Where's Waldo?

or better yet, Search for Stace!

Andrew came to my class on the last day of school and took this silly pic of my babies and I... can you spot me? here's a hint: you don't realize how chic all black is till highschool. I would've posted this earlier but I literally left the country less than 24 hours later!


for those of you who don't know me and those of you who do, can you see me doing anything else?? Teaching brings me sooooooo much joy! I've left my house in tears only to walk into the classroom, hear Mira say, "Ms. Kotei, i'm wearing pink shirt today, we're twins!!" or hear Brandon say, "Ms. Kotei, my mom is proud of my A on my math test, thank-you!"

I can't wait to start my profession! People always say, "Don't rush to grow up!" "The real world is not where it's at!" "Enjoy being a kid!"
Who said anything about not being a kid????

haters wanna hate

so this weekend, didn't quite make it to an official fest but i did stumble upon st. patrick's day event in the middle of downtown hollywood. i have no pictures of that because i was walking home (dreezy's) from church. i was actually upset that i had green on cause i felt like i was patronizing the occassion. one time i pinched my dad cause he wasn't wearing green and he said, "does the irish man wear kente during february?"



damn pops. ole hater.


i did get some pics of us hanging out in a friend's backyard. we grilled (again) and enjoyed company on a lovely sunday afternoon. y'all should really move down south and wear tube tops and sarongs in March.




damn stace. ole hater


P.S. Jameil, why did this boy BUY fruit salad, hold up a freaking piece of cantaloupe and prove that he was right?

such a bitter loss. the only melon i eat is watermelon, sorry i didn't know the correct color! daaaaaaamn!

Marley Fest *updated with links*

so this weekend, Dreezy and I were watching the Saturday morning news show when we heard the International Chocolate Fest was in Miami from 930 till whenever. Bet. it was 8am, we could make it!

NOT!

went back to sleep, I woke up at 10 to watch 'That's So Raven' and he was still knocked the fcuk out. we FINALLY got up around noon, went to Aventura Mall for some sushi and headed to Bayfront for the 14th An Bob Marley Fest. HEADACHE trying to get in! security were some bitches, talking bout Dreezy (who does he think he is in this shot???) should park downtown and carry his keys in. ummmm? that's 98lbs. let him in and once he sets up, he parks somewhere else. nope. we had to wait for Johnny to come with the pass.

waiting in the car


Johnny and the rest of the band show up and its still a headache but whatever. we get in, they perform with Mikey (the drummer's son who EVERYONE thinks is me and Dreezy's) I hang out backstage the whole night, we went to the Hypnotiq VIP section for an hour, got me an Empress shirt designed by a Marley and we don't move our cars till we left. PRIME PARKING! mind you, we got there around 3 and left around 1130

so yeah, the show fest was BOMB!! I've never been and missed out when Erykah and Lauryn used to to come but it was still cool! it was str-8 reggae acts for the first time, with the exception of Mr. Cheeks who is an unofficial marley... he was wack! his last song was sooooooo 'Lights, Camera, Action' from '01!! anyhoo, i had a BLAST taking pics and seeing all the acts UP CLOSE! Gentleman is FINE and fiyah! Capleton is FIYAH as is Sizzla Kalonji! Believe it or not, we didn't stay for the Marleys. Too many of them. later found out they did a long set together but whatever. they all aren't talented. my fave one (stephen) has no stage presence. the most famous one (ziggy) is losing his touch, damien... never really felt him. I like his one song that was on red star sound vol 1 and there is another one who performed on a late show the other day... WACK song! sounds like dave chappelle's parody of dylan on making the band. anyhoo, here are some pics









i don't know how to rotate on here... just facebook.

random day

1. i must commend you bloggers who work, post, and comment here on our lovely blogger.

i do want to apologize for my sporadic posting and nil commenting... i'm still getting into the swing of things and when u have an MM who thinks you spend too much time on the PC -no matter how much time you spend on there- its kinda hard to post, read, and comment. i ALMOST miss the school daze i used to live in. would i go back? in a heartbeat. but, this is the best semester

i'm lying.


2nd semester at HU was bomb FOLLOWED by this semester. this is the most drama free

i'm lying.


MM is drama that is constant as opposed to 'he said/she said' drama of collegiates and professors acting like OTHER professors haven't given us a ton of homework.

homework. such a cute term. i actually liked homework. gave me something to do. i am really a good student! its just that damn attending class thing that gets in the way...

so yeah, kudos to those of you who post and live at the same time. me and X will get out bloggers lives together soon.


