im going to kill the 6th graders....lets just say the assistant principal was called in today to deal with one of them.

I corrected my TEP essay right, praise Jesus. I found out from a girl in 2 of my classes that she had to rewrite it 5 times. I felt so bad for her. Well apparently if u mess up once, u correct it. If u dont correct it right then u have to take an english writing mini class/seminar thing and then if u mess up again u have to take an actual english class that counts for a grade. That blows ass. Stupid people.

Hmm..i think thats all i wanted to say.

week of bliss

Ahh its nice not to have a million things to do for once. This week and next week are gonna be gravy compared to the last 2. And then after these 2 its spring break! woo! Well that wont be all relaxation...i'll get to that in a minute.

So I finished my uber thick book for educ 201 which is good cause Preston said hes gonna give us the essay topic this week or next week. So i'll get to write that over spring break. I got a 98 on my western humanities midterm, praise Jesus. My grades should be much better this semester. Not that last semester was bad, I only had 1 A though and i was hoping for a bit better since i dont have math lol that always held me back. But yeah i should do better. I gotta take statistics next semester..boo. Hmm...Oh yeah in my English class she cancels so much for us to have conferences, so i have 2 weeks of class and then a week off, 2 weeks of class and then a week off and so on. So I have these 2 weeks of class, spring break and then that week we go back, i dont have class haha. Yay me.

A girl called me today on the way home to work for her at the Children's center but i was already a good bit home and didnt wanna drive back. Plus it was only work for an hour and id have to kill 2. Not fun. But Cindy (head lady there) called me and said shes gonna put me on the schedule for sure on mondays from 11-2 and then whenever teachers need someone im on the sub list so they might be calling alot. But apparently im gonna be in the kids rooms, which ever one they put me in and then i go to the front desk for an hour while the secretary goes to lunch. Apparently all i do is answer the phone and buzz people in the door cause its always locked so random people dont come in, good idea actually, kinda like Boyd did during the day so theres no code E lol. Oh but apparently im gonna be working my butt off during spring break cause no one is gonna be there to work. I was suppose to work for Lauren 3 days for like 2-4 hours a day, but Cindy said shes gonna make a whole new schedule for that week alone. So she asked me when I could work and I said well those 3 days would be good cause Tuesday I have my final tutoring session from 230-330, i didnt tell her what time haha and i didnt really give a reason for monday. And i cant work all day on friday cause i think im going to atl with my sunday school class for the night. Some long days ahead...

Oh poo Im so mad! I called UTC foreign language department today to ask about Italian classes cause there in the catalog but not offered in any of the semesters. So I called and asked and the woman said they dont have it any more period. Apparently they offered it some time and there wasnt enough interest. Boo. Now im gonna have to keep teaching myself. I kinda wanted to teach myself and then take a class to actually be taught the right way. Grr. People dont wanna take Italian but they wanna learn Greek? Theres like 4 or 5 Greek classes. Grr.

Oh yeah I think if I can save enough money, I wanna go to Italy when I graduate from getting my masters in 2011 and then go to the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada in 2010. I wanna go to the Olympics so bad and thats the closest one for a while. I wanna go to one winter and one summer. But the summer ones are in China and London. Kinda far. So if any one wants to save money for 4 years and go with me, give me a holla lol. Megan? U kinda seem like ud wanna go to Canada for a week or so since u hopped in a car to New Orleans and your going to London lol. Think about that one. Any body who is interested, let me know and start saving money. I cant decide if flying or driving would be better cause Adam was suppose to go to Canada on spring break but that fell through. But anyway they were gonna drive and i think it was like a 15-18 hour drive or so. Dunno. I'll have to do some research.

Now im yakin.

So I had the longest day of my life on thursday:
830-1030 - Lab
1050-130 - class
230-330 - tutoring
7-9 - play

But take into consideration that I have to drive everywhere 30 mins, so add 3 hours or more to that. Boo. I was so happy when the day was done.

Oh yeah I met Jillian and her mom to see The Dead. Lauren appeared out of no where too lol. Good to see u Lauren! Anyway the only good thing about the play was the fact that it was set in Ireland, everyone was Irish, but no accents unfortunately and they jigged and sang all Irish songs. Other than that it was poo.

I went and took the Praxis I test yesterday, not fun.

