Scrapbook has arrived!!!!

My lovely scrapbook from my adventures this summer has arrived and have approved for everyone else to see. Please take a look and enjoy the lovely photos:)

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AEPA

Yesterday I took my teacher certification test, the Arizona Educator Proficiency Assessment, and spent about 3 hours for each section. Oh my goodness was it a bit challenging! I felt my whole energy was sucked out of me by the time I was done with it all! I hope that I passes the test and I know I did but I just am still nervous to get my results. I find out on August 11 whether I need to retake any part of the test. I really do not want to repeat any of it but I came out feeling better about the Subject Test than the Professional Knowledge. The hardest part is that you can narrow the answers down from 4 to 2 but the 2 that you are left with sound both correct. You then have to make the decision which one is the better of the two...why do they do such a thing to us?! Is it not enough that they make us take such long tests in the first place? My hand was in pain by the end of the day since I write 3 short responses and 1 essay, well it was more describing a lesson plan but still.
But someone very close to me reminded of God says about being anxious since I kept saying that I am getting nervous about finding my score out on the 11th:
"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus."
Philippians 4:6-7

Back here...

So I made it saefly back to Phoenix Sunday night and saw my family right away as we celebrated Ethan's 4th birthday. But it is so hot here!! Todays forecast says it is suppose to be 114 F ...ahhh!!!! It is way too warm for that!!! Summer really has started here!! But that is what we have a pool for. I have gone swimming at least twice every day that I have been back.

I do miss being in Germany though!!!!!

My last day in Regensburg

(<-orientation, the group)
I cannot believe that today is my last day here in Regensburg. I feel like it was just yesterday that I had arrivd here and had no idea where anything was. Of course the city feels ten times smaller now that I do know where to buy my groceries or where the Post Office is or the Bank and of course the best places to eat food.

(culture class, Thurn und Taxis)

I am both sad and happy to be done since the school part is over and I can actually enjoy my summer...wait, I have summer right now, I had no idea since I have been working very hard in my literature class. But guess what! It has paid off since my professor just told me my grades and I got an A in the culture class and an A- in the literature class. I am so happy to have gotten the grades since I was so worried that I would get a B.

(<-some of the group at Walhalla)

It has been a great experience to be with this group despite the different interests that we all had. There were no major arguments amongst roommates, even when some people got locked out or had a rommate that snored nice and loud. But what can I say that came out from it all, an awesome learning expereince, great food and even better stories to bring back across the ocean.

Tonight we are having dinner as group to say thank you to the host families that housed two girls in the program and for us all to be together one last time. We are all axcited to go home but I believe half of us are staying somewhere in Germany for at least a week longer.

By the way, Deutschland is amazing in Fussball because even many of the locals said the they could not beat Portugal in the game. Oh we definitely showed them!

some different foods from Deutschland...

So here are some various foods I had throughout the weeks that I have been here, some are German dishes and others are just foods that I decided to try while I was here. There is a picture of how my night stand looked with all the food I bought so that I would not have to buy lunch everyday, since that got a little expensive to go out all the time:

Walhalla

So the pictures above are from our cultural excursion on Tuesday to Walhalla. There are so many facts that were told about this place that I don't think I can remember all the facts without getting them mixed up with things that we saw along the way. But what I can say is that this was not originally from here and that it was transported here in the 1800s or something like that. There are some amazing views from up here though. The picture in the bottem right shows the way to Regensburg though. As usual, there was construction on the stairs so I didn't take too many pictures of them.

Fussball Feber

Tonight is an important for the Deutschland soccer team, we need to beat Austria in order to continue on and everyone on the news is predicting a strong win. I hope this is true because last Thursdays loss was quite sad...the calls were not too fair in my opinion really...I am working on my homework just so that I can have a chance to watch the game...this time we are not going to a bar to watch even though we would have a bigger screen than the tiny 13'' tv in our room...but i can work on other things in between...