2. i got a new phone

yes, this is my 3rd one in... 6 months and no, i'm not a drug dealer. just trying to grow up little by little. dreezy sent me some links for phones and services i should look into. last night, walked into sam's club with $5 for some water, walked out with a pink razor from t-mobile. i would put my number out here but i don't know it. also, toni, i tried to put you in my fave five but i think i have the wrong number! i have a 'toni' and i have a 'k' as faves and none of them are you. not a good look.

3. valentine's day

is everyday for me. i went to a lounge where Dreezy was playing for v-day. fell asleep during the 1st set and almost died from 2nd hand smoke in the 2nd set. when i got back to his place, i had one of the (red) shirts from the GAP on my pillow :-)
mine says ado(red). i was like, "ado red? aDO red? i don't get it" he replied "my little blond, you're adored"

ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww! thanks Dreezy!!! seeing how i got my hair done, roses, and some earrings over the weekend, wednesday was just another day. OMG, I must share pix of my class! if you're on facebook, knock yourself out!

i'm back!

OMG, it took me FOR EV ER to figure out what my user name and password were!! apparently, since i now have gmail, its a whole new log-in process.

i hate beta.

now onto some news!

so, i've been placed for my spring semester.. so excited b/c i have 2nd graders and they are the BEST 7 & 8 year olds ANYONE could ask for!!! OMG, I am SOOOOO enthralled by my class of 17 students and my teacher is BOMB too. No lie, I hope I can be like her when I grow up. So biting her style come August 2007. Not only that but we are soooo similar!

her initials were SK before she got married and now she's SS. Jameil and Toni, y'all may know where I'm going with this.

she drives an Altima, I drive an Altima

she curses like a drunk sailor, and guess what I do????

it was funny when she dropped a narrative chapter book and exclaimed, "Awww! Sons of bitches!! Damn it!!!" (I just say, "BITCHES!") If you know me, when something minor happens, I act like its the end of the world. I dropped my PENCIL in the parking lot and my homegirl Kitty thought I lost some money the way I was acting. I didn't get ketchup with my hashbrowns from Mc Donald's one morning and Jameil found it amusing that I was more pissed my breakfast was dry and not that I had lost my plane ticket home and had to buy a new one. yeah.

so yeah, internship is BOMB AS THE FUCK! too excited about EVERYDAY. what I don't like is having to be there no later than 715am even though school doesn't start till 8am. my teacher, who reminds me of OLD rosie- not the VIEW Rosie- is an EARLY bird. I'm a morning person but not that morning. sheeeeet.

for the writing activity, my directing teacher had the students write about Ms. Kutieboots.

Today a new teacher came to our classroom. Her name is Ms. Kutieboots. She is training to be a teacher. Being the first day, she introduced herself. She is going to teach us. She came from Tellahassee. She is a nice teacher.

When I came back to school we had a student teacher and her name was Kutieboots and I am looking forward for tomorrow and I can't wait for her to teach me.

Dear Ms. Kutieboots
I know that you will be a great teacher. And I wish you were my teacher. thanks for comeing.
Love, D

Kutieboots she is Nice and I think she should take ms. s place She s kind of nice. I love school I think she love school to.

Ms. Kutieboots is a nice and pretty. When she told us about the tests. Sh is a good studen. Sh emust get a lot of A's. When she show us were she lived I was surprissd. I like Ms. Kutieboots she looks like a lot fo fun. I hope she stay intill the end of the year. I like Ms. Kutieboots.

Ms. Kutieboots is relly nice. and her favorite coler is dark pink. And i know that she is in high shcool. and she came from different plases. and she likes dogs and at her house she got two dogs. and she like Bears and she got so much frends. she even has more frends than me at shcool. and at sports she loves to play tenes a lot.

awwwwwwwwww!!! don't worry! i have more writing samples to share but i have to go grade papers! *BEAMING*

P.S. another one of my dreams has come true. i got a thing for musicians right? i want to be a muse, i want to be backstage, i want to be where they are. well, a couple of months back, my last boo told me he wrote a song inspired my me. too thrilled! its called "get it" or has that phrase as the chorus...i forget.
now
dreezy is playing t-bone with him this weekend in Orlando and guess who gets to come along???
*CHEESING*