September 2006 arrived and Roxanne's sophomore college year began. She continued to do very well in everything in that year. She continued to do very well in her college classes and she even got an assistant teaching job at Unique Flowers School, which was Spoonerville's special needs school. It was for her to get work experience when she wasn't attending her college classes and her education professor recommended her to the principal of Unique Flowers School herself because they knew each other and even attended education classes together and also because Roxanne was the best student her education professor ever had (and she was only in her sophomore college year). And throughout the year, while working at the special needs school, Roxanne proved her worth at that school, both to the teachers, the students and all the other staff members and even the parents of the students were very impressed with her work as well. The principal said she was the best teaching assistant the school ever had. She was great with kids, especially those with learning difficulties. She was kind, patient and understanding, but could put her foot down and be firm when she had to and she knew when she had to be.
Roxanne continued to be a great cheerleader. She helped her cheerleading team continue to cheer our college sports teams at Spoonerville College and outside it, win a lot at cheerleader events and awards including the Cheerleader Goddess Awards 2007 and help to become one of the best cheerleading teams – not just in cheerleaders in the college world, but also in the whole wide world.
Also, Roxanne helped some of the new cheerleaders who were struggling or didn't have confidence at all. She encouraged them to never give up and keep going and helped them with their dances when the proper cheer coaches for some reason couldn't get through to them. But the cheer coaches weren't upset that Roxanne helped these new cheerleaders more than they did; in fact, they were very impressed with her abilities to do it and they thought she could be the next cheer coach once they retired. She kept saying that it was me that she learned how to manage to motivate these cheerleaders to become the very best ones they could be. It was last year when she wasn't feeling very confident and felt like giving up after everything she went through her time in San Siesta, but she felt better after I encouraged her to never give up on cheerleading or anything in her life and she told me that was how she learned from me about motivating skills. She even used the same motivating skills to the kids at her school to help them become the students they could be.
As for the college's drama production that college year, Hayden decided to do A Chorus Line. Roxanne earned the role of Bebe Benzenheimer aka Dancer Auditionee No. Nine, while her friends Vicky earned the role of Sheila Bryant aka Dancer Auditionee No. Hundred and Fifty Two, Valeria earned the role of Diana Morales aka Dancer Auditionee No. Two and Kenny earned the role of Larry, the assistant to Zach the director.
I'll never forget the day when I went to see the show when it premiered at the Spoonerville College Theater in February 2007 and I was really impressed with the show. This type of show isn't usually my cup of tea, but Hayden and his cast and crew managed to impress me a lot with it, especially Roxanne with her amazing acting, singing and dancing. It reminded me when I used to see my ex-girlfriend Charlotte do the ballet shows at Spoonerville College before she left for the New York City Ballet. When the first night finished and was a success, I told Roxanne how proud I was of her and she thanked me for coming to see her.
My dad, Sylvia and Hannah came to visit at my house for a few days and one night I took them to see Roxanne in this show and they were impressed with her as much as I was and I enjoyed the show the second time as much as the first time. And she was very happy they came to see her. It really meant a lot to her.
Once again, the show ran for two successful weeks and every night was sold out and it won a lot of awards, including the Best College Theatre Production Award and the Best Director Award in A College Theatre Production for Hayden, which was his second one.
Some things were the same as last year and some things were different. One thing that was different was that, now Roxanne and I started a new relationship, she was living with me in my house and we didn't need to pay for her dorm room. But she did go and visit her best friends there whenever she could.
Roxanne also took extra lessons at Spoonerville College that year. One of them was driver's ed. She felt that she needed to learn so she wouldn't rely on me driving her all the time and also last year after she got cheated on by her ex-boyfriends last year, she had to do a lot of walking to come to me for support. And another reason was so she could go on a girl's trip with Stacey and Lauren every time they invited her, so she took driving lessons. I also helped her a little bit, such as with the theory and used my car as an example when she needed to know the parts of a car and how they worked. Near the end of the college year, she passed driver's ed and earned her driver's licence. While she did driver's ed, I taught her how to ride a bike in the meantime so she could go somewhere when I couldn't drive. She didn't think she could do it at first because she never learned, thanks to the overprotective from her dad, but she became very good at it, thanks to my encouragement, and though she can drive her car now, she still uses her bike either when she can't use her car or for exercises or for a pleasant bike ride, mostly with me.
Roxanne also took swimming lessons at Spoonerville College. She wanted to learn how to swim so she could swim with me and do some water activities with me. She always wanted to learn, but again her overprotective dad forbade it because she didn't want to drown while learning to swim. I helped her with that as well by using my private swimming pool and helping her like learning to float and how to do strokes such as the front crawl, the backstroke, the breaststroke and the butterfly among them. Of course, she still joined the swimming class at the college and she learned how to swim by the professional swimming instructor and, after taking all the lessons she needed to take, she passed. She can swim like a beautiful mermaid now.
For Spring Break 2007, Roxanne and her college mates went to South Padra Island, Texas. I went with her because she wanted me to go with her and I was glad I did. We shared a room at the hotel we all stayed at. We did many things together.
One day, we went on a boat tour to try to see dolphins and we found lots of them. Now that Roxanne could swim, we went on a snorkelling trip and saw many incredible marine life and we all enjoyed it, especially Roxanne as this was her very first snorkelling trip of her entire life.
One day, we went to Turtle Inc. where we learned a lot about turtles and what the organization was doing to help them.
One day, we went to the South Padre Island Birding, Nature Center & Alligator Sanctuary and we had fun exploring it and learning all about the wildlife that they supported and what they were doing to help them.
One day, Roxanne and I had fun at South Padre Island Beach. I went surfing and then I tried to teach Roxanne how to surf, but she wasn't great at it. But when I suggested she tried bodyboarding, she liked it more and we both had fun doing it. For the rest of the day, we just relaxed and sunbathe. Then that night, Roxanne and I visited Gravity Park and had lots of fun going on the Rocket, the Skycoaster, the Adult Go-Karts, the mini golf, the Ferris Wheel and the Trampoline Ride.
One day, Roxanne and I went to South Padre Island Adventure Park. There we had a lot of fun and stuff Roxanne never did, including horseback riding, zip-lining and going on a speed boat so we could go parasailing and banana boating. She really enjoyed doing those activities as much as I did.
One day, which was the hottest day of the Spring Break trip, Roxanne and I went to Beach Waterpark and cooled down by having fun on the slides and the rides and everything this amazing water park had to offer.
Roxanne also managed to spend time with her best friends, sometimes with me and sometimes without me. For example, when Roxanne and her friends wanted to go shopping, I let her spend time with them and I headed back to the hotel to hit the gym and the swimming pool. It was an awesome spring break trip for me and Roxanne.
As for the rest of the year, outside the college, our relationship continued to be great. Even though we were starting from scratch, it felt like we were still in the one we were back in Spoonerville High School. And we had more sex with each other, something both of us always wanted to do back in high school but couldn't because she had to move to Texas with her dad before we even had a chance.
And Roxanne and I continued to do many other things together. We, along with Roxanne's best friends, did our Thanksgiving service at Spoonerville College for the poor and homeless for Thanksgiving 2006. And we enjoyed celebrating Christmas 2006 and New Year's Day 2007 in Big Sky with my family. And when Roxanne completed her sophomore college year, my reward gift to her was her very first car. It was a preowned blue car, but she didn't want an expensive flashy sports car and she was very grateful for it. So, Roxanne's freshman college year was great, but her sophomore college year was better.