New Year's Eve. . .PARTY!
Yes, its New Year's Eve and I won't be partying downtown at the pub crawl or bar hop whatever they call that event. I will hopefully be going to be my friend's house tonight for New Year's that is if she calls. . .I might have to call her. I had lunch with her one day this week and she said she bought a bottle of good champagne and then asked if I had plans for New Years. I was like "I am there!" I'll be spending the night there tonight, so no one worry I don't drive.
Wow! Its 2006 pretty much. . .it seems so futuristic. I think it will sound really futurisitic when we start saying 20a11 or 2020. Anyway, 2005 has been a pretty good year for me. I had an awesome junior year of college, went to Guatemala, and started my senior year getting ready to graduate! I am sure I could be more deep and philosophical about the year 2005. . .but I am not sure if I really want to. I have grown and changed a lot I think this last year on many levels. Yeah, I don't know but I think if you know me and we talk, or you got my e-mails from Guatemala, and you read my blog you know this.
I saw the movie Walk The Line last night with my parents. Its the movie about Johnny Cash. . .and let me tell you I knew nada about the man until last night. I only knew one song to the one where its like Burn Burn Burn. . .you know that he didn't even write. June Carter wrote that who became his wife later on. Anyway, I have a greater appreciation for the man and the music. But in general I think I usually become more appreciative of a person after I know their story.
Okay thats about it for now. . .sorry this one was a bit boring probably.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Saturday, December 31, 2005
Friday, December 23, 2005
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Home for the Holidays!
I arrived home yesterday afternoon. . .but on my way home I stopped in my good friend's hometown at the coffee shop she works at that her family owns. (She is the one that goes to school in Dallas.) I ate lunch there and had a vanilla latte and left after about 50 minutes. We talked, I gave her a Christmas gift, etc. It was nice. . . and we agreed to hang out today.
I got home and saw my mom and brother. . .the new remodeled house is pretty much done finally! It has a very metropolitan look, it makes me think of an apartment in New York City pretty much! Its pretty modern, contemporary. . .expensive looking. But my parents like it this is what they wanted, so I am happy with that. I went to bed early last night. . .actually last night I had a minor migraine or something because my head hurt and I couldn't sleep. Then I was wide awake this morning at like 6 freezing in my bed with flannel sheets and a think comforter and a long sleeve t-shirt on. I had to put my pajama pants on and get another bedspread for the bed, plus a blanket and I was still cold! I was like mom we have to have more heat in this house at night. . .because if we don't do it now my grandparents are going to freeze to death when they come down from another city on Christmas day!
We also went to the hospital last night to visit my grandma, the one who I just recently found out has cancer. Well, the hospital is huge now here and they are still adding on, not to mention the other hospital in town is almost caught up in size. We walked around for like 15 minutes till we found an information area to find out the room. We had to walk back to the other end practically to get on the elevator and then we got up to the floor and asked the nurse what room. She was like you just missed her I discharged her five minutes ago. . . thats good but it just means we wasted our time doing that. But I guess she is doing better, but will have to start cheamo soon.
So, this morning I went to the mall to meet my good friend that I saw the day before in her hometown. She finished her Christmas shopping, and she helped me pick out scarfs for my grandmas. We had a good time as always, the second time I have gone to the mall in a row with her. Then we went to lunch at Panera and had an interesting conversation. We went to Walgreens, and then to see Pride and Prejudice finally. I thought it was pretty good and it seemed to follow the book solidly for the most part. I really liked the book and the story, so it was good even if I was one of two men in the theater. Then we made it to another friend's house from youth group in high school and hung out there with her parents for a bit before she came home from work. We talked for a while and hung out before they went to meet some other people for dinner. I went home since my dad came in tonight and we met him for dinner. My friend might, might being the keyword, come up to Lawrence with me to see some people the day after Christmas for a day or so. If not we are still defanetely going to hang out before I have to start practicum again. Once again though we are just really good friends and have been since at least my junior year of high school if not before that. Yes, we have some history I guess you could say but we are so past that. I mean we are open and talk about the people we like or our relationships etc. I wouldn't want to try to complicate or mess up the friendship at all by something stupid!
