Practicum

The step family classes that we are teaching started on wednesday and I don't know what I was expecting to happen, but I was quite surprised at how it went. Basically two other girls teach the parenting classes, and two of us teach the 6-17 year old class, but from what we were told it's usually 14 or younger. So I got there and half of the class was teenagers, several were at least 15 or 16. So we did our first lesson, which seemed to be okay, but not all the way. Because the other girl who has a step mom seemed to relate better to everyone more then I did, since I don't have a step family. But it seemed fine for the most part and then they do this thing were the parents and children all come together and talk about what they learned in the class that day, at the end. So we all stayed in the room and after awhile of discussion the lady (they're actually not married yet) started asking the children all these questions basically along the lines of why the children don't consider them all being a family? Yet they aren't actually a family because the parents aren't married. So I guess that I was just surprised, because I've heard about stuff like this in classes, but it's never been real life. Basically saying that you really don't get the real picture from reading a textbook compared to being in a real life situation like that.
As of tonight I get to teach the class, because we do this thing were we each do a lesson every other time and then just help the other person when they are doing the teaching. Hopefully it goes over well, since the older teenagers didn't seem to really like it, just because alot of it is kid games. But I'm sure they'll all be back because there is free food and the parents are getting them there, so we'll see how it goes.

Luckily it wasn't broncitis...!!

It ends up that my roommate had the flu we think, because it went away in two days. And she's not coughing the broncitis cough anymore, so it couldn't have been broncitis...because broncitis does not leave in two days.

Sad story...!

On sunday we were at church and after sunday school my roommate Holly suddenly told me that she had a sore throat and that she was going to go home. And I was like "oh no, I hope you don't have broncitis." (but she just said that it was probably a cold) Well, being the same as I am she went over to her friends apartment to make indian food on sunday night and then she didn't get back until at least 11 p.m. And so I saw her in the living room sitting there after she got back and so I went in and she was literally just sitting there not saying a word, just so you know she likes talking alot. But she was just sitting there not saying a word and then she suddenly said that she was going to bed. So then yesterday she suddenly started sending me all these texts asking me how I could tell if I had broncitis and stuff like that?
It sounds exacally like broncitis now and the cough is a broncitis cough, and so she told me that she'd go to the doctor today. So hopefully she does and doesn't just take it as a sore throat like I did. But it's terrible because she's supposed to be taking the MCat this semester, so hopefully the broncitis doesn't kill that idea. It won't I'm sure...but it might delay it. But sadly enough the broncitis has spread from Ephraim Utah to Logan Utah...hopefully it stops in Logan is all I can say.
Guess what? (random part to the blog) I get to start teaching Step Family classes tomorrow for my practicum...fun, fun!! And it sounds like there are going to be some 18 year olds in the group, hopefully they are cool and don't try to cause chaos, not that all teenagers would do that. (hehe)

Van rollover of 2005

Last night I was kind of having a bad night because of the week and a half of broncitis, I still went to my math class. But I had these huge headaches and couldn't concentrate very well and so basically I got behind and I am now in for a brutal math semester. So yesterday we had our first black board test and I did study, but in the end I got lower then I would have liked on that test. And then after work last night and what not I was walking to my apartment/more sliding down the ice covered hill. And so I was just annoyed because of this annoying broncitis I am now in for a bad semester.
Well, then today I went to Religion in Life at the Institute and guess who talked at it? Some people by the names of Jared and Amy Nelson, you probably don't recognize the name. But I have a story here to jog your memory...fall 2005 there was a huge USU agricultural group that went on some trip in those huge old 15 passenger vans. Were on the freeway, the tire blew and the van rolled. There were 11 in the van, including a professor who was among the 11. Well, the van rolled and 9 of the 11 died. Two lived, one walked away in normal condition, but the other Jared Nelson had brain damage and is now in a wheel chair, can't talk, and worst of all he had only been married 5 weeks. So this friend of there's got up to introduce them at the religion in life and basically after the introduction he was like "and you guys think you have it bad, but honestly these two have it alot worse." And suddenly I was totally like thinking "oh dear, I at least found a study group for that math class, and I'm not the only one sliding down the ice hill around here." So yeah, that is exacally always how it works, when you think that you have it bad you find out that it could always be worse.
Honestly it would have been so much easier if Jared Nelson had died in the freak accident, well easier for his wife at least. Because then she could have gotten remarried later, but honestly that girl is amazing. She gave this whole entire talk on how it's hard because they don't fit in very well with other couples, but that's okay because all of us at one time or another feel left out or alone. And she just went off about how all of her trials are just like ours and nothing much different, but honestly hers are alot worse. All I have to complain about is being a poor college student, getting broncitis and doing bad on the first math test of the semester.

