Just call me Ms. Anderson

This insanely busy summer of studying and teaching for no $ has resulted in this: school has started and I am officially a teacher. I am teaching Honors World Geography and co-coaching girls soccer. Perfect for me, right? It is a lot of work (in at 7:30, out at around 4:30 to only do more work at home), but I am loving it so far (but ask me how I feel later this year and my answer might differ...). The kids have lots of energy, but good energy that just needs to be channeled.

This whole week has been quite enjoyable, but I think my favorite moment was this one:
One of my Honors World Geography students responded to my question regarding where I am from with "CONNECTICUT!" I burst out laughing because it was completely unexpected (I was expecting Texas (even though I already said I was not from Texas) or something like Oklahoma or California) and he was so sure of his answer. I now call him Connecticut.

FC Barcelona V Club America

G and I went to the FC Barcelona v. Club America game at Cowboys Stadium yesterday. Why?
1. Air conditioned location outside my apartment (too hot to do anything outside).
2. I LOVE soccer football...and I am working to get G into the sport.
3. Check out the new stadium.
4. Snagged great tickets for cheap.
5. FC Barcelona is one of the best teams in the world (and sponsored by the Qatar Foundation).

Cowboys Stadium. Looks like a spaceship landed in the Metroplex (you can see it from miles away). Fact: Cost over 1 billion dollars (I use that fact when talking about the Louisiana Purchase with students, which only cost a bit over 200 million in today's $, to help put it all in perspective).

We are in Dallas Cowboys territory and thus OF COURSE Cowboys Cheerleaders will be there for the coin toss.

G was excited to check out the engineering of the stadium (massive doors, huge TV screen, fancy roof...) and attend his first big soccer football game.

View of field from our seats. We were in the first row on level 2 (of 4). We were very, very happy with our seats since we scored them for cheap.

FC Barcalona is the red/blue team, Club America is the yellow team. Doing whatever they do before kickoff.

FC Barcelona scores! We were lucky because most of the action the entire game was on our end!

He was fine.

Ref giving a yellow card. Do not mess with that face. A good teacher face.

Villa, one of the stars, leaves the game...and you see QF is prominently featured on the jersey. It boggled my mind to see hundreds, if not, thousands of shirts with QF on them. Makes me miss Qatar a bit more.

Necessary pic of me at the game. I look horrendous. I blame it on the hot walk to the stadium. We parked for $20 about a mile away. It costs $75 to park at the stadium. No joke.

It was 108 today. And 109 is predicted for tomorrow. And...

...100+ degrees each day for the foreseeable future. Awesome, just awesome.

It is too hot to go outside.

It has been 100+ degrees for over 30 days. I feel like I am in the Middle East again.

But I am keeping my whining to a minimum. Just a few salty words whenever I get into the oven that is my car.

I long for weather on the opposite end of the spectrum: snow, cold, rain... Like this:

A typical day in Siberiacuse.

And ice cream. Lots and lots of ice cream.

Update (8/3): It was 110 yesterday. Hottest day in 11 years (all time high is 113 degrees). And today's low was 86 degrees. The hottest low since 1939!