Jeez Louise...or...whatever

Wow! So I just got home from a seven hour shift of scooping ice cream. Which wouldnt be so bad except I broke a nail off scooping and moving the stuff and then dropped a 3 gallon bucket of ice cream on my toe...lovely huh? Well anyway I though my group, and everyone else for that matter, did great on our senior project! Even though I had never hung out with anyone in my group before we had a great time working together! I hadn't laughed that hard in a long time!! Now that that stress is gone I have something new to worry about! My procrastinator roots are showing as I sit up at midnightish trying to think of an idea for my exam project. I know the central theme I want to use but have no clue what method to use to get the effect I'm looking for! I know my exam project last trimester was joke but...well...I wish it would work again for this trimester!!

Off On A Good Note

Well, now it seems like the rest of this class is going to be quite fun. We got the tough things out of the way (everyone did very well by the way) and now we get to read books to little kids and create a project of whatever we want to! Not only that but we graduate the end of this week! Everything has gone by so quickly, its simply amazing. The things that I have learned and learned to do in this class are so great. I never used to read a book, a magazine, or watch a tv ad and analyze why they said or wrote what they did. Now I do. And I feel like I have so much more understanding of what is being said. I catch myself analyzing things all the time!! That is just one thing that I have taken away from this class. So, amidst the tough and stressful assignments, College English has gone above and beyond my expectations, and so I have of myself.

Last hard week...

I'm really glad the presentations are finally over. However, I do admit that I really enjoyed learning information about my group members' topics along with all of the other group members' presentations as well. I really did learn a lot overall.

I really don't feel like I did very good individually. I felt pretty calm when I was presenting infront of the class on Wednesday, but the library just made me lose focus. I was really nervous because there were more adults (not just Stariha) and it was a different setting than just at in the classroom. I'm really thankful for all of the support both in class and at the library.

Lastly, it has come time for our service and exam projects. I am excited for both. I know I will have a lot of fun reading to the little kids and I'm excited for the exam project because my groups idea is very unique and different. I really hope everyone will like it. :)

Exam project

When's the exam project due?

The End......

So our Senior Project is over with, I'm so thankful for that! There were about seven people at our presentation, which really didn't shock me because it's Memorial Day weekend. Our group did pretty well, we had milk and cookies at the presentation.
And after we were done we went out to eat at Schooners. Our group was kind of awkward/random, but we all had a good time working together (for the most part). And just about every time we met we had pizza!
Now time to worry about the Service Project and Exam Project. I think I know what I'm doing with both, but I'm going to work with some of my friends in this class tomorrow and work everything out, so I'm excited about that!
Graduation. I have been wanting graduation to come all year. I have been so excited to leave all these people behind and begin my life. But the fact that I have become close to certain people scares me. The thought keeps running through my head, "what if they never talk to me again?! What if I don't make new friends?!" I am so scared to graduate now. Fourteen years of being in school is hard not to miss, right?! Uggghh, I don't know....

A tad depressed.....................................................................

I felt my group today performed excellently!  We were able to make individual improvments, our powerpoint was fixed of minor bugs, and we had a niffty intro.

And no one saw it..........

Only one student came, Alex (thanks man!), then the last four were parents.  Our handouts were booklets!!!  We only gave out about 5 of 50!

I feel our message, and one of the most important ones of the groups, fell on deaf ears.  We were supposed to inform the public, and we failed.  But we did do a good job.  It just bugs me that I invited SSOOOO many teachers and others, and (almost) no one supported us............

Senior Project Presentation

I am so proud of our Student Outreach group and felt so comfortable practicing in front of them. I felt really bad when I had noticed that there wasn't much time left for Emily, Sarah and Brian but not having the time constraint at the public library definitely felt better. We did have a great audience and I actually was glad that they had asked questions and that we all had an answer for each question. I know that I actually spoke a lot but that's not really different than any other time, but I really felt like I needed to stress the importance about ESL in our schools and how Shelby lacks the programs and methods that we need in order to improve the English language. I'm hoping people learned so valuable information and that changes are made due to our informational presentations.