You don't appreciate it until you don't have it anymore...!

So it's really wierd, but all of last week I couldn't go to church or any of my institute classes all week long because of the broncitis. And so today was the first day back to institute class and it was really wierd because the whole time I was sitting there going "wow", which was rather odd considering it's Doctrine and Covenant part 2, so nothing to new. But I think it's totally because when you are fine and can go to church, institute and everything else under the sun you just kind of take it for granted. But when you actually lose it for awhile that is when you actually start realizing what your missing.
It's very interesting because my friend from choir and I decided to get into this Doctrine and Covenant class basically because the teacher is the institute choir teacher. And we just decided to get in that class to see if the choir teacher is more serious in a actual doctrinal class, compared to choir. But I must say that I think this is actually one of the best institute teachers in a doctrinal class that I've had at USU. Well, take that back I do like the Miracle of Forgiviness teacher alot, and the institute director also. (Brother Dymack and a few others)
But I think that this new love of institute actually stems from the fact that I've had to weeks to lay on my bed and moan, and also think to much. So since I was reading the work and the glory I seemed to be thinking about church history alot...so that could be a contributing factor.
But I suppose that I should get back to studying for Psychological Stats now...yeah we have a test tomorrow.

Money Matters Once Again!

I have a terrible story, so I couldn't return this $100.00 research methods to the book store, just because I didn't have proof that I was dropping the class. Because I wasn't, I just got a better deal on-line. So the only thing that I could come to was to put the book on-line and put it at the book store price. I was just expecting it to sit there awhile, but over night the book sold. So I sent it to this girl fairly quickly and I was quite happy about it because I got my money back. But sadly enough enough two days later I went into my e-mail to find that someone else had bought the exact same book and I need to mail it to this other girl by next thursday. Yeah, I swear I checked my account to make sure there was only one copy on there being sold...but somehow it still was on the ebay main page twice. Yeah, it's like I only the one book so how do I come up with another copy without losing money? So basically what I came to was that I basically bought the last used book in the book store and so to get one there I'd have to buy a new one for $150.00 while this person was buying my invisible one for $100.00, so I'd lose $50 that I don't have. So then I went onto half.com/ebay and couldn't find any good deals, sure there were some for like $80.00 but in horrid condition, and not what this person is expecting to get.

So by then I just didn't know what to do, I'd about decided that I would have to go get one at the book store and lose the $50.00. But then I decided to go to Amazon and see the prices on this book, well they were all about $110 or $150. So I went back to half.com/ebay one last time and then I saw at the very bottom this same book being sold for $72.00, so I went in. And they were brand new, which is what this person is expecting. Which is good because by buying that book I could save $28.00, which isn't alot but better then losing money. And so I ended up having about $85.00 in my total accounts. So I bought the book and now only have $12.00 in both of my accounts combined, which is really scary to get that low. But as far as I know there are no bills that will go through this weekend and if I make sure that I don't use a debit card or anything I should be fine until the money from the other book sales start coming in next week. So just hopefully it isn't slow coming through and it all comes in by the starting of the week. But isn't that terrible? That somehow it got two listings on there and now I have to almost invent a new book to get to that girl. But I'm just lucky that I went back in one last time to half.com/ebay and saw that $72.00 book at the very bottom and went into it and saw that it was brand new. So just hopefully this book comes fast and I can get it in the mail to this other person by thursday like I'm supposed. I swear my life is insane, but somehow things always seem to work out. Sometimes I wonder how it all works out when it's crazy things like an accidental listing for a book on half.com/ebay. But thank goodness it all has worked out is all I can say.

