Birthday

Bryan has a weekend planned for my birthday this year. (it's sunday). He won't tell me a THING about it. All I know is I have to pack for two days and that we're leaving tonight...hmm, not sure what's going to happen. But I'm super excited :) 

Oh, my cell phone DIED a couple of weeks ago. Well....Dad got me a new one for my birthday and I just love it. YAY for birthdays!

and I can only probably say yay cause it'll be my 23rd birthday....

Missed flight

Bryan missed his flight in Ny after having 230897234987 delays in Atlanta for his layover. He might not make it home until tmrw night. :( I feel bad for him cause he wanted to be home tonight so he wouldn't miss classes tomorrow as he already missed two days. Sad. that and I miss him..

I complain a lot

So, tonight is pretty much the first time I'm at home "sleeping" while Bryan is gone. he's in NY for the next 24 hours doing a red eye flight to do something for work. I can't sleep, I didn't think I would have this hard of a time with it. I tried to start sleeping about 2 hours ago, but haven't been able to yet. Which is very odd and frustrating, I've been exhausted lately and have done nothing but sleep when I'm a passenger in the car or whenever I simply lay down. and now....I can't freaking sleep! bleh. stupid. WE just got back from Idaho from visiting chancelot (sorry don't know how to use the username link thing) and his wife. It was great, we got there Friday night, and stayed until Monday evening, however, since the alternator was shot on our way home....we got stuck in Pocatello and had to stay the night. The car died while driving it, thankfully, near a hotel. The first hotel we went to was booked cause of the POTATO EXPO! *rolls eyes* Long story short, we got it fixed and got home around 7PM tuesday night when we meant to get home 10PM monday night. Then Bryan had to leave just fter 830 to catch the shuttle to the airport to do this trip to NY. So nonetheless, it was a stressful trip home. Ended up paying about 450 for the alternator to be replaced at a shop, and the hotel we had to stay at only had two rooms available (the others were full) and the room cost 89.99 (she gave us a 10 dollar discount so it was 79.99 instead). we also had a moronic driver take us from one hotel to the other, the trip ended up being about 15 minutes long when the other hotel was JUST ACROSS THE STREET. we just didn't get it. We got to the hotel and that lady was nice, and we were there for 10 hours, we slept quite a bit, we were tiiiiired. then woke up, had a mean mechanic on the phone, but had no choice but to go there. Had a wonderful tow truck driver have us follow him to the place. Dealt with mr jerky jerk and waited at the shop from 10ish to 3 or 4, I can't remember. During which we walked in the freezing cold (givse me the chills to think about it now) to get lunch at the only place that had food (chinese....in Idaho...interesting). Finally get out of there, and it's snowing quite a bit as soon as we get on the freeway, thus we're slowed in our travelling time quite a bit. Got home, had to run to Wal-mart and Bry's work to get stuff for the trip that he needs, came home, he changed and was out the door. I miss him a lot. that's all I have to say about that.

Seriously not showing off

My entire time in college, the past 4 1/2 years, has been difficult for me to get good grades. I always get A's on my homework assignments, it's the tests that kill me. My first year, I played around too much and slept through almost every single class. My second year I got it together a LITTLE bit, still had a hard time staying awake in classes, and still hadn't really determined my major. My GPA hit an all time low of 2.5 if that lets you know how bad I was doing. My third year....Started realizing that the major I picked and was doubting was REALLY not the major for me, but didn't know what to do, so just basically took a bunch of GE's and classes I didn't need. My fourth year, finally figured out what I wanted to do, picked the major and registered for the major classes. I really struggled last year with some of the major classes I had, especially all of the development type classes (they all had a ton to do with theory, thus, lots of testing and little homework). So I'm officially in the program this past semester, all major classes, no more GE's or pre-requisites. This is it. I worked my butt off this semester, and I worked hard. I got married this semester, in the middle of it nontheless (october 7th), and that was not easy. We got back from our short honeymoon the night before I had a final for a block class. Things were pretty stressful, but I LOVED all of my classes. I worked so hard, and worked jobs whenever I could. I also had 6 classes (all 2 credits, but all demanded work that was at least a 3, maybe 4 credit load class). So all this being said, I just finally got the rest of my grades posted today for fall semester of 2005. For the first time ever, I didn't get anything lower than an A- in a semester. I got 2 A-'s and 4 A's, a sparkling 3.90 semester GPA. I am so freaking proud of myself for working so hard and being able to do that. Merry late Christmas to me, Emilie! :)

