Wow! It has been almost one (1) year since my last post. Many things have transpired since then, but I will not bore you with every tiny detail.
First off, I finished all of my classes last fall and was able to stay sane from biology. Since then I have completed a Jan term class and a 16 hour spring semester.
During my spring semester, I finally finished up all of my graduation requirements in classes for my undergraduate. Now, I just need to finish working towards earning the 200 chapel credits within the next three semesters; I would say two years, but my last semester is when I am planning to do my student teaching and, as far as I am aware, when you are doing your student teaching the university does not required you to go to chapel during that time. So I am racking up as many as I can while I am still able. I currently have 121 of the 200 credits I need. This is a plus.
Also, during the spring semester, I did my first field experience. It was amazing!! I did it at one of the rural high schools in the area and I loved every minute of it! The teacher I was put with was soooooo much fun, I missed going to see her and the kids after I received my 30 hours. I would defiantly put in a request to do my student teaching there.
For Thanksgiving my side of the family went to Orlando, Florida. We spent one day at Sea World, another at Disney World and that Thursday we spent at our hotel/resort. I think my older sister, the two sisters just after me and I had more fun than the 5 – year old kids there. (For the record, we are all over the age of 16).
This summer has been a little different from what I have had in the past. For starters, I have been teaching piano at the same music store I took lessons from for years. I have been teaching since October of last year; I started about the same time as my last posts. I have three students who have stuck with it through the summer. I do not know how many more I will be getting but I might be getting two, one returning and the other one brand new, on the twenty-sixth (26). Making the grand total of five (5) students. This alone has taken an hour and a half of my week for the summer.
Also, we had VBS back in July. We did Kingdom Rock. If possible, I would like to do an entire post just on what happened during that week with pictures, but we shall see how I do in the coming weeks.
I am still cleaning the nurseries at my church; this takes about one to one and a half hours a week to complete. making my total weekly happenings to be about two and a half to three hours a week I worked during the summer.
On top of all of this, back in June I applied for a job at a local furniture store in town. Safe to say, I got it; otherwise I would not be mentioning it here. I worked three days a week for four – five hours a day making it about fourteen to fifteen hours a week to add to my two and a half to three hours I already had. The position I worked was clerical.
This is what my summer has looked like. I worked Monday – Thursday and had Friday – Sunday off to do whatever happened to take place.
This coming semester is going to be fun. I am taking five English classes totaling fifteen (15) hours. This means that I do not have to walk between buildings for my classes!! To top this already good news off, all but one of my classes are in the same room.
Also, this semester I will be working with a mission team of fellow college students as we prepare to go on a January mission trip to Senegal, Africa.
The little green highlighted section of Africa in this picture is where Senegal is located.
Well, this is all I have to catch you up with. Again, I apologize for the length of time it took me to post anything. I will also not promise to write really soon either, for we all know that lately when I make a promise to write soon it 99.99999% of the time be broken.