I am going to meet another good friend from high school and who ever else shows up for coffee tomorrow morning.
Its so nice to be home for a while.
Grade watch:
SW 610 Practice Seminar I A- , I can't believe I got the
SW 620 Social Policy A
SW 611 Case Management - don't know yet, but should be an A
Practicum - Satisfactory
That stupid A- is the only thing I think that has stopped me from having a 4.0, oh well its still not bad.
I arrived home yesterday afternoon. . .but on my way home I stopped in my good friend's hometown at the coffee shop she works at that her family owns. (She is the one that goes to school in Dallas.) I ate lunch there and had a vanilla latte and left after about 50 minutes. We talked, I gave her a Christmas gift, etc. It was nice. . . and we agreed to hang out today.
I got home and saw my mom and brother. . .the new remodeled house is pretty much done finally! It has a very metropolitan look, it makes me think of an apartment in New York City pretty much! Its pretty modern, contemporary. . .expensive looking. But my parents like it this is what they wanted, so I am happy with that. I went to bed early last night. . .actually last night I had a minor migraine or something because my head hurt and I couldn't sleep. Then I was wide awake this morning at like 6 freezing in my bed with flannel sheets and a think comforter and a long sleeve t-shirt on. I had to put my pajama pants on and get another bedspread for the bed, plus a blanket and I was still cold! I was like mom we have to have more heat in this house at night. . .because if we don't do it now my grandparents are going to freeze to death when they come down from another city on Christmas day!
We also went to the hospital last night to visit my grandma, the one who I just recently found out has cancer. Well, the hospital is huge now here and they are still adding on, not to mention the other hospital in town is almost caught up in size. We walked around for like 15 minutes till we found an information area to find out the room. We had to walk back to the other end practically to get on the elevator and then we got up to the floor and asked the nurse what room. She was like you just missed her I discharged her five minutes ago. . . thats good but it just means we wasted our time doing that. But I guess she is doing better, but will have to start cheamo soon.
So, this morning I went to the mall to meet my good friend that I saw the day before in her hometown. She finished her Christmas shopping, and she helped me pick out scarfs for my grandmas. We had a good time as always, the second time I have gone to the mall in a row with her. Then we went to lunch at Panera and had an interesting conversation. We went to Walgreens, and then to see Pride and Prejudice finally. I thought it was pretty good and it seemed to follow the book solidly for the most part. I really liked the book and the story, so it was good even if I was one of two men in the theater. Then we made it to another friend's house from youth group in high school and hung out there with her parents for a bit before she came home from work. We talked for a while and hung out before they went to meet some other people for dinner. I went home since my dad came in tonight and we met him for dinner. My friend might, might being the keyword, come up to Lawrence with me to see some people the day after Christmas for a day or so. If not we are still defanetely going to hang out before I have to start practicum again. Once again though we are just really good friends and have been since at least my junior year of high school if not before that. Yes, we have some history I guess you could say but we are so past that. I mean we are open and talk about the people we like or our relationships etc. I wouldn't want to try to complicate or mess up the friendship at all by something stupid!
I am going to meet another good friend from high school and who ever else shows up for coffee tomorrow morning.
Its so nice to be home for a while.
Grade watch:
SW 610 Practice Seminar I A- , I can't believe I got the
SW 620 Social Policy A
SW 611 Case Management - don't know yet, but should be an A
Practicum - Satisfactory
That stupid A- is the only thing I think that has stopped me from having a 4.0, oh well its still not bad.
Tuesday, December 20, 2005
You know it hasn't been your best day when. . .
at the toll booth on my way back into town from my practicum the lady as I am driving away after I give her the money goes, "Sorry!" in a sarcastic way. I myself really like to have my money way and all of that kind of stuff when I get to the booth and then just be on my way. Well, today I had to wait just a little bit and you know I want to go. . .so I get to the booth and give her the ticket and she says the price. I give her the money and then start to drive off. . . well as I am about to do this the lady goes, "Sorry" like I am such a snob rude person for not waitng and talking or something. Okay, I admit at times I can give off the impression that I am a snob and my time is precious and blah blah blah, but come on! What a small thing that made the day that much better.
