Arts Camp day 1...

Hey everyone! I hope y'all are having a fantastic Monday evening! I just wanted to share with you the details from Arts Camp Day 1!!! Arts Camp day 1: Complete! It was a great first day, my kids were really good and the teaching went very well. I am teaching the craft portion of our class so thats really fun and I am playing music for the week in our class as well, which I am SO excited about!!!



As I said in yesterday's post, there's about 350+ kids at the camp total, and so as you can imagine there ALOT of chaos going on. So first thing in the morning (around 7:50am) the volunteers circle up for prayer and last minute instructions for the day, then by around 8am the kids start pouring into the lobby area of the church to sign in to their designated classes. After the kids are all signed in they come sit under these huge balloons that are all different colors to distinguish each track. My track's color is red this year, which is awesome! :) Anyways, after the kids are all inside the main auditorium the worship band starts playing around 8:45am which is called opening session. Then around 9:15am-9:30am, our camp producer teaches the lesson for that day. Then we are dismissed to our classrooms for our lesson that we're teaching. I guess I should tell you guys that our theme this year is called THE TRANSFORMATION GAMES because its one week before the Olympics, we thought it was an appropriate name. Anyways, then after we do our lesson for the day, the kids are dismissed to go home which is around 12:30pm.


Then the volunteers have to go to what is called "debrief" which is basically just going over the day and working out any kinks or problems. Finally, around 1:30pm all of us volunteers are dismissed to go home and rest up for the next day's work.


So that is a little inside scoop of what everyday entails for me and all the rest of the 200+ volunteers. But today went very smoothly for the first day, which I am impressed! So basically my day starts at 5:30am and doesn't stop until roughly 9pm.

Well, thats it for this post! I'll be posting more throughout the week on both blogs, so keep your eye for those! Have a great night everyone! :)

Arts camp set-up day and the week's details...

Hey everyone! I hope you're having a wonderful Sunday afternoon! I just got back from my church thats doing set-up for our VBS camp that is all week that my church members created 11 years ago. I am teaching Music 1st grade-4th grade. I am very excited because this is my first year teaching, I have been a shepard for the past 7 years so it will be a nice change. There's about 350+ kids and about 200+ volunteers, my class has 10 kids and so my part of the class that I'm teaching is the craft section. And I'm also doing a music instrument demo on Thursday for when the kids learn about the String instruments that day. Each day the kids learn about different instruments and do different crafts. Then on Friday, we have a showcase or a performance night of all the tracks to present when they learned for that week. Each of the tracks learn something to present on Friday for the showcase, so its a really fun night to see what all the other tracks are doing.



The tracks that are offered are: Music, Drama, Culinary, Dance, Creative craftsmanship, and Visual Arts. So it will be a very busy week, after I teach and the day is over I have to come home, take care of my 5 month old puppy and do school. I have to be up by 6am and I am there at church until 2pm. Some days I'll be there until 4pm to help clean the campus up for the next day at camp.


Its a long week, but I love it because we are sharing about Jesus to kids who either don't go to church or don't know who Jesus is at all. So throughout the week, I'll be trying to blog about each day and show you guys some fun pictures! Well, thats it for now! I'll be blogging again tomorrow and I hope y'all have a great night! :)

Job News!

Hey everyone! I hope y'all are having a great Monday morning! I just wanted to share with you the news I just recieved about the receptionist job, I unfortunately didn't get it :( But I know that this job wasn't the one that God wanted me to have, I know there's another job out there that is the perfect fit for me. I am just grateful for the opportunity to have been able to apply for the position.


On a more positive note, the trainer that is training my puppy is coming out today for our first lesson! We put his collar on Friday night and he still is yelping and rolling around on the floor trying to get it off. But he has to wear it for training, so he's got to get used to it. Anyways, thats pretty much what is going on today.


On my other blog Beauty Beat, I'll be posting a tutorial and my June beauty favorites later today, so you can head over to www.mariah-cantstopthebeauty.blogspot.com to check that out today. I hope y'all are having a great day and I'll be blgging again soon! :)

I am now a College Student-to-be!!

Hey everyone! I hope y'all are having a wonderful Thursday afternoon! I just wanted to share with you some excellent news about College!! I officially will start  junior college classes online at Thomas Edison state college on September 17th 2012!!! I am very excited about this, it will probably take me 3 years to get my Bachelor's degree in Music with them. Then I will transfer out to University of the Pacific to get my Master's degree in Music Therapy. So I'll be in school for a total of 6 years, but its worth it! Anyways, just thought I'd share that I'm officially registered for college!!! :D Have a fabulous day everyone and I'll be blogging again soon! :)

What goes on at my house....

Hey everyone! I hope y'all are having a great Wednesday afternoon! I thought I would show you what myself and my 2 dogs do for the afternoon: I call it Lazy Wednesdays! Lol

I've been doing my homework in my room today and my dogs decided to join me :) My 13 year old German Shepard Ginger is sleeping on the floor and my little 15 week old puppy Jay-Z gets some special treatment by being able to be up on my bed.


Here's a closer look at him :)

He loves what we call his "bobo" and he likes to sleep with it next to him. There are nights when I put him to bed and he drags his bobo into his crate and snuggles with it :) So adorable!



Here's another cute picture of him I just took a few seconds ago:

Anyways, I thought I'd share with y'all what we do on Wednesdays! Or rather what my dogs do while I do homework :) Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this and I'll be blogging again soon! Have a great day everyone! :)

Job Interview: How it went!

Hey everyone! I hope y'all are having a great Tuesday afternoon! Most of you know from my recent blog updates that I had a job interview today at a fitness center for the position of desk receptionist. I had the interview at 8am and I have to say it wasn't that bad! I mean, it was my first interview EVER in my life but I wasn't nervous, I just remembered to be myself and smile :) The manager said that she had a couple more people to interview for the job and that she would be letting me know about the position by next week sometime. So that was my interview! I think it went really well. I'm happy with the answers I gave to the questions she had asked. So I know this was short, but I really don't have much to say about it :) But I will let you guys know when she lets me know the details good or bad next week :) Have a great day everyone and I'll be blogging again soon! :)

Job News!!!

Hey everyone! I hope y'all had a wonderful weekend! I spent most of my Sunday at church for a meeting for my VBS camp that starts July 16 and goes until July 20th. I am teaching 1st-4th graders in Music!! Super excited about this, it will be my first time teaching a class of 20+ kids! The track leader asked me to do a guitar demo on one of the days, so I'm very excited about that also!


Anyways, onto what this post is about! I got an email from the manager at the fitness center that I applied for the recpetionist job last week and she said I have an interview tomorrow at 8am!! So please pray for me because I haven't actually done an interview before :) But please pray that everything goes well and that they will strongly consider me for the position. I'm hopeful that something good will come out of the interview, but I'm not holding my breath about it. If this is the right job for me right now, God will provide it! Anyways, thats all I know right now. I'll let you know if I get the job as soon as I know more! I hope you have a great day everyone! :)