Hi there! How are y'all guys doing today? (Notice that you cannont answer that question unless you hit the little thing that says "comment". Almost nobody has been commenting the last couple days!)

Wow, things have been really nuts around here! Monday we started summer gymnastics camps. We teach from 8 to 11, 45 minutes per event. It has certainly been streching me as a teacher: normally we have 25 minutes max per event, so I've had to start doing all sorts of interesting stuff to make it more interesting for the kids. We then have a mini-camp from 11:30 to 12:30: this week it's a boys only camp. Jamie and I have been teaching it. Working with the older kids is pretty easy, but working with the younger guys (5 and 6 year olds) is next to impossible. Not only do these guys have absolutly no idea where they are in space, they don't listen to me, and when they do, they don't understand the simplist instructions. How hard is it to straighten your knees? Is this a hard thing to understand? How about "Sit next to Jake"? Man, they sure can try your patience!

I'm really tired. Monday we had camps in the morning, then I worked a day care, came home for about twenty minutes, went to the library to study, came home for 30 minutes, left for karate and got home at 10:30. Tuesday I worked all morning, came home and took a nap (yes!) and then went back to work at 6. I worked with Tracey on a class that was pretty good to teach and then I helped with a cheerleading class. Ok, so the people getting together this cheerleading thing told my boss they are bringing at least 50 girls. We had 15. My boss was pretty upset with them: she had paid enough teachers to come out for 50 girls and we only had 15. Anyway I worked with three third graders. They hadn't the slightest idea what they were doing, but we did manage to teach them some stuff. Then this morning I worked camps again and took another nap this afternoon!

I got an email from Rebekkah today in which she mentioned that we first met when we were both 15. For some reason that struck me as very strange. It doesn't seem that long ago.

Monday Dad's aunt Helen came over for a couple days to visit. She was a blast. I sure hope I'm as full of energy as she is when I'm her age. She went with us to karate Monday night and then they took her to the gun museum on Tuesday. She left this morning for home.

I had a really good time at karate Monday night. After class they brought out some plastic boards and were doing some breaking. (The plastic boards are just as hard (or harder) than normal boards, but you can put them back together after you've broken it!) I broke a board with a right hammer fist, a right knife hand, a left hammer fist, a left knife hand and with a knee strike. I also broke one with my head (no, it didn't actually hurt much at all). The break I was really proud of was one were I held the board in my left hand and struck it with my opened right hand and broke it. Both a green belt and a brown belt tried to do it as well, but couldn't do it! I was so proud of myself! :)

BonnieJean is doing finals this week. In fact she is having two of them right now and she'll have the other two on Friday. She's fallen behind this quarter, but I think she did manage to get all her lessons done by this afternoon. But I don't think she had that much time left for review, but we're hoping she does well anyway.

And on the 14 I'm going to be taking the ACT! AHHH! I'm pretty sure I'll do well on all the sections except math. I stink at math. But I guess I'll live.

I need to get off the computer now. Talk to y'all guys later!