James and Kristin Whitt’s Corner

Praxis and East Fork Race

Just a quick update…
I am working on certification so that I can teach language arts and science as well as math and social studies. One of the things I have to do is pass a test for each subject. In the past few months, I took the language arts and science Praxis tests and I passed both!! So now all I have to do is finish a few classes I’m already signed up for and apply for my license.

I have also started running again (I used to run a lot in high school). Today I ran in the East Fork Backpack Race with a friend. It was a 4.8 mile trail race through the woods at East Fork. James and Gavin went with Christie and I. The race started off well, but almost half way in Christie and I (and another runner) took a wrong turn. There was no race official there to tell us where to go. We all ended up running another mile to mile and a half on the wrong trail until a biker on the trail saw us and told us! Long story short, we ended up running around 8 miles during this 4.8 mile race and we ended up last! It was tough but it was a major accomplishment for me.

Waterproof Digital Camera

We picked up a digital camera off of eBay last week.  We wanted to have a camera that we could take jet skiing with us.  Always seemed to be a time when we wanted to stop and take a picture, but didn’t want to risk dropping our digital camera in the water.  It’s a 5.0 megapixel off brand camera.  We took it out to the Ohio River with us this past Sunday and we took some pictures.  The gallery is located here.