So at my internship today at the elementary school we finished group Christmas parties. Pretty much the Christmas parties include the kids coming in and we give them there gift bags and they get the goodies to eat too. Okay, well it wasn't that bad I talked to the kids about Christmas and stuff and got some pretty interesting discussion. I let them fly their planes or gliders. . .I guess it was kind of fun. But besides groups it was one of those days where I felt totally unproductive. I sat and ate a lot of junk, my new hobby at the internship is to eat a lot. I don't know if its the healthiest but I really haven't gained any weight I don't think. I still feel guilty sometimes. . . because it could potentially be starting unhealthy lifestyle choices. Also, the outside of my body might look okay and fairly skinny but what about my arterties inside my body or my cholestrol level?
Anyway, I got home today and have tried to relax somewhat. I found myself watching Ophrah today for the second day in a row with Jaime Foxx. That was kind of interesting. . . I really don't agree with a lot of Ophrah's personal philosophies, but think she does help a lot of people and uses her wealth in good ways. IN additon, she is like the same age of my mom which is weird for me to say, but she isn't bad to look at either. I personally find her to be an attractive woman.
I ended up taking a hot shower after that, which is always great! It makes me relax and feel less stressed usually like afterwards I want to sleep. I love taking pretty hot showers, you know hot enough to make the mirror fog over. Anyway, just my personal stress reliever that works most of the time. . . and no one read that in a twisted way!
So at my internship today at the elementary school we finished group Christmas parties. Pretty much the Christmas parties include the kids coming in and we give them there gift bags and they get the goodies to eat too. Okay, well it wasn't that bad I talked to the kids about Christmas and stuff and got some pretty interesting discussion. I let them fly their planes or gliders. . .I guess it was kind of fun. But besides groups it was one of those days where I felt totally unproductive. I sat and ate a lot of junk, my new hobby at the internship is to eat a lot. I don't know if its the healthiest but I really haven't gained any weight I don't think. I still feel guilty sometimes. . . because it could potentially be starting unhealthy lifestyle choices. Also, the outside of my body might look okay and fairly skinny but what about my arterties inside my body or my cholestrol level?
Anyway, I got home today and have tried to relax somewhat. I found myself watching Ophrah today for the second day in a row with Jaime Foxx. That was kind of interesting. . . I really don't agree with a lot of Ophrah's personal philosophies, but think she does help a lot of people and uses her wealth in good ways. IN additon, she is like the same age of my mom which is weird for me to say, but she isn't bad to look at either. I personally find her to be an attractive woman.
I ended up taking a hot shower after that, which is always great! It makes me relax and feel less stressed usually like afterwards I want to sleep. I love taking pretty hot showers, you know hot enough to make the mirror fog over. Anyway, just my personal stress reliever that works most of the time. . . and no one read that in a twisted way!
Saturday, December 17, 2005
My Reality
Okay, so today its snowing again here. . . and we are supposed to have 3-5 inches of the white stuff by tomorrow. Its pretty I guess, but I am still not a fan of winter and I am ready to move to the coast somewhere in South America. But today I managed to stay at home and have a lovely time.
I only have one day of my practicum left on Tuesday and then I am done for the semester. I think I managed to get straight A's this semester. I got a 19.8 out of 20 on my Comparative Policy/Program Framework paper which I thought was kind of hard. I felt pretty good about that. Last night I went to a coffee shop with one of my friends in this quiet college town since a lot of students moved out since yesterday was the last day of finals. We sat there and I had a nice vanilla latte and read a book for about an hour or so. I am starting to read The Fountainhead for like the umpeith time since my senior year of high school. I have vowed to read it to the end this time though, it really is an interesting read I guess. I don't know if its Ayn Rand's philosophy, writing, or her characters that give me the eerie creepy feeling the most. I like some of the points, but then at other times I am like wow. . . some viewpoints we hav here.
