General update

rst, for those of you who are not on Bryan's list, some news. For those of you who are, skip this part :)
Brazil

So Bryan got the internship to Brazil after all! We just found out yesterday. He'll be leaving in Mid-July and staying there until October. I thought this would be a great time for him to go since I'm taking summer classes full time and am taking the qualifying exam during the summer semester. Funny thing is, the exam is in June, and almost all of my classes are done by mid-july. I have only one class for one week in July, all the others are done by the end of June. So...I'm gonna have to find me a full time job for the summer since I won't be teaching either (summer break). We're really excited, and really, this is probably the only time he'll get to go to Brazil again for a VERY long time. I just hope I can make it for a week sometime....


And for the rest of my life :)
School is going ok. I have almost full credit for all assignments in all of my classes. The midterms are stressing me out though. For one class, we have to cite where we got our information using the author name, year and/or title of the article. No, it's not open book. That's the sucky part. We've read at least 15 articles for our assignments, and any of them could be used for the test. :/ I hate that we have to cite where we got it from, and this is an undergrad class!
The other midterm sould be ok as long as I memorize the meanings of all the terms.
Pre-school teaching is awesome. I love the kids, and am surprised as their abilities most of the time. I love their signing and am noticing (thanks to Bryan pointing it out) my ASL skills are definitely getting more ASL ish (grammar, facial expressions, etc.). I'm excited about that.
My last stressed out post pretty much sums up how I am right now. I just have one additional thing to add to it. I now tutor on Monday and Wednesdays (requirement for the article citing on test class). So I go straight from teaching to tutorig with an hourish break then to class for 3 hours. Crazy eh?
Still working my data entry job, secretly hoping it will last through the spring semester so that I could possibly do this for a full time job summer semester, especially since all my classes are during the day...all day. Here's what it looks like:

05/19/2008 to 06/06/2008 M,T,W,H,F 04:30 PM-08:00 PM
06/09/2008 to 06/13/2008 M,T,W,H,F 08:30 AM-04:30 PM
06/16/2008 to 06/27/2008 M,T,W,H,F 08:30 AM-02:30 PM
07/23/2008 to 07/30/2008 M,T,W,H,F 09:00AM-01:00PM

That's my entire summer semester in four weeks, 9 credits. I think it's insane, and I hope and pray my coordinator is able to find services for all of them.
My classes are:
Speech Acoustics
Audiology for Teachers of students with a hearing impairment
Orientation to teaching students with a hearing impairment
Grammar workshop (not sure exactly what this entails, but it's only one credit).

****PLEASE NOTE*** Hearing impairment is NOT MY choice of words, it is the university. I do not want to get any backlash for the use of the term again. Thank you



Dad has to have surgery for some discs that are going bad on his spinal column. I may have mentioned this already, but something else has come up. He can't feel three of his fingers in his right hand. They originally thought this was due to the bad discs, but it's not. So he hasn't had his surgery yet. He goes back on Monday to try and find out what's going on with his fingers. They think it has something to do with his elbow. Please keep him in your thoughts.