EDU-241 Blog #1

This week in class we have used Microsoft Word and Publisher as well as Web Expressions. I have worked a lot with Microsoft Word, but I never knew it had templates you could use to make things go by faster. I can definately use those templates in my class for flyers or handouts so that the task goes by faster and I can move on to working on other things for the class. I had not used Publisher or Web Expressions ever before. Now with these two I can make more handouts or posters for the class as well as develop a webpage of information I want my students to see. These are both useful pieces of technology because it allows me to teach in many different ways, instead of the lecture-style classroom. With Web Expressions I can set up a Web hunt for students to use to learn about different authors or for them to practice grammar. It would be an interesting new way for students to learn instead of working out grammar on a worksheet.

I can also allow my students to use these tools for projects. They can make their own flyers, or whatever else the situation calls for, on Word and Publisher. That way not only will students be learning about English topics but they also will be attaining necessary technological skills to succeed in the future. They also can create a webpage on an author or book they are researching instead of writing a paper. This would allow them more creativity in their project and allow those students who do not like writing papers to show that they grasp the concept through another medium.

17 Days

I've been thinking about weddings. A lot actually...I even dreamed of one last night. But it wasn't my own, but Erin and Cory's wedding. And on Saturday I am supposed to be going to another wedding. When will it be my turn? A year ago everyone had bets I would be engaged by Christmas of '09. Now? it looks like it won't be till I get gray hair. :/

ok, so maybe I'm exagerating...but all I've ever wanted was to be a stay at home mom. I didn't need a job, or anything...I just am attending college to be safe. I just wanted a kind, caring, and loving husband who took care of me and children to look after and raise.

Happy news is that I'm surviving summer school and am about 1/3 of the way through! Yay me? haha...

oh...and london is in 1 month. exactly. :)

21 days

Dear Blog,
I am upset. for several reason. here is a mini (MINI) list:
a) not going to the mountains -> ethan doesn't seem to be doing anything about it
b) he's gonna go for a day without me to the mountains to see his family
c) the weekend of his going away party I have some stupid t.fellows thing that requires me to be gone all day friday (I have to miss a class and may now fail summer school) and then saturday the t.fellows lady said she'd let me off early. however, "early" could mean 9pm [i can't find the email] and i would miss his party. makes me look like a great girlfriend.
d) he keeps getting mad at me saying i'm "not happy for him and the navy" and that all I say is that I'm so sad about him leaving which is the exact opposite. i hardly say i'm sad and i'm always telling him i'm happy for him and help him with his stuff for it...
 
I don't know what to do anymore. I'm three weekends from his leaving (the third is the actual weekend of leaving) and I feel like I'll never have anytime with him now. Thanks to summer school, his work, and stupid CURFEWS and idiotic money problems...good bye any special moments we had planned. I'm just so frustrated and upset because it looks like the world is conspiring against me. I just want to pause time so I can just not have to worry about the days dwindling down.
 
sorry this was so teen-angst like.

T-26 days

I finally got my Navy Baby on Sunday...he's a beautiful blue betta fish with a cute (and modern) little fish tank. (I discovered you can put pictures in the back...picture of me and Ethan going in there? yup. :) ) Ethan got me him so I have him as a happy reminder when he's gone. But...tonight he's acting really weird. Mom moved him up into my room, and he was freaking out and at one point he even rammed himself TWICE into the fishtank loud enough that I could hear it from the bed...my sister and I think that it may have been trying to fight the objects around it so I moved them out of the way and we'll see what happens. If my Navy Baby dies I'll be really upset because I take good care of it and speak to it lots during the day. Ethan's MoMo lasted 2 years...Navy Baby better at least last for more than 3 days.

I'm struggling with Ethan leaving right now. Not like a "crying all the time" struggle, but a "I need more time with you...we should just move in together and not see anyone until you leave" struggle. He says it's hard for him...but I dunno, I don't really see him as being upset that there are only 26 days left. Wow...really? 26 days...I didn't realize that it was even that close. Lord, help me. I just look at happy couples getting engaged and married, and I just want that for myself. I don't have any guarantee of a future right now. Well, I do. I know that he loves me and I love him and we'll make it work..but right now I almost need a more tangible way of seeing that. I will miss him and he will be absent for so much in the next couple years that I don't know what to do. I guess hoping is good but there is only so much hope a girl can have.

"never give up on your dreams for going without dreams means going withot hope and going without hope means going without purpose"

Hello

You say goodbye, I say hello,
Hello hello hello,
I don't know why you say goodbye, I say hello

I know it's been forever since I've been on here, so I'm sorry. but it's been kind of crazy. I got a 3.76 for the semester's GPA which repaired my GPA to hopefully high enough for Honor's. It was a hard past two semesters...well Spring 09 and Fall 09 were hard, but this one was so much better! Thank you Jordan, Ethan, Mom, Dad, Jessica, Kendall, Theater Girls, and everyone else in my life. You lifted me up and made me see it was worth it to fight for what I wanted.

I'm working hard to make myself an English-Theater major with a 9-12 licensure...but it's gonna be crazy hard to get there...21 credits each semester? check. Summer school? check.

but everyone keeps telling me that staying busy like this means it'll be easier for me to deal with Ethan being gone...if it meant that Ethan would stay, I wouldn't be this busy. But we'll see.

I'm going with Ethan tomorrow to get his 30-day testing/check-up before Boot-Camp. It'll only make it more real...hello future, where did you come from? can we make a raincheck? Thanks...

Well my sister graduates college this weekend (lucky her) so it's all changing in our household. My aunt is here, and I love her, but sometimes it's a little crazy. I mean, they've been gone for over 12 hours shopping...wow. But whatev's. Tomorrow I'm making my handsome, strong, sweet, and amazing boyfriend lunch. And I'm so excited for that! :)

Oh speaking of amazing boyfriend. He totally did this HUGE surprise for me...and I had no clue what it could be...and then he surprised me with a CD of like 12 songs he recorded...for me! Jordan and her dad are amazing for helping him do this and letting him use the recording studio. I'm so lucky...and that CD has been playing nonstop and will continue to play nonstop once he leaves. I'm the luckiest girl ever because I have the best man ever. I love you Ethan....