APOLO ANTON OHNO WON GOLD!!!!!!!! I almost pist on myself I was so excited!!!!! Im sad the Olympics are almost over :(

Oh yeah Christin called me on Friday and invited me to stay with her at Lee. Good times. She came and got me and we went up there and her roommate wasnt gonna be there so i got to sleep in her bed. So we were gonna watch Just Like Heaven by ourselves, but Valerie and Hope and some other girls hadn't watched it yet, so we had to watch it with them. Good movie. But Christin bought me a passion fruit smoothie, it was delich! Anyway I stayed up till 12 which was amazing for me since I had been so tired from the day anyway. And then we went and had breakfast at 11 at Hardees haha. Good times.

Im so excited, only 2 weeks till Spring Break! Im gonna be working but its ok. Its only 3 days that week and the most I work one day is 4 hours. I need the moola.

Jillian u would be proud!!! I went and saw a scary movie!!!! Go me!!! Well I kinda watched it through my hands lol but i still went. Kerra wanted to see When a stranger calls and it was only the 2 of us in the theatre and we screamed and held each other the whole time. It was so funny. Not too bad though. I actually havent consumed myself with the movie like i usually do with scary movies. Good, maybe i'll be able to sleep. The last scary movie I saw was the village and i didnt sleep for a week. I slept with my main lights on too haha. So then we went to Shogun, yes I went there last saturday but it was great again plus we were starving. But anyway the awesome chef i had last week was at the table next to us and came over to get something off our table and talked to us. I thought he was our chef and was gonna say something about me being here again cause I thought he remembered me but guess not. Our chef was kinda boring actually. He didnt cut the veggies the way I like and didnt cook them anywhere NEAR the amount they should have been. Sorry, it kinda bothered me lol.

Hmmm...

My western humanities midterm is now a take home test which is kinda good but not really because theres a full essay to write which revolves around the same things i wrote my last essay on in there. Boo. But I have 2 days to do it so thats good. Ohh I made a 92 on my essay in there which i was worried about cause we only have like 2 essays and 2 tests. Oh and I made a flippin 102 on my educ 201 exam which I BSed ALMOST EVERYTHING ON THERE. Omgosh i was in shock for 5 mins after i got it back cause i thought i bombed it. There were like 4 essays and I wasnt sure what to study so i just put in what I knew and i got the 10 pt bonus so haha for me! Good times.

So Rebecca and I went out yesterday/night. We had a great time. We went and saw The New World movie with Colin Farrell who is John Smith and some girl was Pocahontas. IT WAS HORRIBLE. OMWORD that movie drug on forever. It was a 21/2 hour movie and we ended up leaving early, 1. because it was bad and 2. i felt sick for some reason, so we left. Goodness it was just blah. All it was was them arriving to America and being semi friends with the native americans for a while and then all the men were going mad and killing each other and starving to death. And then John was kidnapped by the indians and falls in love with pocahontas yada yada. Well i kinda wanna know what happened now but id rather have someone tell me. We couldnt decide on a movie and i was like hey that sounds pretty good. So we went and hated it.

But yeah anyway towards the end i started feeling sick for some reason. I think it was because I needed to eat something. I hadnt eaten much but that doesnt usually bother me. But anyway we called Kampi when they opened to make a reservation but they didnt have one till 9 so we called Shogun and went there. It was so good! We had a great time there. We got right in, even before our reservation and our chef was so funny. He was from Hawaii and cracked jokes the whole time. And the girls who work there wear little kimonos, very cute. And just about everyone was Asian too. I kinda liked the set up better than Kampi. Good times.

We got snow too!!! But a few hours later this morning u would have never known it snowed period.

My days are full as poo

I am so wiped. Ive had so much to do lately and more to come. So next week let me just tell u what i have to do:

Monday - test in educ 201
Tuesday - test in Heco 240 and paper due in West Human.
Wednesday - Paper due in english and test in Theater and speech

Oh yeah and I had a paper due in english this past wednesday and a paper due today in educ 201. SO MANY F ING PAPERS!!!! And on top of everything I have to read 3 books at a time and go tudor 2 days a week which doesnt sound bad but rushing over there immediately after class is tough. Plus yelling at 11 year olds takes a toll on u lol. So lets talk about my 2nd day of tutoring.