Present

My parents got us a CHOCOLATE FONDUE FOUNTAIN for Christmas :D YAY! We just won't be able to use it until we have a bigger apartment and are able to have people come over :) But I'm still excited, we also got a tivo from Bry's parents. super nice! :) we just have to see if we can get it to work since we don't have a land line to hook it up and start it....we'll see

Holly

my parents got a new puppy! My cousin's dog had puppies and they gave us a puppy for free. This one is a chocolate lab springer spaniel mix (both big hunting dogs, one is a hound, so she keeps sniffing around all the time!). She is a very playful puppy at only 8 weeks old. No name for her yet, but she's so cute and gets cuter every time you look at her!

Say hello!

internship

Had a good day today, told Bryan the whole thing, I'll make it so the screen names don't show up again :) and apologies before hand for the length, but A- I was super super excited (still am), and B- Bryan asked for details :) 



so i was mostly nervous about applying for an internship because of A
I have a lack of confidence (my teacher was very surprised at that)
and B I don't know how the principals and interviewers will react to
possibly having a hearing impaird teacher teaching "normal" kids
we talked about it
and I guess he's talked to a bunch of teachers about me a few times
cause he named the teachers and said that each one of them had NOTHING
to say but good things about me and how I worked with kids
and he thinks that I may even possibly get to do an internship in Kindergarten
but we have to look into that
and then he had another person come in who is in charge of the internships
we discussed my hearing loss, my speech ability and such, I don't
model and speech errors, I talk fine, and I get along well with kids
and I did very well in the preschool practicum
she feels that I should be fine if the cohort goes well and should get
an internship without a problem
then she left, my teacher asked what my big dream with this degree was
and I explained the preschool that I want to have, cue and ASL and one
where hearing siblings can be involved as well so they can communicate
with the deaf or disabled sibling on a regular basis
and so that literacy skills could start building up at an early age
so that won't get so far behind by the time they hit grade school
he then asked "what is.....cued speech?"
I laughed and said it's what i've been using in the classroom,
apparantly this whole time he thought I was using ASL
so I explained it to him, and he was fascinated, and we talked about
how it would work with other disabilities
and he said it just made sense to use it as you start learning the
language of the environment at a young age and you get the literacy skills needed that you can build on to survive in this world
he was so amazed by all of this then said
well....if you ever want to do research on this
on cueing
in collaboration with BYU
let me know and I'd be more than interested to get BYU involved

!!!!!!!


can you believe that? I was so happy

yeah, and he said to apply for the internship, it's better to apply
and then decide around the interviewing time if I want to do it or not
cause if I do my time in the school (which doesn't start until after
the application is due) and decide I'm not ready for it, then I can
pull out and there will be no record that i applied then changed my
mind or anyhing like that
and if I do want to go ahead with it and don't get an internship, then
the decision is made for me, the student teaching is the way to go
so I'm gonna apply
AND
if I get the internship
I can do the preschool student teaching I have to do, THIS summer
instead of next year
so I can just graduate right after the internship
AND he also said he would try to get it so that I could be placed in a
specific school he thinks would be ideal for me to intern in for my
cohort semester, that way, the people can get used to me and have an
idea of how I can perform despite my deafness

so I would do the cohort at the school, then hopefully apply and get
the internship there at the same school
(the one he has in mind is in Alpine, brand new school that has a
special education preschool even and he's interested to see if i can
be involved in that if they have an interest in that)