Okay back to today. . .I woke-up and watched the regular Saturday morning shows like I usually do when I can like a ten year old boy. I watch Thats so Raven, The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, and Phil of the Future. Phil of the Future is defantely my favorite because didn't every guy want to be that cool? Okay then I read some of my book and even took the dog Bear out for a walk in the snow. I watched the movie House of Flying Daggers that one of my friend's from China gave me for Christmas. I think its a beautiful movie and pretty cool!
Then I got to cook the chicken I had marinating in the refegirator from yesterday. Pollo Rio Negro, it was chicken breast marinating in some white wine, carrots, onion, rosemary, bay leaf, and salt and pepper of course on the chicken. Sound delicious doesn't it, you should've smelled it while it was in the oven. Then I made a sauce with lemon juice, water, sugar, and grated apple to put on top and to cook on top of the chicken to make it brown. Wow! I am going to have to make this more often and I ate it with the chicken in a bowl and all the juice like a soup or something. And then had a glass of the same white wine I used to marinate it with for my drink. Okay I am not a vulgar person or anything, but the perfect romantic meal includes something like I cooked tonight. For example, the food was good but it made me so hot that I took off my shirt to eat it. What can I say if you are with that special person. . . and you are looking for a night of passion then cook something tasty and warm that will taste good and make people want to take clothes off go for it! Who needs afrodisiacs? Okay, enough about that little thing about food, but food has the potential to hold a lot of power in positive and negative ways. I like to think about wonderful food and the taste and everything it can do.
Wow! I just realized what a change this is from my last post about how food is evil and I don't want to get fat. . . that was a little bit exaggerated if you know me because I am really skinny. I ran Friday morning though and let me tell you that was a reality check. I am so far out of shape. . . I had to stop and walk up half of a hill on one of the streets. It wasn't even really that long of a run in the first place.
So, I talked to my dad today. My grandma (his mom) is in the hospital they went in and had suregery on her and looked inside behind her stomach. They are pretty sure she has cancer but thinks its isolated or at least hope it hasn't spread to the bones. If it has the prognosis isn't that great for her, but she'll most likely start radiation on Monday. I do not know really what to think she is a great Christian lady, but at the same time has never been that close to us. She never calls and sometimes doesn't act like she wants to see us. My mom has the stomach flue and has been sick for like a week now. I am not sure if the kitchen is done yet in the house yet, and I am pretty sure no one is done with Christmas shopping, inclding me. My mom's parents are going to come down on Christmas day I guess and stay maybe until New Years. How wacky is my family and my extended family getting to be at times.
Okay thats about it all I am going to write now. . . I am going to watch The Sound of Music tonight on TV. I really like that movie but haven't seen it in a long time.
I only have one day of my practicum left on Tuesday and then I am done for the semester. I think I managed to get straight A's this semester. I got a 19.8 out of 20 on my Comparative Policy/Program Framework paper which I thought was kind of hard. I felt pretty good about that. Last night I went to a coffee shop with one of my friends in this quiet college town since a lot of students moved out since yesterday was the last day of finals. We sat there and I had a nice vanilla latte and read a book for about an hour or so. I am starting to read The Fountainhead for like the umpeith time since my senior year of high school. I have vowed to read it to the end this time though, it really is an interesting read I guess. I don't know if its Ayn Rand's philosophy, writing, or her characters that give me the eerie creepy feeling the most. I like some of the points, but then at other times I am like wow. . . some viewpoints we hav here.
Okay back to today. . .I woke-up and watched the regular Saturday morning shows like I usually do when I can like a ten year old boy. I watch Thats so Raven, The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, and Phil of the Future. Phil of the Future is defantely my favorite because didn't every guy want to be that cool? Okay then I read some of my book and even took the dog Bear out for a walk in the snow. I watched the movie House of Flying Daggers that one of my friend's from China gave me for Christmas. I think its a beautiful movie and pretty cool!
