Thursday, September 02, 2004

 
It's been a good day today. Chapel was wonderful- Jess spoke about the year's theme "The world beyond me" and really put a lot of things into my mind... the most important being that Christ really is the center of everything and is what we should be working for, in all aspects. I hope I learn a lot about selflessness because that's really what i need to sink in. This all happened right after I got an e-mail from Ruth Ann almost confirming the fact that I'll be going to Mexico in the spring. Of course, then Jess had to go and say some things about Mexico that made me weepy... and things are just turning around... it's good to think about these things, and how they all work into one purpose.

Then I had a class called Teacher as Manager. Our school is really small and a lot of the Education people are always in the same classes, so you feel comfortable, and that's just... nice. The professor is new our school and so I, for one, was wondering what he was going to be like. Super cool guy- really funny. I'm REALLY excited for my Ed classes this term... I'm really longing to find out all the information I need to know to get kids interested in learning, besides many other things. The professors' passions for education, schools, and kids really rubs off.

Besides that fact that this Tanner guy is just really funny. He was joking around about how since we are going to be teachers, we get a guaranteed spot in heaven. And we made up classroom rules, and one of them was to be interested, and he said "or at least act interested". And he likes to have a superhero stance once in a while. He's just funny and I can tell I'm going to like him.

Monday, August 30, 2004

 
Classes started today. Last week was mostly moving in and getting arranged. And then a lot of sitting around and being lazy. I went to a couple of orientation things, just because I can't help myself. We watched the new students be knighted, and we drove about 45 minutes to watch the extent of messy games- which is just classic fun.

Last night we went to a chapel, had residence life meetings and went to the annual root beer kegger. Our house of roommates left early, however, because most of us had to get up fairly early for classes.

That's right folks- over in this corner Meghan is starting the school year off with a bang- 7:30 is Observation, Assessment and Evaluation with professor Arndt. After that, I had Nutrition at 9am, and then Social Studies in the Classroom at 10am. As much as i was a little tired after three classes for 4 hours, I am excited for this semester. We all know that fades in time, but the morning was not bad at all. I think OAE will be a hard class, along with my HUM410 project... but I think the other classes I'll enjoy.

How much has Seth rubbed off on me? I'm sitting in Social Studies in the Classroom thinking it is so much fun because our professor is quizzing us about who was the president in 1800?- who did he run against?-how did people know about the candidates?-how was the north different from the south?-what were the 16 states? etc. etc. I think I'm gonna like that class. I think I like it because although I'm don't know the answer, I DO know that Kennedy was not the 7th president. ha. ha.

I need to go practice my bass. I know that soon I will on that little stool in front of my teacher, and I don't want to be completely dumbfounded because I can't remember how to find F# in second position.

4.5 days.



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