oww! stupid loft, i keep hitting my head on it. i need to put up a sign that says "WATCH YOUR STUPID HEAD". i better adjust soon, or i'm going to have welts all over.

anyways, first time teaching princeton review today, REAL teaching. went ok, i guess. verbal just isnt a very interesting topic. one kid in my class, yea. 280(or 290) on his verbal section. like a 340 on math, something like that. weird, huh? i sure hope i can help him raise his score. anyways, after class i returned to my room to do a few things, then decided to skip on over (or walk, actually) to the conservatory again since the weather was so nice. plus my room was a bit loud due to the football game going on outside my window. (btw, my room is essentially on the 50 yard line). conservatory was beautiful, sunny, flowers were blooming...last time i went was nice too, but that was the end of winter. anyways, highlights of my trip:
1. the butterfly garden. i dont know what it is about butterflies, but seeing them makes me happy. there were so many just darting around my head, and there i am, trying to figure out what species it is. one of my more favs are the peacock ones. they're white w/ these pearly colored decorations on the wings.

2. the sensitive plant. that's what the tag says. you touch it, and the leaves all close up. it looks kinda fern-like. i vaguely remember my dad telling me about those when i was kid once, walking past my elementary school, but yea. i was SO entranced by this. i just sat around closing up all the leaves. hee hee. i got the woman next to me obsessed too. :)

3. the chocolate mint. so you rub your fingers against the leaves, and then you smell them, and it smells like chocolate mint! now if you know anything about me, you know my obsession w/ junior mints. mmMmmMm...yummy. i had half a mind to rip off a leaf, but then it'd probably stop working, so i decided against it.

4. some really nice smelling flowers...i dont remember which they were, i think a few were orchids. and of course, gardenias. i want a lot of gardenias when i grow up. they seriously smell so good.


5. the cooling zone. in the outdoors garden part, they had one of those pipe thingies you walk under, and it sprays you with water. it felt really nice. plus it was motion sensor, so it didnt go off till i walked through.

anyways, i had a really nice time just checking out the place, and spending some quiet time. school starts tomorrow, and things start getting hectic. this week, i've been having to wake up so early each day...blah. and my weekends from now till mid oct. will not be time to sleep in cuz of princeton review. the lengths i go to for money...seriously!

well, wish me luck this semester in school! i'll need it.