Tuesday, February 16, 2010

What's Up These Days

Short update on the Retallack family. We haven't been up to much more then the usual day to day events everyone faces during a lifetime. I'll start at the top and work my way down.

Tim has been busy with the Susanville project. He has spent lots of time there, getting security and such fixed up. He is really enjoy the whole project. He has learned lots and foresees even more to learn. Tim has also joined the volunteer fire crew and first response team for Greenhorn. He is a bit timid about it but wants to get involved since we will be here for awhile. He will start meetings in March and go to training sometime after that. I think he will have lots of fun.

I am enrolled once again in college courses this semester; math and science. I will be taking one more science class this summer and then finally graduate with my BA. I am not too sure about the next step as the student teaching and BTSA requirements will add another two years on to my credentialing requirements. I will get a major pay increase after my degree is finalized though. There is also 17 teachers retiring this year so the district could get desperate and hire teachers with prelim credentials; which would be me. At this point I will be teaching full time next year. This year I picked up two courses I am teaching at FRC but I don't know if I will be teaching them next year. It is very time consuming and there is such a lack of communication from their side that I never feel organized.

Raynelle' is finishing up her classes and planning on graduating the early part of May; this year. She will then be applying for the Masters program at Reno University. She will, of course, be moving back to Reno which will be nice for us. She is also busy with working at the college. She sounds like she is having a great time with her life right now.

Mike and Carina are doing well. They are both working hard and we see them quite often. Carina is still working on her Vet Tech stuff. Mike is working at Safeway still but is going to apply for Forest Service jobs this summer. They are both quite amazing in my opinion.

Chris is still involved with music. He is giving guitar lessons and working for the Charter School as a music teacher. He is also going to FRC this semester. He will be moving this summer so he can attend Butte College and major in communications. I'm sure he will be able to find somewhere to play and make some money, especially since Holly will be moving there with him. The two of them are amazing to listen to and watch when they play together.

Nathan is still plugging along in school. He doesn't like anything but Chemistry and Music. The jazz band he is in will be playing in Chico at CSUC. They will be opening for the Jazz Jubilee at the college. I'm not sure what day but sometime in March is what Nathan says. He is also going to play in a local talent show with two other boys; kind of a Latin rock band thing. Nathan is still wanting to go to the Charter School next year, we'll see how that pans out.

The animals are all doing fine. The last Guinea Pig died and we have no intentions of getting another one. It does still seem strange to not feed them in the morning with the other animals.

Well, off to homework.

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