So on tuesday I had told them id bring them some jolly ranchers cause thats what they wanted. So i found the jolly rancher suckers. A whole bag full for 5 kids. So I dont tutor till 230 and they get out of class at 215. So i went a little early to talk to the secretary i never met on tuesday and after i met her it was about 2:20 or so and Im walking to the class and all the sudden i see all the kids like running towards me lol. I was like wow yall are already here? So anyway they immediately pounced on me about candy and i was like yes i brought it but your not getting it till were done with homework. I heard some groans from that lol.

So the homework they had was a worksheet of 8 problems on proportions. It was pretty easy. It was just word problems to set up and solve. So the plan was to go in and have them sit down and be quiet and tell them some rules or so like were gonna take turns writing on the board and ya da yada. That didnt work. I didnt really ever have a chance to tell them that. I know that sounds odd cause I yell ALOT usually and the kids listen, but here they just talk non stop to each other and to me all that the same time. Im helping one student and then I have another one yelling at me about something and then 2 others are arguing. Its insane. So I had planned on printing out some worksheets for them to do once they got done with homework. Well on the website it never printed the worksheets but it printed the answer sheet. Oh well I ran out of time so I hand wrote each page for them. Yes it took about 15 mins. Well i never got to use them.

Lets just put this into perspective. It took an hour and 10 mins to do 8 math problems. I kid u not. Thats how hard it is to manage these kids. But anyway Im using the candy as a bribe lol. I kept saying, if u dont finish your homework, no candy. So that makes them shut up and work. So anyway we finally finished and I had planned on giving them 1 or 2 suckers and then saving the extra for next time, well that didnt work and i gave them all 3 each and had 2 left. So i told them id give them a math problem and whoever got it right would get them. Well they groaned and said i cant do math lol. So i made it multiple choice for them. Well it was 6/8 and i just wanted them to reduce it. Well obviously its 1/2 but i had like 2/3 and 5/8 and 6/8 as choices. For some reason almost all of them chose 6/8!!!! Thats the problem itself lol. So once they all told me there answers I said no one is right and they fell in the floor like screaming ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!! It was HILARIOUS. Omgosh u had to be there. So once i said that they all changed their answers and one girl got it right and then the other 2 girls got mad cause she got extra suckers. Crazy i say. So next time im bringing them brownies and ill make sure everyone gets the same amount.

Oh yeah I can actually read other peoples journals now. LJ wouldnt let me for some reason for a while.

Tutoring - Day 1

o i started tutoring at Hunter today for my 10 hours in Educ 201. I was absolutely terrified. Ive been tutoring myself online with math.com on pre algebra, algebra and simple math. Haha its kinda sad but i learned more doing it myself with the help it gave me than at school. Alot about decimals i never knew.

So anyway I had to call last week and confirm everything so i talked to a woman in the main office and she told me to come see her when i came today. So I walked in and told them I was the tutor. They all looked at me with bewilderment. Cause the secretary told me to tell whoever was there who i was and they'd find her for me. Well the woman wasnt there today. So someone knew something about it and that I had some relation to Stacey (my soon to be aunt who teaches 8th grade there). So a girl took me to her room and I heard someone talking in there that wasnt her. And the teacher's lounge was right next to it and the teachers in there said she was out of town on the 8th grade trip. I was like well thats great. So no one knew what I was suppose to do or where to go. So they told me to sit with them until class got out and go into her room and see if anyone shows up. So I sat there for about 10 mins and listened to them talk. It was so funny. They talked about the kids and how weird some were and i was like haha this is gonna be me in a few years. All grown up.

So I went in Stacey's room and then 5 kids suddenly appeared. All 6th graders who were 11. So when they all finally got in there I asked what they needed help in. All at once they all go MATH. My heart sunk lol. So i asked them what kind of math they had and they said regular math, no pre algebra yet which was good news for me. And they said they didnt understand fractions or decimals, which was my problem but I looked at their book and the homework was easy. It was reducing fractions which they couldnt do very well. I had a worse time of them fighting over using the markers and writing on the board more than the math lol.

The girls didnt really wanna do the math they just wanted to draw on the board and the 2 boys were practically wrestling. But they liked my car and the girls loved my phone since it was blinged out with jewels lol. But somehow I got conned into buying them candy for thursday. They sure werent scared to talk to me though lol. They were wild and as full of energy as could be. It was pretty good though. Not too bad. I just gotta make sure I know how to do the math again next time. Back to middle school!