My Last Week, but not my last entry!

I have to admit that this was a very successful and fulfilling semester. One I surely will not forget. I learned a lot from my teachers and I believe I taught them a thing or two. I would like to thank God for all the opportunities that He has provided for me all throughout my life. I would like to thank my parents for setting ground rules for my sister and I because without them, I don't think we would have made it this far. To the love of my life, sir you have surely made this journey an unforgettable one...Know that! Last but not least I would like to thank the little people I have met along the way. I would like to leave you with this one piece of very important and valuable advice: do not place feelings on homework, essay papers and/or projects because the only thing you're doing is prolonging the process. Don't think about it and just do it, like Nike!

I have three finals next week and this weekend I willl be cramming for only two of them. Though this is my last offical week in class, this is not my last entry. I will see you soon, but until then HOLA!

My Thanksgiving Week!

For Thanksgiving my family and I went to Alabama to visit my mothers people. I was excited to go because I was "raised" down there. My sister and I flew down south to visit momma Johnson every chance my mother had free time when we were younger. Going to see my family was refreshing and I really enjoyed myself. I know anyone who went did. Besides the fact that momma Johnson had three turkeys, one fried, one smoked and one baked. Two different styles of dressing, gravy, three pans of macaroni, 50 pounds of chit'lins, two bowls of green, a huge pan of sweet potatoes, fruit salad, two red- velvet cakes, two chocolate cakes, two pound cakes one with frosting and the other without. Corn bread, rolls, a whole ham hog leg, tons of water, pop, wine, and other alcoholic beverages. There was great music, meeting with new family members, and bonding with the old ones. It was your typical family reunion without the family t-shirts. Of course, during my down time I went into a quite room to study for three final exams heading my way very soon. Before we all went our separate ways, all 22 of us gathered together for a family photograph. It was one of the best weeks ever! ;)))))))

JACK POT!

I THINK I'M ON TO SOMETHING
Today was odd, I didn't have a specific feeling I was just there. That is at school I was just there. I went to com then had a hour to myself and thoughts. Next I moved on to my political science class where we talked about the Iraq War... Then I went to prob and stat class. Nothing new besides homework but I guess that's nothing new.

The street I usually takes was closed down for a few months, but its opened up over the weekend so I decided to take that way home. It's 87th street. As I drove down southwest high I wonder what classes I would take next semester. Oh yeah I was suppose to set an appointment up with a guidance counselor. I don't know what good that will do me because I found out that I will not be able to get financial aid. No matter what I do I will have to continue to sweat and do "the man's" work just to meet the lowest payment of my education.

I told myself that I need to get a head start so I began arranging my schedule for next semester and getting my classes in order. To my surprise I'm able to take a basic nurses assistant course. I will learn how to read and record vital signs of a patient, bathe and feed them etc. It's not the most glamours jo but it will get me in the environment.... yeah right! Bad news I have to either quit my current job or work two days a week. its not a bad exchange for this course because after words I will be able to get a job at a hopsital hopefully earning the same wage I am now:)

This paper right here!

We finally have the research paper! It has to be 8- 12 pages long, size 12 with TIMES NEW ROMAN font. Discussing requirements for the paper today in class made me realize something. This is not your everyday research paper. We have to prove our points more with our everyday life experiences and just use different quotes here and there to support it. Not even that. Its like this research paper is based off of current experiences from our perspective or others in our generation. We just have to look for information to inform ourselves so we understand what we want to say and how to say it scholarly like. I think this will be enjoyable as my teacher says. It is something new and different from anything I have ever heard of. Well, we'll see how it turns out. See yah soon!

I need a vaction away from me!

I am the only one holding me back from what I want to do. I set expectations for myself because I feel that's how I will accomplish anything. I continue to do so because I get results! I want to step outside the box now but I cant because I'm bonded by a contract, which happens to be my schedule. I make room for this and that but not for me. I need to be away from me. I need a vacations from me!

When I got onto the expressway this morning I was thinking about getting off on the wrong exist. I wanted to go where this exist was going to take me and stay there all day long. Do you know what happened? I reminded myself of what all had to be done today, so I stayed on the expressway to school.

I'm here at school and I still have that same urge. I want to walk out of this building, leaving my books and drive. I want to take a road that will lead me to other roads. I don't care where I go I just want to go. I ask myself why I feel like this? My answer.... ME!

I choose to work 40 hours a week when I'm only scheduled to work 34 because I have to pay for everything. Also my boyfriend wants to move again! There's a problem, I have bills and debt I have to pay off first. I have to go to school Tues and Thurs. because I hate what I'm doing now. My goal is to become an RN for Northwest Hospital. This leaves no time for my boyfriend, as he complains! Then my sister is going through her teen aged thing so my mother looks to me to help both her and my sister. My father is in the picture but he is going through his own man thing. Whatever that means.

I make time for everyone else except myself and I continue to do it because I am bonded by a contract which is my schedule. Like I said I need a vacation away from ME!

Today's Activity!

In todays class, we had to get back in our groups and talk about the grading critiria that teachers use in order to determine a good paper. My partner was of course Dina and we had to elaborate on the " reader's satisifcation"! At first we had no idea how to start even with the questions right in front of us. We sat there, brainstormed a little and got the ball rolling. All in all it was a good day, yet again I learned something new.
Oh yeah thats what I want to talk about! Ok this whole porfoilo project is not new to me at all. I was force to do it in elementary school, which carried into high school. I thought the moment my English II teacher gave me my porfoilo, my senior year, I was finally done with writing papers just to look at them later and re-write them again and again; just to0 get the same grade if not a few points higher. Now I'm doing it in this class, who ever came up with the whole idea about educating the public by building schools. And in those school they placed people called teachers jsut to teach the same thing over and over and over and over and over and over again was a mouron. I hate porfoilos, I'm not going to say they are pointless because I would be lying. But I hate them it is so repeititve and.....nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! I hate this whole process and I'm not saying this because I don't understand the point. I do I really do but I just hate it. maybe because I have to read other peoples work and intrepute into my own just to prove I know what I'm talking about! Well , I'm done thanks!

How is everything an arugment?

In class today, I was sure that everything cannot be argued, but now that I'm sitting here trying to think of an example. I'm slowly realizing that I was wrong. I guess what makes an argument would be different opinions, the consideration of lurking elements, how some things have the ablility to change on it's on or by force, etc. Okay then, I change my mind, everything is an argument and we can argue that it isn't.

I'm trying to see the difference between facts and opinions. What makes a fact a fact and what makes an opinion an opinion? This is another statment in itself that is an argument.