What and exciting night!!

Wow, this has been a rather exciting night! It all started about a month ago when I got invited to join Kappa Omicron Nu, a national honor society for the Human Environmental Sciences majors, which includes Child Development. So at the first meeting we had, when we signed the book that we were a member, I became the 1000th member of the society at Meredith! I made history - woohoo!

So tonight was our induction night. It was a very special ceremony and packed Jones Chapel. Mom and dad came of course and it was very nice for them to meet my professors that I talk about all the time as well as some of my peers.

After a rainy ride home and while I was in the midst of changing the sheets on my bed from flannel to regular sheets (which means warm weather is coming - yay!), my phone vibrated which meant new mail! I checked my email and had two rather exciting emails. The first was from one of my CD professors congratulating my group on our families workshop that we taught last night to some women at Matthew's House in Raleigh. The next one was from an education professor inviting me to join the new education honor society at Meredith - Kappa Delta Pi! I had a feeling that I would get invited to join this honor society, but is was still super exciting to get the invitation - especially on the same night as I got inducted into KONu! Inductions are in a little over a month so there will be another exciting night :)

I am now realizing that all of this hard work that I am putting in is finally paying off. Yes it pays off every semester in terms of my GPA, but now that is paying off and I am getting invited to join some really prestigious honor societies. Speaking of hard work - I am now officially on spring break, but too bad that spring break doesn't mean a break from work to be done - only a break from classes. Have a ton of work that I need and would like to get done so that when classes get back in swing, these things will already be done!

Down Memory Lane...

Well today was the day in which prospective Teaching Fellows had to do the last portion of the process - the big interview! Region 3's interviews were being held at Meredith, so of course I had to help with escorting the high school seniors to their interviews and then waiting to take them back. Over the 6 interviewees I had, and the 15 minute wait time for each, which added up to 1.5 hours, I had a lot of time to buy and play new games on my iphone as well as think back to when I had to do the interview. The whole application process was very intimidating to me and from the beginning of the process I never thought I would actually get it, but luckily I did :)

As I sat outside of the door and could hear every word that was said because the door was so thin, I actually formed answers to the questions and thought about how much my answers would be different if I were in their shoes. Over the past 2 and a half years at Meredith, I have had so many opportunities that have molded me and shaped me into the woman that I am today. I can't even imagine what my life would be like if I had not been blessed the way that I have been and had not chosen the path that I find myself on. These experiences have matured me and made me see education in different eyes. As I compared my own answers with those of the students who actually answered them, I see how much I have grown because my answers would probably have been just like theirs. Having been in their shoes I understood their anxiety and fear of the interviewers and I did my best to calm them down and make them feel prepared and confident going in. It is hard to believe that three years ago I was in their shoes - I can hardly fathom that thought. And then to think that in one year I will be into the full swing of student teaching. Where has the time gone?

I am so thankful for this opportunity to be a NC Teaching Fellow as well as a Meredith Angel and it is days like today when I understand this and it is really put into perspective.

Here goes another week...

Well, this week is going to be a rather busy and complete week!

Monday:

Baileywick (9-12:15)

Lunch

MUS 244 (2-3:20)

EDU 359 (5-6:50)

Tuesday:

PSY 312 (8-9:20)

CD 335 (9:30-10:50)

Pilates (11-12:20)

Thesis Research Group Meeting (12:30-1:30)

Homework in the Library

Dinner

MAYC (6-7)

Wednesday:

North Forest Pines (8-11:30)

Lunch

CD 345 (2-4:50)

CD 438 at Matthew House (6:15-?)

Dinner

Thursday:

PSY 312 (8-9:20)

CD 335 (9:30-10:50)

Pilates (11-12:20)

Lunch

Baileywick (1-3:45)

Mentor Family for CD 438 (4:30-6)

Meredith Does Moe's ?

Friday:

Work

What a busy week...now if these silly boys would finish the super bowl, I could go to bed and get some sleep before the madness begins!

Snow Day #3

Well, today has been a somewhat successful snow day! Got up this morning, ate breakfast, and went through one of the cookbooks that mom got in the mail recently. Although it is rather annoying to keep getting these cookbooks in the mail, it is fun to go through and make copies of the good recipes and then send the book back!

Later, I successfully started and finished Valentine's for my 2nd graders at Baileywick. I didn't think that I had paper to make them, but I found enough of the right colors and then pulled out the Cricut and got to cutting. Eventually they were all cut and decorated and had the Reese's hearts attached to the back. Then lunch.

After lunch, I ventured outside to get the mail and clean all of the snow/ice off of my car. Since I will have to head to campus tomorrow..and luckily on a delay, which I just found out about! Thank goodness...no 8am!

Since I hadn't done anything kind of activity on the Wii since last Monday morning, I was rather excited to get on and do some activity! Today I did a total of almost 50 minutes of activity according to my minutes counter on Wii Fit Plus and managed to unlock and successfully finished the highest Island Cycling - so excited about that one!!

What else will I be able to accomplish today..who knows?!?!

Another day of...

not much productivity! When I saw that we were going to have a big snow storm this weekend, I was quite excited because I could get some homework done and possibly even get ahead. This has not happened yet! Yes, I do have my readings for Tuesday done, but Wednesday's readings have been sitting open on my desk all day and I have about 1/4 a page of notes done. I'm hoping to get some of this done tonight so that I can play Wii and maybe begin making some Valentines for my class at Baileywick tomorrow. So, the hopefulness of being able to be rather productive this weekend was a lost cause!

Well let's try this again

Having done blogs in the past, I enjoyed that time that I could spend just reflecting and not thinking about all of the other stuff going on around me. So, on this snowy afternoon, trying to avoid doing homework, I find myself once again starting a blog. We'll see how much and for how long I can keep this up.