Good luck to you all have have a great holiday weekend with no school on monday!!!!

My brothers January surprise to me...haha!

So as was mentioned previously I was really sick and I basically placed it as a bad head cold. Well, by sunday I was coughing, had clogged ears and couldn't hear very good but other then that I was pretty much fine, it was just the cough that was being annoying. But anyways on sathurday night I was freaking out because I wanted to be better by monday, and suddenly it occured to me that I should get blessing. So I called my brother in law Richard, and he came over and did it. But while he and my sister were there at my apartment right off they asked if I had been to the doctor and I was kind of surprised because I thought that it was a bad head cold so I hadn't even thought of going to the doctor. Well, then that night I was talking to my mom she was asking what all the symptoms were? And as soon as I told her everything she was like "that sounds exacally like what Nelson (my brother) had for two weeks straight". (which was during christmas break) And I was like "Oh No, I have BRONCITIS". The next day I went to the doctor and I found out that I very much did have broncitis...thank goodness I realized what I had and stopped placing it as a head cold or I'd still be ill right now.
And luckily this wasn't 100 years ago or my whole family would be dead right now, except for my mom, dad, and my sister Amanda. Because we've all had broncitis now, well maybe Janae hasn't...but she thinks that she has because she was deaf in one ear for several months the spring that she got married. And basically with broncitis you get really sick with the coughs and then you basically are sick so long that it affects your ears and if not treated soon enough you probably could go permanantly deaf. (but maybe not because Janae finally was able to hear about from that ear by the spring)
But thank goodness for modern technology and the preizthood...or poor Amanda would be alone without any other siblings. Sadness...but just so you all know pneumonia follows broncitis and that is where it becomes a killer. So luckily there is medicine to stop it when it gets to broncitis...!! Also, there is something else that I totally just realized, but I'll leave that to another post because I need to run and do homework now. (considering I more better now)

You better watch out or else...!

So for the last week I've been back here in Logan in it's north pole conditions, with ice and snow everywhere. Anyways, due to being in logan winters for the last three winters I've become quite accustomed to ice skating in the parking lots and side walks while walk outside. Well, due to that I'm always quite careful and I don't think I ever even once fell last winter and I hadn't this winter either. Well, that is until today I was walking to my apartment from classes and I thought something along the lines of how I hadn't fallen at all yet and that it probably wouldn't be happening anytime soon either since I'm so used to it. Well, I was just two feet from my apartment door and suddenly there I was sitting by my neighbers door...luckily no walked out just about then.
The lesson learned is that it's unwise to become vain because you've become really good at something, because when your not carefull you'll slide and die.
Also the update on the first week of school...and that is that due to my lovely little 7:30 a.m. class this morning my illness has gotten worse. It actually was going away yesterday and suddenly there it was again today, but basically it doubled by degrees. Today I made the unwise decision of walking back to my apartment for the hour and half break between two classes. So I was going back over to campus to attend my psychology stats class to run into someone I knew. And this girl kept talking a ton and we were going up the hill and as soon as we were at the top I had this horrendous headache, but luckily we split ways about then. And by that point I was about to drop over dead...literally! So I hurried to my class and by the end of it the headache was gone. But by then I decided that it would be unwise to go to work, so I called in sick. And within two hours the headache was back and I was really glad that I called in sick. So hopefully this illness, whatever it is will be gone by monday.
So hopefully none of you are sliding on ice or getting sick, but have a great weekend!!

Something is wrong here!

So something very strange happened to me during christmas break, which is called that I was with sick siblings for three weeks and never caught it. And of course I was quite happy about it, until yesterday...which was the day before school started. Suddenly I started getting a sore throat, headaches, freezing to death no matter where I was at, and not just being cold but the bone aching cold. But being responsible like I am I still went to the first day of classes, and to bad they wouldn't cancel school tomorrow and count it as a snow day...wouldn't that be nice? But of course they wouldn't cancel school on the second day of school even though it's a complete blizzard and below zero.
Actually, it was quite funny because my psychology stats teacher actually put on the syllbus that if there is a snow day we don't have to turn in the homework. I thought it was funny that she put something about snow days on the syllbus, I guess that they're becoming more common these days.