First Week of Classes and Other Funtivities

Wow, senior year has come so quickly!!! (Well basically, I have two quarters of student teaching next fall and winter and then I'll be able to graduate then). So far, I have had three of four classes for the quarter.

I'm taking Applied Exercise Science, Topics in Secondary Education, Christian Scriptures, and then my senior capstone research class (which lasts all year). I am quite excited about Applied Ex. Sci. because we have a new professor this year!! The previous instructor simply lacked major aspects in his teaching and relationship to the students. Our new professor is from Ireland, is an ultra-marathoner with his wife, and is super excited about teaching our class and bettering the program. The entire class was super pumped, and wished that he was our professor for our entire college career, rather than only our last year.

Anyways, cross country has been going well too. My 6k time is already a minute faster than my best time last year! We're racing this weekend in Salem, OR. at the Willamette Invite, which will be very competitive and exciting!!

Roger and I had our 5 year anniversary last week, the 17th, and we had a blast!! I was able to score four tickets to the Mariners game (we were going to see if his Dad and brother could come, but it ended up being just the two of us). At the game, we were sitting right near home base and the dugout!! It was so much fun, and it was also Roger's first pro game! We also went to the movies, we saw Easy A. The movie ended up being a lot better than we thought, and we laughed a ton. :) I made him a scrapbook for his gifty, and I have to say it was pretty cool!!

Also, the chickens are doing well. We've been letting them hang out in the back yard, and they are loving the dirt baths. Fun little chicks.

Time to read and then yoga with the team!

Kayla

Chickens??!

Why yes indeed...we have chickens. My roommate Katja and our friend Phillip got this crazy idea about a week ago. They had some extra time last week and started building a coop, I mean a chicken castle, even before we knew for sure we were getting chickens. We are living in a new town home in the Queen Anne neighborhood of Seattle, with a lovely yard and perfect back area for chickens. We sent a delightful email to our landlord, stating that we wanted to enhance our environmental consciousness and advocacy for green living...and what more could we want than chickens of course!? We waited a few days, playing phone tag, until we finally had the opportunity to speak with him. He was worried about the smell in general, but since he had 17 chickens and we only have three, we feel we can keep it clean and smell to a limit! He also asked about the neighbors, but we assured him that we just asked and they were dying for us to get zee chickens! And finally he sId the words we were waiting for, "Yes! But I reserve the right to say that we're going to have fried chicken tonight." haha, well lets hope that doesn't happen!

So the next day we put the newly designed and constructed chicken castle into the back patio, and it fits snuggly like it was meant to be! One day later we are buying chickens from a man on craigslist who lived in the middle of nowhere...Orting, Washington that is of course. :) As we were almost there, we turned off into a one lane road, which eventually became unpaved, and all we see is this massive logging truck coming our way! Boy was that a laugh! When we arrived to the farm, there were horses, cows, and chickens galore! We were invited into the chicken run, which by the way had some feces that did NOT belong to chickens, and picked out our favorite chickens. We decided on: black ostroloupe, rhode island red, and a cuckoo maran. They are beautiful, and I hope they love their new home!

Anyways, we have one older chicken who is already laying. We were unsure whether she would lay today because of the move, but viola! After i came home from work i found a lovely light brown egg waiting for me! It wasn't in the laying box, but rather it was sort of in the middle of the coop. Hopefully they will learn to lay in the box, that way the eggs to not get damaged. The egg today had a small puncture at the top, nothing major, i just think one of the chickens may have stepped on it. Either way, it is still exciting to get our first egg! We will post pictures soon!

Cuckoo,
Kayla
Katja
And Phil too