So there's this trip to Paris with my school this summer. It's $2,000. I think it would be so fun to go! I would save money for that over a car any day. No possible way I could swing that kind of money though. Plus you have to tell the teacher if you're going or not by the end of October I think. I've always wanted to go to Paris.
A few more days until I'm 16! I'm so excited! I've had so many present ideas in my head. My mother suggested the idea to register for target since I find most things I want there. Sounds uber fun & a good idea [; heh heh
I noticed a cold coming on today. I woke up with a slightly sore throat & a little bit of a runny nose in 1st period. I came home early because my tummy was hurting. Then my mother noticed I had a slight fever. I keep telling my body not to get sick until at least Wednesday if it has to... or after 2nd period tomorrow. I have to present my lesson plan in Methods of Teaching.
My group & I wrote a skit for our lesson. Then I took it & filmed some friends doing it. It turned out really funny. They want me to post it on youtube. I so am!
My Child Development teacher wasn't at school again today. I hope she's O.K. She had spinal meningitis & was out for 4 weeks. She was actually supposed to be out 6 but came back early. She looked really sick when she came back, so maybe she over did it. I hope not. I also have a presentation in that class. On the same subject actually. Ownership. Don't ask.. I've had it on the brain for 2 weeks now & I am so ready for a break from it!
Oh goodness! Heroes is on tonight! That is my favorite show in the whole entire world. Do you have a show like that? I can't wait for it every week! Every Monday in seminary Alex & I always say, "Heroes tonight!" & then the other says, "I know! I can't wait!"
This blog has absolutely no subject or order or anything. I hope it's not too, too confusing.
I should probably go blow dry my hair now. Gotta look cute if the whole class is forced to stare at me for 30 minutes. I was actually thinking of wearing sweats tomorrow though cause I'm sick. Hmm. What to do? They say beauty is pain...
Monday, September 29, 2008
Friday, September 5, 2008
Title:
I didn't know what to title this one. I titled it, "title" as you can see. Huh.. ever say a word so many times that it starts to loose meaning? That just happened. Title, title, title title, title..
My second week of school was fabulous, thanks for asking. Child Development is my all time favorite class. It feels like a college class might. One day the air was off in the whole school! 97 degrees in all of my classes, 98 in others. In CD we sat on the floor in the huge empty space outside of the class room so it wouldn't feel so hot. That day my teacher taught us "This Is It" & how we need to make situations "it." She talked out a scenario about a person's life.
Remember when you were born? You said, "oh man, this is it!" Then you were sitting there one day & you thought about how if you wanted to go somewhere, someone would have to pick you up & take you there. So then you thought, "no way, this isn't it. I need to find out my own way to get around."
The scenario went on until we were 85 years old. It ended with us thinking retirement wasn't "it." What's after that? Nothing. You want to start over & make everything "it."
The point of this lesson was to learn that we need to make our life now, "it."
She did another example holding a homework pass. She said no strings attached, no catch, nothing. No one could believe it so we were all just sitting there. She kept asking us who wanted it. We would all raise our hands but no one ever got it. Finally one girl stood up & walked over to the teacher & took it out of her hands. The teacher explained how not everything we want will come to us & how we have to stand up & get it to make.. "it."
Kind of a corny lesson but it was really interesting & got me thinking.
Also, in this class, when we walk in the class room, upbeat music is playing loudly. We have to stand up & clap to the beat. Then when the teacher reaches the front of the class we start to clap faster. Then to close it we put one hand in the air & one hand behind us. We bring the two hands together & clap them while making a "oouuup" sort of noise. This causes a brain interuption to refocus our brains.
At the end of class the teacher sums up everything we learned in the class that day. Everytime she says something, we repeat it & acknowledge it with a "oouuup" clap again.
Pretty affective if you ask me, since I've remembered everything in this class so far!
My second week of school was fabulous, thanks for asking. Child Development is my all time favorite class. It feels like a college class might. One day the air was off in the whole school! 97 degrees in all of my classes, 98 in others. In CD we sat on the floor in the huge empty space outside of the class room so it wouldn't feel so hot. That day my teacher taught us "This Is It" & how we need to make situations "it." She talked out a scenario about a person's life.
Remember when you were born? You said, "oh man, this is it!" Then you were sitting there one day & you thought about how if you wanted to go somewhere, someone would have to pick you up & take you there. So then you thought, "no way, this isn't it. I need to find out my own way to get around."
The scenario went on until we were 85 years old. It ended with us thinking retirement wasn't "it." What's after that? Nothing. You want to start over & make everything "it."
The point of this lesson was to learn that we need to make our life now, "it."
She did another example holding a homework pass. She said no strings attached, no catch, nothing. No one could believe it so we were all just sitting there. She kept asking us who wanted it. We would all raise our hands but no one ever got it. Finally one girl stood up & walked over to the teacher & took it out of her hands. The teacher explained how not everything we want will come to us & how we have to stand up & get it to make.. "it."
Kind of a corny lesson but it was really interesting & got me thinking.
Also, in this class, when we walk in the class room, upbeat music is playing loudly. We have to stand up & clap to the beat. Then when the teacher reaches the front of the class we start to clap faster. Then to close it we put one hand in the air & one hand behind us. We bring the two hands together & clap them while making a "oouuup" sort of noise. This causes a brain interuption to refocus our brains.
At the end of class the teacher sums up everything we learned in the class that day. Everytime she says something, we repeat it & acknowledge it with a "oouuup" clap again.
Pretty affective if you ask me, since I've remembered everything in this class so far!
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