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Kindergarten - Mrs. Ellis
First Grade - Mrs. Tewes
Second Grade
Third Grade - Mrs. Jones
Fourth Grade - Mrs. Stevenson

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I lived here from the day I was born until I was eight.

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I lived here while student teaching and after graduating from college. I helped out on the ranch and worked at Buttrey's.
June to December of 1985
March 1988 to June 1988 and then September 1988 to June 1989

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We lived here from the late fall of 1970 until spring of 1972.

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We lived here for a few months in 1970. I remember living in a small two bedroom trailer. We lived here during Halloween. Our bus driver, Mr. Little, ran over our German shepherd puppy, Oly.

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I think this is the house we lived in in Bozeman. We only lived here for eleven days, but I believe this was the house. I know it was on 17th Ave.

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I attended this school for nine days in fourth fifth grade. I only know it was fifth grade because my sister was in junior high.

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I lived here with four roommates while in college the second time, from January 1986 to June 1987.

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I'm not sure if this is the exact spot, but I lived in a duplex with Doak and Carol in the summer of 1987 until March of 1988.

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I lived here, Room 630 my freshman year, Room 616 for the next 2.7 years, then Room 903 for my final two quarters.

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Reid Hall houses the offices of the Modern Language Department. I earned my first degree in Modern Language: German (B.A.)

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I earned my teaching degree at MSU also. The Education Department is also in Reid Hall.

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I lived here in sixth grade from
August to February. In the 1990s my old roommate Doak lived here with his family!

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We built this house just before my sophomore year. I lived here my sophomore and senior years of high school.

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We lived in a trailer about here when I was a junior. I had so much fun. In the summer we'd stay up until 4 in the morning just hanging out.

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We lived here for a few months after leaving Bozeman.

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I remember this school (It's not a school anymore though.) We were't allowed to play on the grass. I attended this school in the last of fourth grade and all of fifth grade.

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I lived here in fifth grade.

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At the end of fifth grade we bought a house. I started a small garden on the south side of the house. We moved before I saw my watermelons grow from the blossoms.

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After leaving Clyde Park, we couldn't afford the apartment on 11th Ave. so we moved here into subsidized housing. We lived here about a year. During the summer the city had a great program for poor kids.

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After my mom married for the third time, we bought this house. I had a blast here with my step-brother Frank. We lived here until my sophomore year.

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It's now called Helena Middle School. I was enrolled here in seventh grade.

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Home of the Bengals. I graduated here after attending for three years.

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We lived here after leaving Clyde Park. I came home for lunch every day. Mrs. Paige was my teacher. She would have us do earthquake drills. Mr. Howe was my science teacher. He was mean.

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I went here in sixth grade.

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This school went from kindergarten to ninth grade. I attended in eighth and ninth grades. In ninth grade I worked in the office for one period. The fire chief called the office one day and asked the school to set off the alarm in the ninth grade wing. I was chosen to pull the alarm. The office staff hadn't had time to tell the principal, so he was searching for the disruptive student. I was a bit scared but tried to admit doing it. No one would believe me.

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I had to spend a week of my student teaching experience in the fifth grade. It was fun going back to the school I first attended as a child. I also subbed in this building my first year as a teacher.

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Not only did I complete my student teaching here, I also started my substitute teaching here.

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I didn't sub here often, but I do remember subbing for the band and choir classes. Wow, those were huge classes.

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I had my first teaching job here. I taught English and German from 1989 to 1993

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During my first year in Geyser, Wade found a job there. We moved into this house on the ranch.

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I rented this house when I was hired in Geyser. Wade and I got married just after that. We spent our wedding night here. (Oh, this is no the house; it was just a double-wide trailer when I lived here.)

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I subbed here a couple of times.

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I subbed here some too.

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In 1992 I separated from Wade for a few months. Mary and I arrived here to try to get my life back on track.

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After graduating college in 1985, I needed to live somewhere. I stayed with my sister Becky for a couple of months.

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In September and October of 1993, Mary and I lived here for a couple of months. We shared the apartment with a guy named Doug. We didn't see him much, but shared the space because we needed somewhere to live. We had a mutual friend, so that's how we found the place.

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I taught here from 1996 to 2004.

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We bought this trailer in February 2001. Our first home purchase. We lived in it from April of 2001 until August 2004. Mary wrecked her motor cycle across the street in the gravel of the highway department.

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I know there's no trailer here now, but at one time, there was. It's moved a couple blocks north now.

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We lived in a rental when we first moved to Roy after leaving Geyser in 1993. We only lived here for two months.

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We lived on this ranch from October of 1993 until October of 2000, exactly seven years.

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We bought this house in Fairview in August of 2004. It's a good thing we did. It was scheduled for a sheriff's sale in September.

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I started teaching here in August of 2004. I teach English and have taught German. I am also the technology coordinator. Through the EMTEC grant I have been trained as a Master Teacher teaching the Intel courses.

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After graduating in 1988, I decided to go live with my dad in Sacramento. I only lasted three months. The temperature was in the 100s most of July and August. I arrived on Father's Day and left right after Dad's birthday.

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My senior year I enrolled at the UofM for a study abroad program. For eleven weeks I lived in Vienna at the Kafka home at 17 Dreimarksteingasse in Vienna.

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My study abroad program in 1984 was held in a room in one of these buildings. I'm not exactly sure where anymore, but it was in this neighborhood.

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Through the UofM and the Göthe Institute a class is held each August at Yellow Bay.

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In August 1992 I attended a four day journalism course here. We had a team of only teachers. We called ourselves the Dream Team. We had fun building our mock yearbook. We named it "Basically Black and White" in honor of having no color in it and of our guest speaker who used the word basically at least 200 times during his keynote.

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Although I've never been to this state, I did earn my master's degree through Lesley. We met one weekend a month at Billings West High School in Billings, MT. It was an experience I'll cherish for the rest of my life.
2001-2004

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I earned 18 quarter credits through the UofM without having to be on campus. 15 of those were during the Study Abroad program in Vienna, Austria. The other 3 were through a German Immersion workshop at Yellow Bay on Flathead Lake.

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So, in 2004 I applied to teach a distance learning course. It was not the most successful experience. I don't know where it went wrong, but I think not requiring the students to have a vested interest may have had something to do with it.

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My first distance learning course was taken through Western. I took a course to learn about bulletin board systems. Oh, that seems like a lifetime ago. It was probably 1990 or 1991.

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Integrating Technology into the Foreign Language Classroom: http://www.geocities.com/jenmdse/work/pedagog.html

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814 and 822 6th Street North

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I spent some time living here with Dad. I worked for him at the Miner's Club Bar. We lived behind the bar in a trailer. The trailer burned up just before Christmas that year.

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I lived here with Dad after my junior year of college.

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My Dad lived here while I was growing up. We spent a couple summers here.

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When Wade and I first lived together, it was here, on Jim Murphy's ranch-- June 1989 to August 1989.

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2 college credits X 2 for attending the AFDC conference in 2008 and 2009.