MONDAY...SAYS IT ALL

Okay it's Monday. Well not just Monday...the LAST Monday of the program. Kind of sad I guess. Still preparing for my presentation on Thursday. I got my "speech" on my notecards, and took some creative thinking because the printer in my office couldn't be formatted to note cards like mine at home. Well I took some labels and printed my presentation on them and stuck them on the cards...Genius huh?

I know you don't really have to compliment me. Anyway...I'm also beginning to move out of my office this week... it saddens me. I'll start getting boxes together to put all my things in. I have a lot of things in here too...I started early making it nice and homey in here. I have tons of pictures in here, 2 bears, air freshener, cups, and a lot of other things.

Anyway, today, as I stated earlier, I put the finishing touches on my presentation. I actually think that I'm ready to get up in front of everyone and present my information. As I have said in other journal entrys, I finally am beginning to understand the purpose of me doing the project...

Well, I'm running out of things to type right now, and it is Monday...which says it all, right?!?

Coming to an end

Sorry I haven't been the most current soul in the program, but I've been busy putting the finishing touches on my project. Our symposium is next week, and I'm scared somewhat, because I'm nervous that my project isn't as good as the others and it kind of intimidates me a bit.

Well new topic of discussion. This week was our meeting for Dr. Lambros for our misbehaver Friday before last. I guess I should fill all you readers in on what happened. Well last Friday we took a tour of the MRI building, and let me add that we got lost. A large group of lost teens is not a good group to be in, because there were attitudes out the wazoo.

Anyway, we finally met our tour guide, and we took a tour of two rooms and that was it. Not the end of the story though, because somewhere in all of this some of the students were rude and earned us the label of the "The worst group of students" she'd ever seen.

Well the meeting was very brief, and apologies were plenty. Word to those who enter this program...IT IS NOT A JOKE! Don't act like you have to be here, because you really don't. Mind you manners and be on your toes.

Well, anyway like I said this week I have been working on my PowerPoint, and I actually began to see what exactly my project was! I put my animations on my PowerPoint today....nothing too fancy don't want to take away from what I'm trying to say nor do I want to have to click a lot or have a risk of my presentation going haywire. My mentor and I modified our list of target schools, and that made the project go a little faster in it's self because we had 46 schools and trying to obtain all their information would have taken more time than we had. So what we did this week was take the list down to about 28 schools...big change, huh? Well all information has been entered into the table, but we've encountered another problem with that.

How am I going to display my information? I made it a slide in my presentation , but it might not display accurately...it might be distorted in some way. Then we thought that we could get it blown up to poster size and display it that way, but will some people located towards the back be able to see it? I don't know what to do, and I'll just have to talk it over with my mentor.

Before I go I'd like to add that I've enjoyed getting to know two people in this program that I consider friends...Asia and Briana. They are very down- to- earth and so very "tres jus" (inside joke...LOL). I will miss them when this is over for sure. I've also met a boy that is very sweet and his name is Chrison, I go to school with him and never noticed him before now. He's the only one who asks me how I'm doing whenever I see him, and I think that that's cool. Oh like that pic of Blue and me?

Ahhh Where Do I Begin?

Well there is my badge to get in and out of here...Horrible picture I might say. There are a couple of other pictures of me with different cartoon characters...What do you think?

Anyway, Well today I entered in all data necessary for my presentation onto a tillable and started my PowerPoint presentation. I'm finally on a roll, and things are looking up so to speak. I finalized my brochure that goes with presentation today. I added a key that goes to my table to the inside of the brochure, and I also included an abbreviation table because in order to minimize space usage I abbreviated a few things and didn't want people to be confused.

It's only the beginning of the week so I don't really have much to talk about. Oh, well I bought some index cards so that I may attempt to put my presentation on note cards. I was trying to format my printer today to do that and messed things up so I don't know if to scrub that idea or just be persistent. I really want to do that idea because large groups scare me and I often forget what it is that I am trying to say to them so maybe if I have my cards some of my nervous energy will be transferred into the cards.
I don't know the week isn't over yet so maybe something will come to me.

My mentor and I are preparing for my mock presentation next week, and that going to be good practice because I have to do it in front of the whole staff her at the WHCoE! It sounds worse than it really is because the entire staff totals maybe 5 people including me so hopefully it won't be so bad.

This is relevant, but at the same time irrelevant. Okay, last week we had a sort of a pow wow with Adrienne, and it was fine except that some comments were made that didn't settle so well with me. Contradictory statements, don't tend to settle to well with me especially when I'm experiencing it first hand. Anyway, last week the thing was that we have all divided ourselves into little groups in this program.
Well when called to attention of some they denied it and said that we all get along with each other, and that some people are just antisocial and if they "opened" up then they would see that that is not true. Okay, sweet and simple right?

No, when we sat down with Adrienne those that were in a family all of a sudden said that we group ourselves. Now what happened to make you say something like that. Is it the fact that maybe, just maybe, We are not as nice we may think we are? I don't like hypocrites because they tend to be liars as well. Well I'll end that topic for now, and type to you later...

Good Morning!

Hellooooooooooooooo! Well it is back to the old keyboard again. I'm sitting here in my comp. lab, and it okay I guess for the moment, I mean it's pretty good considering that it is the morning. Well today we are going on our lab tours and I've chosen to take a few of my new found friends over to my work site, and show them what it is that I've been up to for the past four weeks.

Anyway, we also got in trouble this week for last week's display on one of our lab tours. I apologized for the behavior although I wasn't one of the culprits.

The program is getting better weekly, and I've reached out to the other students and they actually accepted me! That's cool I guess, I mean I want to at least be cool with them while we are in here. I don't think that we all REALLY like each other, but at least we are keeping it professional and being nice to each other. Well I talked yesterday about what it is that I was doing this week, so I'll type to you later.......

Dusting off the Cobwebs

Wow! Haven't been here in a while and that's my fault. Well this week has been rather interesting and quite tiresome. I've been up to my same routine calling and typing, calling and typing, call and typing. My printer has been running like crazy and I apologize to the trees for my excessive use of paper. Well where to begin? I've been a roll, so to speak, this week and I surprised myself by that. I guess maybe since it is getting close to the symposium that all work is flooding in.
Now I'm still recovering from this three day weekend that we had, and I've just been dragging in here crying out for sleep. If it sounds like I'm complaining I'm not, just being frank that's all. My mentor has been having a hectic week, and for the first time I realized that she had a completely different job outside of being my mentor...Kind of forgot for a second.
I've had just about enough with colleges/universities this week, because they are still being unreliable and it's getting on my nerves. I mean I'm sending out this form for a reason, so that you may return it and I can complete my study. It's not a certificate or degree people give it back. Anyway that's the only hard part really, because once the form is returned you just put with rest and move on the next institution. In the end I'm sure that it will come together.
Also this week I reached out to the other CERTL students and offered my friendship. I sent out an e mail to all and introduced myself and all that good stuff. I feel better already, and I'll end this because I've summed of my week enough. Look for he next post real soon!!!