Yogurt Granola Bars and Karma By: Jared West

I’m baaaack. This week has been iconic to say the least. Teaching has been very fun in a lot of ways (and less fun in other ways) but mostly fun. I’ve taught about places and prepositions which has been quite interesting to say the least. Today I taught prepositions and the kids could care less about prepositions (can you blame them? that song on school house rock might be the worst one) but they thoroughly enjoyed the obstacle course and mostly the jelly beans. I had this one group of older kids at the end and they were like “no book” “boring” and etc. I forced them to read the book with me then I was like who wants to do flash cards and most of them were like no. So I went through all of them and asked if they wanted to do flash cards and 5 said no and 2 said yes. Then I proceeded to give only those two kids a jelly bean and they immediately were locked in on flashcards. After they were like “two” pointing at the kids and “one” pointing at themselves and I was like yup!

Places was alright as well as the emergency lesson. I was the group leader yesterday and that was pretty nice. I just chilled with the youngest group because they lose their attention so quickly so we just played with them most the day. I read my book for everyone (which is low key a banger book (anything with bears is automatically a favorite of mine)) and it was absolutely stellar. Everyone sings along with me the actions of the places we go and it was fun and cute.

The food has been very solid especially those freaking yogurt bars. Only problem is that my goober roommate has made it his morning routine to eat one of them and had the audacity to get mad at me when they ran out. (This is a joke I love you Mattheo). We went to this like resort place for thanksgiving and it might have been the most amazing meal I have ever had. I got the penne alfredo and it was SO GOOD! Like almost as good as chilis (and that’s saying something), I ate that thing so speeeeedy. I also got a butterscotch shake which was like interesting to say the least. It was like suspiciously thin, like thinner than milk, and I’m like how is that even possible, but still really good (nothing on the world famous chocolate shakes though). Oh also for lunch each day we get this cookies each day and they are keeping me alive.

Sleeping has been actually pretty solid. I wake up usually once for like ten minutes and use the bathroom but other than that I sleep through the night (although I literally have to sleep with three layers of clothes cause for some reason I am always freezing cold, which is per usual but this is like sweatshirt and coat in the sun type of cold). I have exactly two dreams each night of which I remember quite vividly and are bizarre to another level. They range from having another nephew who I haven’t seen in 5 years, pulling pranks on my friends parents, and witnessing fake contracts at a mortuary. It’s a highlight to wake up every morning and try to remember what happened. If I have ever known you in my life I have probably seen or will see you in the next week.

I saw that the Vikings lost and I cried a little bit (I really hope we absolutely demolish the bears this week) although I’m almost certain my fantasy team won which makes me ecstatic to say the least. The other night I got a drive in me and kid you not wrote an entire song in 2 hours (titled Asheville Paradise (which is only relevant for one person)) and I was very very happy with myself. I’m trying to write more lyrics when I have the chance although I can’t find one I’m extremely passionate about (probably moose vs child (gonna be a banger)). Funny story, at the airport I was listening to Joseph Megamix and one of the brothers sang “I look handsome” instead of “he looks handsome” and I was like I swear that he has never sang that. Anyways I kept listening and I realized I downloaded the wrong freaking cast which makes the few songs I downloaded basically unlistenable cause it drives me crazy which makes me a little sad. Other than that the music has still been setting my vibe although I did download the wrong version of a couple random songs (including not downloading Taylor’s version of enchanted which makes in also unlistenable) which is annoying but I guess bad karma for indulging in sus methods to gain them.

We’re gonna move back to talk about the school. It has been really fun, we play a lot of volleyball which I low key feel like I’m pretty alright at, you gonna find me on the volleyball team? Per chance. We did the electrocuted dance move which is something that only my cousin Nate will understand but it made me happy and they laughed at it. They have this little swing at our school which may or may mot be the sketchiest little thing since the Michael’s in salt lake. They all love it but like bro if you get caught under thing you are done. And it low key especially scares me cause it reminds me so much of the thing that I cracked my head open on when I was kid but no one has gotten hurt on it yet so it’s chill. Also I decided I wanted to try it out and I fit in one of the seats with like .1 nanometer of space left and rode around while they pushed me and although it made me feel seriously ill, it was solid to say the least. It kinda had like a mission space vibe except no space or throw up bags (or seatbelts). This high schooler came over while we were playing volleyball and stole it and like went to hit it to his friend to like show off to us and I was like bro and kind of annoyed but he throws it up in the air and goes to spike it, and just absolutely smacks the crap out of this sign hanging out from the wall and I almost burst out laughing. I think I was the only one that say it but he started vigorously shaking his hand and got his friend and left and I was just like that’s the breeze in my hair on the weekend (karma for those of you that didn’t get the reference) baby.

I’ve developed this new almost super power to sleep literally anywhere and it’s the bomb. I don’t know what allows me to fall asleep so fast but I can, so I do. I’ve always been a passionate and proud napper so it has been a delight. We still have our dead spider friend chilling in the bathroom. We put the bath bomb in front of him on the window so it kind of makes it feel like he isn’t there but you can still feel is presence. Oh also the other night I saw this massive spider on the wall and he crawled behind the tv so I was like someone get him. And both my roommates are like heck nah but they were looking for him and there like there’s nothing there so I got up and looked and didn’t see him so I was like ‘ ,:| then I realized there was like an opening that went further in and I was like just like ope looks like we’re sleeping with a new friend. Haven’t seen him since though. Oh also I feel like every time I bring up my roommates I dog on them but they are actually the bomb and we chill every night.

We usually walk to school which is fun but our bag was really heavy today so they drove us in the bed of this truck and we were just kinda like standing in the open. I played the soarin song on my mp3 player and it low key felt like I was like on soarin but in real life. Simply awesome also it made me really want to ride soarin so Disneyland better be coming soon. Overall the trip has been a lot of fun and I’ve experienced so many new things. One last thing that only my family will understand. You know when we celebrate for Brooklyn and I make fun of y’all, well that was literally me a couple days ago so I will no longer be making fun of y’all. Last thing I didn’t name my last blog London Boy and it’s the biggest regret of my life. That’s all!