¡Las vacaciones!

¡Lo hicimos! We made it through the school year. ¡Gracias a todos for making my first year at Lakeview so great. ¡Felicidades a los estudiantes del 8 quienes se graduaron anoche, buena suerte en la escuela secundaria! I look forward to seeing los estudiantes del 7 in the fall after a well-deserved descanso.

¿Qué van a hacer este verano? Señorita Payne is going to be working pretty hard this summer. I'll be in Santa Barbara for seis semanas working on my masters degree at the University of California at Santa Barbara. When I get there, I have to sign a paper that says I'll only speak Spanish the whole time I'm there! ¡Ay ay ay! When we get back in the fall, we'll compare to see who read more books this summer-see if you can read enough to beat me! Here are some pictures of UCSB and some of mis amigos y profesores that I'll be spending time with this summer.

This is a picture of the campus at UCSB

Here's Señorita Payne with her compañeros de clase y some of her profesores

Here's Señorita Payne in a Spanish performance. What word am I holding up?

(Think about how we pronounce 'x' in Spanish...)

Here's Señorita Payne with Dra. Arias-Alvarez (una de mis profesores favoritas)

I hope you all have a wonderful and safe summer. It will be time to head back to school before we know it. ¡Hasta pronto!