omgeeeee a care package for meeeee!

Ok so we sang a song by the Muppets in class today. I thought it was a fabulous idea, of course, and it took me on a throwback to my youth. My kids didn't quite get the significance of "No One Like You" but that's ok. They still poked their eyes and noses and mouths at the appropriate times during the song.

What IS it about my students in that one class* being INSANE and the teacher not doing anything about it?! At least in the other classes the teachers scream their heads off and the kids calm down.

So the reason of this post is because I GOT AN AMAZING CARE PACKAGE FROM ANNA AND LACIE.
The contents?
~ Two packages of DoubleStuf Oreos: one regular, one mint
~ Two containers of Rainbow Chip frosting, whose greatness cannot be exaggerated
~ Tootsie Rolls and Dots and suckers (it's like Halloween exploded in the box)
~ One box of butter microwave popcorn
~ One box of Kraft Mac and Cheese

Clearly these women know the way to my heart. I love them to pieces and I need to get out to Oregon somehow, someway RUL soon.

Which leads me to a point:
I'd really like to do a roadtrip of America. I realize that I now have the most amazing chance to see Europe and I'm really carpe diem-ing that (In just four days I will be in Spain, then Italy, then Monaco, then Germany, then Austria... ok so that's over the next few months) and I really want to see America.
I want to see America for multiple reasons. Right now I'm all homesick and America-sick. I want to see America because of Girlyman's song, "Amaze Me." I want to see America because I want to be able to get in a car and drive. Drive across it, drive up and down it, anything. It'd be so awesome to follow hte Mississippi down or to take that one famous highway all the way across (sorry, don't remember which one it is!). And right now I am realizing how many people I know who have started lives all over the place. EVERYONE IS EVERYWHERE. So awesome.

But uuuuuum that's not gonna happen because I have to go get a job and be a real person and figure out some stuff about life.

*teacher's name and students' names withheld for privacy. the blogging world is crazy!