School is cool

Ok, so it has been sometime since I have posted, but it's just cause life is busy, and it's a "busy" that I am not very used to...I mean, come on, I haven't been in school for 3 1/2 years! I am really liking it though. I work 15 hours a week for my assistantship; I am over 5 schools, and since it's the beginning of the school year, we are staying busy getting these literacy programs started smoothly. I hear that after September work gets pretty slow...which is ok, then I can just use the time to study! I started with 18 credits, decided I might just kill myself, so I am down to 14 credits. I am taking 3 courses: Foundations of Education (required for all students that are getting teaching licenses), Sports Theories (a coaching focused class, very interesting, really like my professor), and a class called Physical Education Curriculum and Special Methods (a physical education focused class, great class, great professor who is very experienced). I like grad school, I find all the smaller classes and discussion groups a much more practical way to learn. In another week for my Foundations of Education class, we will start fieldwork...so I will get to be working and observing in one of the really good schools in the city with an excellent physical education teacher. So far, classes, work, trainings for our tutors for work, and studying keep me very busy...my brain is not used to working so much all day long. I am not used to having to use all my free time to read and study, so it will take some time management...I just got used to my free time and doing what I wanted to in Salt Lake. But I really don't want to stop doing things that I enjoy, or things that I know I should keep doing (i.e. going to the temple, going to FHE, going to Institute, etc). I am really liking my ward a lot, it is literally oozing with talent and intelligence. I meet so many unique and captivating people all the time...like today, i met this violin maker who is finishing up his schooling, one of the three top schools for violin making, and he is going to basically inherit the business of some world renowned violin maker who will retire soon in Washington D.C. I am making friends with lots of new people in the ward, and I am making friends faster, I think, because I have a car...which is a kind of luxury for Boston. I would love visitors to Boston, as I always say...my adjustment is going quite well, and I really love this little neck of the woods...I am glad that one of my dreams did come true, and for whatever reasons, I think they are many, I get to be here in Boston, of all places.