My past week

Well, I had written half a blog and then LOST IT! So I'm sorry mom this is later than I said it would be, but here I go!

First of all I had two major exams this last week. Obviously I survived but barely. My exams were in biology and speech. Biology was ROUGH, but I made 18th place in my class so that's good. I just wish I had done better since I stayed up until 3 in the morning studying after a whole week of studying also! Turns out, there were NO A's, 3 B's, 29 D & F's, and some inbetween. This shows how HARD my teacher is. Today she went over the questions and where they were in our notes. THIS made me mad because when I asked her about what to study and any suggestions she told me the italic questions we do for homework are what she considers the study guide. TWO questions came off of those, thats it!!! SO I'll have to approach it different next time. Speech was tough, but I did better there! Turns out our test was WAY harder and required more on short answer than anyone elses. But I did ok!

Classes are going well. I just need to survive Biology. My art exam is Friday, so be praying about that. My teacher's been sick so I've had two classes that we've got to skip, which is nice! Too bad for him though. Psychology is still amazingly interesting. Unfortunately we will be leaving the baby and toddler stage, but I'm sure I will continue to enjoy the class!!! Bible is great. We're in Revelation so it is pretty interesting and controversial.

Work is going amazing. Sometimes it's been a little boring, but we're aloud to get on our email and I've blogged obviously from the office. I've done ALOT of organizing and I'm going to try and get the office to recycle!

Sing Song rules my life still, but only for one more week. I'm SOOOO excited about it, but it will also be nice to get more sleep and have more studying time! We had alot of practices and have been having different people coming in to work with us. Everyone says we need t o get our diction down, so hopefully we remember that when we get on stage. We've cleaned up our choreography so it's good. I'm sad because they changed some things or dropped stuff because people couldn't do it! So I hope our show isn't boring heh. We got our outfits last night so that was fun and exciting! I CAN'T WAIT for my family and friends to come. From last Saturday to this Saturday I will be spending 2-5 hours a night in Sing Song. By Thursday that will be even more, because Thursday is our first show. Man it's intense!!!

Keith and I are doing GREAT! I am counting down to my trip up to Harding to see him and Jordan! He's doing pretty good with classes, working hard. Baseball practice has been fun and good. He's having trouble sleeping, so prayers for that would be great. But us as a couple are doing amazing!

This past weekend Madalyn had alot of fun together. Riane and Amanda went home, so we just spent the whole weekend together. Friday night we ordered pizza, treated ourselves to drinks, and watched movies while making cards. I opened my first gift from my Valentine's box that my mom sent me! It was TONS of AMAZING Valentine's day card makign stuff and it was SO fun! We enjoyed it! Saturday we ran errands. I spent the morning in a frenzy trying to get my Valentine's day box for Keith ready to send. Unfortunately the place we went to ship it was not a post office and so I couldn't send it flat rate! Postage is pricey let me tell you! But I'm excited about it!

I don't know what else to say and I've got homework so I'm out!!! Love you all!

_SarahCorinne

The Low Down

Well, again I write from work. Today I work two hours. I got here 5 minutes late and was nervous, but they were very nice and didn’t seem to mind as long as I didn’t make it a habit. I have been busy at work the past two days. Yesterday we had a birthday lunch for Christ our lawyer, but he woke up sick and couldn’t even attend. So my 30 minute lunch break between chapel and class was spent here at work. We had Mexican and it was VERY good. Mrs. Marilyn made cheesecake and I have an extra piece waiting in my room for me! I also got the leftover tortillas from Rosas, which I know SOUNDS silly, but the tortillas are AMAZING so I was excited! I worked three hours yesterday and most of it is by myself. I handled my first phone call. I got nervous cause there are different answers for different lines, but I did ok. When I transferred her to Mrs. Debbie we thought I lost her and I felt terrible. However, when we called the lady back she had needed to hang up on us, so I did everything fine! I just have to be better about asking who is calling. I did a lot of filing, recorded contacts we had been making, ran errands, organized, etc. Today when I got here there were a lot of errands to run. These have been my first two days of running errands by myself. I’m doing fine. Now, there is nothing to do. I made a phone call, but did fine. So work is going well. I love the people I work with so much. I’m still trying to build a comfort with Bruce one of the older men, but Dan I am really comfortable with (I think he likes me).

Classes are alright. A LOT of reading of course. I have at least two exams coming up I believe on Tuesday, so I have a VERY big study weekend in front of me. The ones I KNOW I have are Speech and Biology. Biology is still ridiculous because my crazy teacher, but I’m slowly figuring her out. Speech is A LOT of fun! We got to teach this past class, 25 minutes to prep actual material, and then 10 minute lesson. Everyone really liked our activity, we did a demonstration and it was like ”Who’s line is it anyway” so it was fun. After that we played a game to review, and that made me a little nervous about the test, so I’ve got to hit that study guide hard. Psychology class today was SO neat! We went into different rooms of the clinic and had things set up and questions to answer. We are still in the earliest stages of development and I LOVE IT because of my love of babies and toddlers. It’s amazing how much I already know just in terms of stimulating their minds and what they can do at different ages. It was neat! I can tell how much this class will help me in LIFE in general because he will make me a VERY knowledgeable mother. Bible is fun with Madalyn. We’ve been having very interesting debates and you know I love that! My teacher really pulls you in and makes you apply this stuff to your life and I really like it. English is good, we’ve been reading short stories and having to analyze the characters and symbols, and my psychologist side loves it!

Sing Song is going well! Practice last night seemed LONG. We started late because someone was in our room. Then, the girl doing choreography wasn’t there, so we worked on cleaning up what we already knew. It got REALLY nitpicky and I was impatient, but Madalyn and I have fun. She got mad at me because sometimes it seems I embarrass her with my amazingly outgoing character! Haha Oh well, she loves me. We got really cool sing song shirts ordered for our freshman group and I’m liking that. So it’s good. I’m REAL excited about my friends and family that are coming up, so I’m eager for it to come! We have practice this Sunday, which is also the Super bowl!!! But we convinced them to bump it up an hour and we agreed to practice outside even if it’s cold so they didn’t collide. I don’t even know WHAT I’m doing for Super bowl! I’m so used to having a party at a friends house, so we shall see.

I finally had a fun night where I allowed myself some time off of work or school. At 6 last night there was a free concert in the Bean Sprout. One guy was a new artist, but he was really good, acoustic sound. Next was a friend of mine Stephen who has a band with his brother Andy (also a friend), but Andy had a class so Stephen played himself without Andy’s drums. THEN the main gig was Rockin Extensions, a pretty well established band of students here. I kind of know most of the band now and the Lead singer Andrew begged me to make time for the show. I was on the front row and he kept making signals and pointing to me, so people would look at me like who’s that girl, yeah it was cool haha. Tonight I am going to a free movie here on campus called August Rush. I really wanted to see it when it came out and now I can for free! So that’s fun! Madalyn went to Dallas for the Livestock show because her brother is showing, so hopefully Riane and Amanda will go with me! If not, I’m sure I’ll know someone there haha.

Ok well this is really long, I’m sorry! That is my life as of right now! I’ll write again soon! Thanks for letting me ramble; I’m at work with nothing to do so this took up my boredom! Love you all!
_SarahCorinne