Finding stuff

As part of my continuation of August's goals, I decided to clean out an old room that a few people have lived in over our lives - a room we call Moritz's room. It as named after our foreign exchange student who spent a year with us. And even though people lived in it before and after him, he defined it. 

I found a lot of old memories in an armoir in that room. BTW, that armoir is free so if you want it, come get it!

 First, I found my first cell phone ever. I didn't get one until sophomore year of college - spring 2003. Look how ridiculous it is. I remember the first day I had it, I couldn't figure it out and it kept going off in a class I was in. It was a small class - like 10 people and the professor was like, "Can you shut that off?" and I was like, "I don't know how!". Idiot.

Then I found the observation journal I kept from my first month of the graduate program I did. We had to observe everything from kids arriving at school to how the office worked to lunch time to guidance to a teacher in every department to specialty classes like art, gym, music, art, languages etc... We had to shadow a student for an entire day and a vice principal for a day and one of our fellow student teachers for a lesson and much more. It was a lot of observing.  I think that would be a good idea for a new teacher at every school. And maybe veterans too. Sometimes we think we know how things should run or how they work but we haven't seen it in awhile and are wrong.  My observations were 25 pages long. It brought back a lot of memories reading through it all. It also reminded me of some good things my high school (Hopkinton) and Central do. Stuff I forgot about.

And then this random box of stuff. There are honor cords I wore to graduations, ribbons for NRHH (which I was president of for a year), my name tag from when I worked at Hoyts, old jewelry, my first night button from 2001, stamps, money from Italy before it started using the euro, choir pins from high school, a hair decoration from my prom, an iron on patch form a band I used to like, a bracelet I was given when I was 5, and a collar from my dog Max. I have no idea what moose mania is or that star or why I have an all-star game 1999 pin - I certainly didn't go to the game. Random

And I found allllllll of my scrapbooking stuff from back in the day when I did it allllll the time.