, Renae and I decided we needed to go see the San Francisco Giants play a baseball game. Well, what helped was the fact that they were playing in San Diego.  So we jumped on-line and purchased some day of game tickets.  That afternoon we drove down to Petco Park and were able to watch an exciting game.  Our seats were in the Upper Reserved by the right field foul pole.  The stadium was really nice; it was the first time that I had gone to it.  The best part about the game was that the Giants won 7 to 0.  The picture Tim Lincecum pitched the complete game shutout.  He is by far the Giants’ best pitcher on the roster, going 17-3 so far this season with another game or two left for him to pitch.

On a side note, I was thinking about the baseball stadiums that I have been to…
PacBell Park, San Francisco (or whatever it is being called this year)
Candlestick Park, San Francisco (for us old-time Giants fans)
Comerica Park, Detroit
Dodger Stadium, Los Angeles (I was there to watch a Giants game)
Angel Stadium, Anaheim
Fenway Park, Boston
and now
Petco Park, San Diego

The funny thing is that in my 18 years that I lived in San Francisco I never have been to the Oakland Coliseum to watch a baseball game.  So that is six of the MLB stadiums that I have been to, to watch games.  I have a little bit of a list ahead of me to make it to every stadium.  Who know if I’ll ever be able to go to all of them.  Oh, and a bummer that I’ll never be able to make it to Yankee Stadium as this is the last year they are using it.  It makes me wish that we actually had snuck out on my senior trip to go watch them play. (okay we had thought about it but the Yankees were out of town the 3 days we were in NYC, so there wasn’t that opportunity).  Anyways I look forward to many more baseball games in many more stadiums.

*[Disclaimer: Just becuase I am a teacher does not guarantee that my spelling and grammer is 100% accurate in my posts.]

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