Then I got to cook the chicken I had marinating in the refegirator from yesterday. Pollo Rio Negro, it was chicken breast marinating in some white wine, carrots, onion, rosemary, bay leaf, and salt and pepper of course on the chicken. Sound delicious doesn't it, you should've smelled it while it was in the oven. Then I made a sauce with lemon juice, water, sugar, and grated apple to put on top and to cook on top of the chicken to make it brown. Wow! I am going to have to make this more often and I ate it with the chicken in a bowl and all the juice like a soup or something. And then had a glass of the same white wine I used to marinate it with for my drink. Okay I am not a vulgar person or anything, but the perfect romantic meal includes something like I cooked tonight. For example, the food was good but it made me so hot that I took off my shirt to eat it. What can I say if you are with that special person. . . and you are looking for a night of passion then cook something tasty and warm that will taste good and make people want to take clothes off go for it! Who needs afrodisiacs? Okay, enough about that little thing about food, but food has the potential to hold a lot of power in positive and negative ways. I like to think about wonderful food and the taste and everything it can do.
Wow! I just realized what a change this is from my last post about how food is evil and I don't want to get fat. . . that was a little bit exaggerated if you know me because I am really skinny. I ran Friday morning though and let me tell you that was a reality check. I am so far out of shape. . . I had to stop and walk up half of a hill on one of the streets. It wasn't even really that long of a run in the first place.
So, I talked to my dad today. My grandma (his mom) is in the hospital they went in and had suregery on her and looked inside behind her stomach. They are pretty sure she has cancer but thinks its isolated or at least hope it hasn't spread to the bones. If it has the prognosis isn't that great for her, but she'll most likely start radiation on Monday. I do not know really what to think she is a great Christian lady, but at the same time has never been that close to us. She never calls and sometimes doesn't act like she wants to see us. My mom has the stomach flue and has been sick for like a week now. I am not sure if the kitchen is done yet in the house yet, and I am pretty sure no one is done with Christmas shopping, inclding me. My mom's parents are going to come down on Christmas day I guess and stay maybe until New Years. How wacky is my family and my extended family getting to be at times.
Okay thats about it all I am going to write now. . . I am going to watch The Sound of Music tonight on TV. I really like that movie but haven't seen it in a long time.
Monday, December 12, 2005
Blogging instead of finishing my paper.
Yeah, I have a paper due on Wednesday at noon that I am almost done with, but am blogging instead of finishing it! Actually this paper has been a big bad b***h in my life lately. . . its the last one of the semester and I am just done with it. Its worth 30% of my grade so I kind of have to finish the thing. I am on the last section too, but the thing is I feel like I have followed the outline given, but not really. Its about a client of mine and the practice model I am using backed up with research (that section is questionable), an ethical issue that could possibly arise from the situation with research, and differences between me and the client with research backing this up, and then finally application to the function of the agency and changes I would like to make. 10-12 pages that I keep putting off as long as possible. . . !!!
By the way I went to the school today with my other social work student collegue. We did some stuff like worked on documentation our group plans and stuff for next year. We got stuff for the group Christmas parties this week and next. . . oh how fun that will be. Then we started brainstorming ideas for groups next semester. . . but we have time to work on it. Like the three weeks I will be there before classes start and we can meet on a day that we are both off and do it over coffee. My field instructor actually seems to be working a lot more lately and being more motivated about her job, this is kind of exciting! The other student and I still have our reserves about if this is going to carry through til May or not. We decided that we almost need to be like God and forget the past and forgive her for all the injustices she has caused us and hope this continues.
