Last week right before we were to go out into the field the agenda that our professors had for us changed. We were originally supposed to do three lesson plans while out in the field, write a journal depicting what we have experienced, and do a bunch of check lists. Now like I said up top we do one lesson plan, the journal does not have to be turned in to one of my professors, the check lists are still part of the agenda, and a reflection has been added in as a substitute for one of the lesson plans. Everyone in my class pretty much had a mental break down do to the fact that we do not know how to write a lesson plan, for the one we wrote for class was wrong and we got no feed back what so ever on it, and because everything changed on us at the last minute. We were all just stressed out and at our limits at that point and time that day.

Today, Monday October 19, 2009, started off the next three weeks of field experience for my major. My major is Early Childhood Education and there is more than just finger painting involved. For our field experience we are supposed to observe and get to know the students for the first week and for the second and third we are to do one lesson plan that will be observed by three people. The three people that will be observing are one of my professors, the teacher of the classroom that I am sitting in on, and a peer that is also doing their field experience at the same school. While at the school and in the Pre-K class I saw so many different learning levels. Many of the students had a hard time behaving and paying attention during the lessons. A few of the students did not know a lot of English so communication was a little difficult, but they are really smart when it comes time to answer questions. Today there was one student that was scent home with the flu and a few others were sick too. I just hope I don't get sick from them. All the students were a delight to interact with and watching them was very interesting and amusing. I am definitley looking forward to these three weeks. I just hope that the teaching program become more organized and finalized on top of it.

I have a new love of my life. No it is not a guy. It is this beautiful little girl right here.

Omedato to Me! I am saying this because I got in to the program of my Major. My major is Early Childhood Education and in order to continue on in to our Junior and Senior years we had to apply to get in to the Education program. Now that I have been excepted I get to look forward to the really hard work of the Education field.

Yea Yea Yea Yea Yea! *jumping up and down*

The grades are in and I am still able to keep my scholarship. I was really surprised that I passed physics with an A. I was doing horribly on the tests that we took, but I guess the A on the final paper and my exam must of saved my ass.

Music I was not surprised with getting a C in. I was bored through out that class. Don't get me wrong I love music, but the professor was just so boring. I got mostly C's on the tests anyway.  I am just glad that I am done with that class and don't have to take it over again.

As much as I am loving not having classes and everything, I now have a cold that I have to get rid of, and I have to find a job and an apartment to move in at the end of July. Stress will never go away, but is a lot less than it was during school.

Next week I will be going home and I will enjoy some good home cooking. Of course I will be doing exactly what I am doing now at home, but I will be glad to see my parents again.
 

Even though tomorrow is Kamenashi's birthday where I live, it is his birthday today in Japan.

For Kamenashi :
 

This morning was the beggining of my mentoring of a 2nd grade little boy. I have to mentor for an education class and it is also useful to get some experience in teaching. We mentors take our asigned child out of the classroom for an hour to have one on one time getting to like to read and write. The child that I was asigned is more interested in looking at the pictures in the books than actually reading it. I tried to get him to read a book that was about his favorite animal and we even read a book that the librarian at the school suggested. It was like pulling teeth trying to get this kid to read. I am determined to have this kid liking to read by the end of the semester even if it kills me.

This afternoon my one roommate and I realised that our heat was blowing out cold air and was making our apartment colder than it already was. We turned it off and the fan part of the heater kept running for a while when it should have stopped automatically. I am sick and tired of having heating problems with our apartment and I am also sick and tired of going to bed cold. It is winter and all I want to do is go to bed knowing that I won't wake up shivering and purple. Yes I have woken up a couple of times already during the winter purple because our heat would blow a fuse. We can contribute the blown fuse to a loose wire in the electrical box outside our apartment complex. What is even better is that the mechanics fixed that two days ago and we are now having this recent problem. Our heater has stopped working three times ever since december. It is only February. Tomorrow my two roommates and I are going to the leasing office and complain and threaten them with a lawsuit and no rent payments until it is absolutley fixed. 

Along with the heater we found out today that our dryer is not completely hooked up and that is a major fire hazord. Our apartment is so not up to code and if it is up to code it is right on the border between safe and not safe.  

My grandmother died yesterday at this particular time. I was relieved to here that she died in her sleep and that she was not in to much pain. My grandmother has had ovarian cancer for about a year now, but it had gone into remission a couple of times. This last time it came back stronger than ever and my grandmother didn't really have a fighting chance. I am going to miss her so much. The only grandparents I have left no are my two great grandmothers whom for one I have never met and the other I have met, but never see.

Losing someone is very hard I have lost both my grandmother and my grandfather on my mother's side in just three and a half years. I don't know if I am in a state of shock or just can't believe it yet, but I have yet to cry. I am sad and I do miss her, but I just can't cry. I think that the reality of it will hit me when I go home and go to the visitation and the funeral. Maybe I am just trying to be strong for my mother's sake so that she can grieve without having to comfort me and be strong herself. All I know is that I wish I had had a chance to say good bye properly.

Grandma if you are listening to my thoughts or are able to read this in heaven then I would just like to tell you that I love you and I will miss you terribly.

My layout has once again changed.
For both layouts I give all the credit and my thanks to  Okimiyage.