Weekend Fun!

Living here in Celebration has not only given me a great opportunity for teaching, but also some amazing experiences outside of the classroom! While not working on lessons and stuff for teaching, I have been having a blast enjoying what the Orlando area has to offer. Let me tell you, my weekends are way way different than a weekend in little Ashland, Ohio..

Last weekend all of the current interns went to Gatorland with the past interns that now have jobs down here. It was really neat seeing all the alligators...but a little scary. They had a lot of giant ones that were caught all around Florida and were considered dangerous. One of them, "Chester", was known for eating dogs. I sure am glad that we don't have alligators in Ohio!!!

  

Hannah and I are very close with our host family. I couldn't have asked for a better family to live with. It really feels like home here and that's so nice when you're in a place that is new to you. We get to sit down and have dinner with them every night and just hang out with them. They make sure we are always having a great time whether that means riding bikes, cruising around town in a convertible, going out to dinner, playing pranks, or just hanging out. The family had us create a bucket list and are making sure we get to do everything on it. This weekend from our bucket list we picked some oranges right off an orange tree! I'm eating one right now and it is sooo good!!!

Their two kids are in high school and we're loving hanging out with them. Cameron, our "brother", races dirt bikes so we surprised him this weekend by going to a race! We made shirts with his name and number on it even. Later that day we went with Savanna, our "sister", and one of her friends to Magic Kingdom in Disney. It's so crazy that when we get bored we can just go right around the corner to Disney World!

I've been able to do so much in just these two weeks that I've been here. I'm so blessed to have this opportunity and can't wait for what the next weeks bring!