Stories from the Bar

So, since I've been there, it seems that there are always a few funny or interesting things that happen. Things that are a little beyond what I'm used to in my normal everyday life. I've never been one to go out to the bar like these kids do at Brothers.

First story: 4 frat boys come in on a dead night and start ordering shots. One of them claims he's paying. And after 20 minutes they've had 10 shots each and racked up a tab of about $200 which one of the kids easily pays with daddy's credit card. Then he goes and misses the bathroom and pukes in the back near our ice machine. This was the night where I wasn't doing anything, just standing next to them as they did this and the kid asked if he could tip me. I was just standing there. I said yes, and he gave me 5 bucks. Then he tried tipping us 100 bucks for his tab but drunkenly came back for a more normal tip. I guess that's college life.

Story number 2: Not as interesting. I just met Sam Bradford, the next Heisman winner there and he was a pretty cool guy. I was pretty excited. And i'm excited to start watching him play, starting next Saturday!

Number tres: Wednesday's are big nights for us. Hundreds upon hundreds in the bar and just getting crunked. A few fights, some blood and several cops. 230AM, everyone is out and on the street and there are several cops also. The street we are on is a one way street and there are two cop cars there with their lights flashing just talking to drunk people, maybe giving some tickets. That's when it happened. Some underage kid, drunk, turned down this street going the wrong way. Think the cop gave him a ticket? It gets worse. He hit the cop car and pinned the cop in his door. Charged with assault with a deadly weapon, this kid's parents probably weren't too happy about that.

I'll write more as they come. Hope all is well. talk to you all soon.

Adventures in a New Job

So, i've been living back in Norman for a few weeks now and have been working pretty a lot for over a week now. Put in more than 40 hours my first week and on pace to smash that record this week. Just in time to get ready in time for school to start on Monday. Wow. I'm lookin for things to slow down ,but i really don't see that happening. At the moment, I'm not really allowed anything more than maybe a 3 or 4 hour nap at night time since i get home at about 330ish in the morning and a 2 hour nap in the afternoon when i have a break between the morning and evening shifts. But things are good I think. I am happy i was able to find a job so easily and i hope to continue here during the school year. I'm really tired now, so i hope to keep up some more notes as the year progresses.

I feel things will start to become steadily crazy busy as school starts and i'll be at high school all day and then at work all night and then try and find time to attend my other college classes and do homework and maybe see my family every once in a while. we'll just have to wait and see. I'll fill u in on any fun stories as they come. I think i can think of some, but i'l write them soon, just not now.

Back in Norman

I've moved once again. I feel like the next year will be a lot of moving around, and a lot of tedious motions at that. But we'll just have to wait and see what plays out i suppose. I've moved back to Norman, OK. I've been living here again for about a week or so and I've moved into a cute little house with some of my friends. Things I've missed about living in a house:
- having my own room
- not sleeping on a bunk bed
- sleeping on a big comfortable bed
- getting good air circulation in my sleeping quarters
- having a big backyard so i don't have to walk my dog 3 times a day
- having a dishwasher
- having a patio to go outside and chill under

And there's gotta be hundreds others but that's just what i could think of off the top of my head. It's going well here though, I'm enjoying everything and how it's going here. I have a semester of living here in Norman. If you don't know, I'm living here because I have to take 12 hours of Graduate credit (which includes my student teaching) in order to finish my teacher certification so as to be a certified history teacher here in America. So life will prove to be really really busy this semester. I think it'll be safe to say that my time won't belong to me. This isn't really a semester that will be fun, but moreso a semester of necessity, which i need to understand before the semester starts. I just need to pray daily for energy to make it through the day. For i believe I will be at the high school from 8-2 mon-fri and all thurs taking classes and the rest of my free time will be devoted to working my ass off so as to make enough money to survive off of for the following few months.

I've recently gotten a job at a local bar, Brother's, on Campus Corner and I've been working hardcore recently and will be working hardcore next week in preparation in getting trained up in time for the football season. It's fun there, and I enjoy it and they're the only ones that have given me a job so far, so i feel lucky to have it and to be making some money.

My student teaching will be taking place at Norman North High School. I'm looking forward to starting that next Monday and seeing what it will be like. It will be interesting to compare it to my time in Czech Republic in many ways:
- difference of teaching History instead of ESL
- teaching in America (rules, rules, rules)
- teaching American kids v. Czech kids
- everyone understanding me (mostly)
- staying in the same room all day

And many others. We'll just wait and see and I'll keep you all updated on it all. Hope all is good. Thanks

New Wheels

Movin back to the land of driving, I had to submit to the lifestyle and buy myself something as to get around it. Therefore, here we are, with me and the new 94 Accord

Got My Bag!

Got back on Wed, and they said, yea, it'll come on the late flight, don't worry. The next morning, they said, yea, it's been scanned to come on the morning flight, don't worry. I called back later that afternoon and they said, "Well, we have no idea where your bag is, it wasn't scanned to be on any flight." Later that day, i talked with a guy who told me that they usually find the bags within the first 24 hours, so i told him that they have about 3 hours left... He said they should find it in the next 3 hours :D 2 days later, the lady brings the bag to my house and as I'm signing for it, she says, "Whoa, you came on Wednesday? That was a long time ago." I said I know and gave her a nice smile.