Wow, has it really been that long since I’ve updated?

I guess it has been that long. The biggest news of all is that Charlotte and I have bought a house. We started looking around for a new home or apartment in January and in February we found an absolutely amazing place in southeast New Hampshire. We will be closing on the house on March 23. The place is so much more than we expected to find, because the home is owned by a corporation. Basically, a postal service worker sold it to the corporation so that he could go work in Texas. The corporation sold the home well below its value so that the property could be taken off the market quickly. Needless to say, the place is beautiful and we were lucky to find all of its features in our price range.

I do have pictures of the place but will not make the pictures available here just for privacy reasons. Any family or friends that want to take a look at the place can shoot me an e-mail and I’ll send you a link to the private photo album.

Temperatures have been warming up here. We finally hit a high in the 40′s this weekend! The highs have been in the 30′s for a while now. It has snowed plenty of inches this year already. Just this past Thursday Rochester, NH received about 6 inches. Unbelievable.

My class at Lowell Community Charter Public school (LCCPS) can now find their homework and school news online now. That information is on The Teacher Years page.

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Happy Thanksgiving!

The fall foliage trip to Mount Washington in northern New Hampshire is complete. Charlotte and I drove up and took many photographs, some of which I wanted to share with you today. There is news on the teaching interview, more on that in a second though. Here are photos of the fall foliage in New Hampshire. Some of these photographs are even available as desktop wallpaper for you to download on your computer. These wallpapers are available in 2 different screen resolutions. Enjoy the photos!

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Now about the teaching interview…there’s a lot to be thankful this Thanksgiving. On October 25 I was hired by the Lowell Community Charter Public School in Lowell, MA. The position was to be an acceleration teacher, who helps academically struggling students. A few days later on my birthday, November 1, I was instead named the full classroom teacher for 7th grade math and science! There are many challenges I’ve been facing, having been thrown into the difficult task of turning around a classroom that was out of control. The students had become accustomed to not having rules enforced or being held accountable for not doing their assignments. The students were frustrated. The previous teacher was frustrated.

Now, at the end of what is roughly my third week with the class, I do feel things are coming around. Still, more challenges remain. Students face rigorous state exams in the spring that they are grossly unprepared for. I like the challenge ahead of me and will work hard to make sure that I’ve done everything I can to help these students! Teaching again is definitely one big reason to be thankful!

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This update was long overdue but definitely not because of a lack of things going on.

In May (yes, it’s been that long since we’ve updated), Charlotte received her masters degree from Texas Women’s University. She is now a Master of Library Sciences. Recently, Charlotte secured a position as the Children and Young Adult Librarian with the Durham Public Library in Durham, NH. Way to go!

Lorenzo is searching for a teaching position for the 2006-2007 school year and has applications filed with many schools. The job market, as it was last year, seems pretty challenging for teachers in New England. Though he has 3 years of experience under his belt and the No Child Left Behind status as a highly-qualified teacher, Lorenzo has been waiting and praying for the opportunity to teach again. On September 26 Lorenzo interviewed with a school in Lowell, Massachusetts.

In other job news, the media specialist position at Best Buy has been a tremendous amount of fun and in August Lorenzo was offered an administrator position with Magnolia Home Theater, which is located inside Best Buy but a partner company. Management has been looking into what the potential pay grade increases may be (if any), which they will soon present to Lorenzo. We’ll keep you posted on any news regarding either the teaching interview or the upcoming meeting where Best Buy presents their offer.

On Saturday, August 19 Lorenzo and Charlotte visited the Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth, NH. The museum is the New Hampshire seacoast’s oldest neighborhood, dating back to the 1600′s. Guests to the neighborhood’s homes included George Washington and John Hancock. The museum has different homes that each fly a flag in front of it that show what period of U.S. history the home was from. Inside, the rooms are made up to showcase the history of the home and the look of homes in that time period. Here are some photos of the day, including some craftsmen and staff dressed in costumes of the era:

For more on the Strawbery Banke (this is really how it’s spelled), here’s their website: http://www.strawberybanke.org

Over Labor Day weekend my in-laws also visited. Ed and Tina Miller joined us for a few days of shopping and viewing of the New Hampshire scenery. We visited some craft fairs in Northern New Hampshire and drove through Mount Washington, near Conway, NH. The fall foliage starts soon and Lorenzo and Charlotte are planning on returning to Mount Washington for the view. They also plan to drive to the top of Mount Washington (there’s a road–no 4×4 needed) on this next visit. More photos will follow, but enjoy these from this Labor Day weekend trip:

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Well the Arredondo family visit finally happened.

It wasn’t the entire extended family though…that would easily fill up lots of jumbo jets! Mom Alicia, dad Lorenzo Sr., and brother Rick all came to visit Lorenzo and Charlotte this past week. They arrived on Tuesday morning after flying all the way from El Paso, Texas. It took 3 flights to traveled the distance from the El Paso International Airport to Manchester, New Hampshire’s International Airport.

In the short time they stayed the family rushed to cover all of the sites around the Rochester, NH area including lighthouses and a covered bridge. The group also traveled to Boston, MA for two days and enjoyed sites such as the John F. Kennedy Museum and Library, the New England Aquarium, and the Harvard Museum of Natural History.

The family traveled back Saturday morning and arrived back in El Paso that afternoon. Though the trip lasted 5 days, the trip was worth it. Everyone hadn’t seen each other in quite some time. Will they visit each other again? Absolutely! It’s just a matter of time…

and…

well…

money!

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