Also, today I actually thought about my future after graduation in a realistic way and also without any real anxiety problems arising. I was talking to my field instructor about this and how I want to work with immigrants and stuff like that where I can use my Spanish. She knows my dad is working in Northwest Arkansas right now an area that is booming, and her brother is a doctor there. Its supposed to be the next Dallas/Fort Worth area in the future from what everyone is saying, it is growing fast! Walmart is there as many of you know and they recently have demanded that all the companies that they do business with or buy products from need to be close to them. This means that a lot of companies are moving offices and headquarters and stuff like that and with it comes the people and money and everything else. Plus Tyson Chicken is in the area and they hire mass quantities of migrant workers. My dad has a lot of connections too so I e-mailed him to see what he would say about working down there. He e-mailed me back and was like I could so get you in at Walmart or Tyson. I was like okay, but I really don't want to have a job because my rich daddy got it for me. So he is going to get some information for me and places that I could possibly send my resume too. This is me really being realistic and thinking about what I can do and what I might be doing and where I might want to go. This would defenately be a safe bet probably. . . maybe I need to be close to my family with money for a while, while I adjust to making off of $25,000 - 30,000 a year for the rest of my life at least until I get married if I do. . .?
Right now it has been cold up here and Kansas lately. . . last week we got all that snow as you know. I had a snow day which was good because I finished my policy paper then. But lately I have been eating a lot and drinking lots of coffee. Like the caffeine addiction is bad right now I feel like, but the eating thing is good. . . I guess. Except I think I am gaining weight no one else has seemed to notice or said anything without me bringing it up in a joke or something. But the worst thing is besides taking Bear, the dog, out and her making me run I haven't had time or wanted to go out and run since its so cold. I feel like my stomach or my gut is out there more and I don't like the idea of having a stomach. I have never equated gaining weight as a good thing. . . . I mean a part of me has always known I am really skinny and I should gain weight, but I almost like being that skinny. Okay, before some of you like start to worry about me and think I am going to start doing unhealthy things like some of you know I have done in the past, don't worry! I just don't want to wake-up one morning when I am 30 and I am fat and its because I let it all go down hill my senior year of college, thats all I am saying. I am going to try to start running more I think.
I think that is it for me now. . . I'll try to work on my paper some more I guess and then off to bed because I have to go to internship tomorrow too! 3 days this week!
Yeah, I have a paper due on Wednesday at noon that I am almost done with, but am blogging instead of finishing it! Actually this paper has been a big bad b***h in my life lately. . . its the last one of the semester and I am just done with it. Its worth 30% of my grade so I kind of have to finish the thing. I am on the last section too, but the thing is I feel like I have followed the outline given, but not really. Its about a client of mine and the practice model I am using backed up with research (that section is questionable), an ethical issue that could possibly arise from the situation with research, and differences between me and the client with research backing this up, and then finally application to the function of the agency and changes I would like to make. 10-12 pages that I keep putting off as long as possible. . . !!!
By the way I went to the school today with my other social work student collegue. We did some stuff like worked on documentation our group plans and stuff for next year. We got stuff for the group Christmas parties this week and next. . . oh how fun that will be. Then we started brainstorming ideas for groups next semester. . . but we have time to work on it. Like the three weeks I will be there before classes start and we can meet on a day that we are both off and do it over coffee. My field instructor actually seems to be working a lot more lately and being more motivated about her job, this is kind of exciting! The other student and I still have our reserves about if this is going to carry through til May or not. We decided that we almost need to be like God and forget the past and forgive her for all the injustices she has caused us and hope this continues.
Also, today I actually thought about my future after graduation in a realistic way and also without any real anxiety problems arising. I was talking to my field instructor about this and how I want to work with immigrants and stuff like that where I can use my Spanish. She knows my dad is working in Northwest Arkansas right now an area that is booming, and her brother is a doctor there. Its supposed to be the next Dallas/Fort Worth area in the future from what everyone is saying, it is growing fast! Walmart is there as many of you know and they recently have demanded that all the companies that they do business with or buy products from need to be close to them. This means that a lot of companies are moving offices and headquarters and stuff like that and with it comes the people and money and everything else. Plus Tyson Chicken is in the area and they hire mass quantities of migrant workers. My dad has a lot of connections too so I e-mailed him to see what he would say about working down there. He e-mailed me back and was like I could so get you in at Walmart or Tyson. I was like okay, but I really don't want to have a job because my rich daddy got it for me. So he is going to get some information for me and places that I could possibly send my resume too. This is me really being realistic and thinking about what I can do and what I might be doing and where I might want to go. This would defenately be a safe bet probably. . . maybe I need to be close to my family with money for a while, while I adjust to making off of $25,000 - 30,000 a year for the rest of my life at least until I get married if I do. . .?
Right now it has been cold up here and Kansas lately. . . last week we got all that snow as you know. I had a snow day which was good because I finished my policy paper then. But lately I have been eating a lot and drinking lots of coffee. Like the caffeine addiction is bad right now I feel like, but the eating thing is good. . . I guess. Except I think I am gaining weight no one else has seemed to notice or said anything without me bringing it up in a joke or something. But the worst thing is besides taking Bear, the dog, out and her making me run I haven't had time or wanted to go out and run since its so cold. I feel like my stomach or my gut is out there more and I don't like the idea of having a stomach. I have never equated gaining weight as a good thing. . . . I mean a part of me has always known I am really skinny and I should gain weight, but I almost like being that skinny. Okay, before some of you like start to worry about me and think I am going to start doing unhealthy things like some of you know I have done in the past, don't worry! I just don't want to wake-up one morning when I am 30 and I am fat and its because I let it all go down hill my senior year of college, thats all I am saying. I am going to try to start running more I think.
I think that is it for me now. . . I'll try to work on my paper some more I guess and then off to bed because I have to go to internship tomorrow too! 3 days this week!
Wednesday, December 07, 2005
Snow and the End of a Semester
Okay, so today I woke-up at about 6:45 and it was already snowing and there was snow on the roads an all that stuff. And to top it all off its been like 9, 10, 11 degrees outside for the past two or three days and is supposed to continue for at least another day or two. I think the snow would be more bearable if it wasn't so cold! Needless, to say I had to get up and drive to class this morning and the weather event.
Classes went okay today. . . .the last day for this semester. One more semester left, I don't know what to say or think? My practice class we wrapped up a discussion on family dynamics when one member has a substance abuse problem. We also passed around a box with different items in it and picked one out as a symbol to talk about and how it relates to our lives. I picked out something that looked the nicest and maybe the most expensive. I talked about how money seems to be very important in my family and its value. Then in the end she passed out an acorn seed to each of us and we talked aobut the possible meanings of that with one semester left. The rest of the day went okay, my policy teacher brought food and then in my last class I gave a small and easy presentation about one of the papers I wrote. So, I am pretty much done for this semester I have my Comparative Policy/Program Analysis Paper due Sunday via e-mail. A paper that has a lot of critical thinking involved on something that is already critical thinking. Lastly, I have an application paper due for my practice class due by Monday that isn't small. Great fun as always and learning a lot!
By the way note from the author I will not be going to my practicum tomorrow due to the weather and I am tired ~ haha! Actually I think its going to be a snow day tomorrow anyway. I'll sleep in and work on papers some and do other fun things here at home, looking forward to the free day!
Thats about it for now. . . I guess I just thought I would update the blog and tell you all whats going on.
Classes went okay today. . . .the last day for this semester. One more semester left, I don't know what to say or think? My practice class we wrapped up a discussion on family dynamics when one member has a substance abuse problem. We also passed around a box with different items in it and picked one out as a symbol to talk about and how it relates to our lives. I picked out something that looked the nicest and maybe the most expensive. I talked about how money seems to be very important in my family and its value. Then in the end she passed out an acorn seed to each of us and we talked aobut the possible meanings of that with one semester left. The rest of the day went okay, my policy teacher brought food and then in my last class I gave a small and easy presentation about one of the papers I wrote. So, I am pretty much done for this semester I have my Comparative Policy/Program Analysis Paper due Sunday via e-mail. A paper that has a lot of critical thinking involved on something that is already critical thinking. Lastly, I have an application paper due for my practice class due by Monday that isn't small. Great fun as always and learning a lot!
By the way note from the author I will not be going to my practicum tomorrow due to the weather and I am tired ~ haha! Actually I think its going to be a snow day tomorrow anyway. I'll sleep in and work on papers some and do other fun things here at home, looking forward to the free day!
Thats about it for now. . . I guess I just thought I would update the blog and tell you all whats going on.
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