Reflection of this past semester

So the end of the fall 2010 semester is coming really fast and this happens to be the last blogg posting i have to do, so i thought i would do a sort of concluding blogg. I've really actually liked this semester. All of my classes weren't to bad. I was really lucky that i had the same schedule as most of some of my friends from high school did. Megan and i had the same exact schedule here at redbud, but the only class we had that was different was our math. Hers was in redbud and mine was in belleville. Looking ahead, it kinda sucks that I'm going to Beck Career Center for lpn instead of continuing here at swic. I'm really excited, but when i got the list of everyone else that is in the program.. i didn't know anybody. Apparently this one girl i used to go to high school with might get in because some people backed out. So hopefully she does so i can have a study partner. It's gunna be really hard. But it's something i really want to do so I think I'll be okay. But I'm going to miss everyone i'm going to classes with now. I'm leaving for a whole year and then coming back to do a few more classes in 2012 so i can start the rn program. Most of everyone will be ahead and already in their programs and ill just finishing up with my generals. It'll be okay though I'll see them around.I'm just really tired with this whole school work routine.

Thanksgiving/ Christmas

So Thanksgiving is coming up really fast along with Christmas and i'm really excited. For Thanksgiving i have two diners to go to. One with each set of grandparents. One of the diners is at a hall and the whole family comes to eat and just spend time together and the other is just at my grandparents house and we just eat. I can't wait to eat! I'm also really stressed out for Christmas. I have a lot of expenses like tuition and a credit card to pay off before school starts in Janurary, because I won't be able to work much at all so these things need to be paid off. I really want to get my whole family at least one gift and I also have a big present to buy thats really expensive for a friend. I love buying gifts for family and friends. I just love giving. I rather give than receive a gift. I also have a lot of traditions  that I do every year. I always have to watch charlie brown for Halloween, thanksgiving, and Christmas. I also can't miss all of the ancient Christmas shows on like cbs or something. My mom usually has like four Christmas trees up. Our main one is a revolving tree which is in our living room, we have a regular green one in our dining room and then we have two white ones in my room and my sisters room. I also have to go to the mall around Christmas, it's so crowded, but they have christmas music playing, and the santa pictures in the center of the mall. It's just so jolly.

Holiday Courses

So I'm looking into taking some holiday courses over this coming Christmas. I'm not looking forward to it but since im going to beck for the nursing program in January, i wont be here for the spring semester which will make me lose the scholarship of five hundred dollars for that semester. It sucks really bad but i really dont want to see that money be given away to someone else. No matter what I'm coming back to swic to finish with a rn degree, so id rather be really busy and try to get a few classes for that money instead of paying for it later when it could have been free.  It's been a very busy week for me... Ive been working around the clock. Work called me in on Halloween to work night shift which is  ten thirty at night to seven in the morning and then i had to go back in that same day at two to work my normal evening shift. It was bad i was driving home and almost fell asleep! I've never been that bad before or experienced almost falling asleep while driving. I had to roll my windows down and turn the radio up!

Assesment?

So for one of my very least favorite classes I had to take this test called the Mbti. It is a test through swic that asks you a variety of questions that are supposed to help guide you in the direction of a career for you. Now I have already decided senior year that I want to be a nurse, so it's really pointless for me but it would be a good tool for anybody who still hasn't decided what they would like to major in and do for the rest of their life. The test composed of a variety of questions, about one hundred I think, that asks you what you would do in certain situations. Are you more of a social person that talks to people or are you more quiet and reserved and is the type of person to get talked to. I just answered all of the questions really fast and I'm curious to see what my results will say. I still think i will be pointed towards a career in anything that has to do with people and being involved socially with them and provided some kind of service and help to them. I know for sure it won't have anything like miner or construction worker, I would laugh so hard if it did.

Birthday weekend

So my birthday was on Tuesday, October, twenty-sixth. I had a really good birthday. I went out to Tequilas in red bud for the first time on the spur of the moment with a few friends from class. It was really good I got a chimichanga  and my friends told them it was my birthday so they sang happy birthday to me and i got a free pancake thing with ice cream. I left a comment card though because i ordered that i didn't want any pico de gallo because its gross and they gave me a huge hunk so I wrote that on the comment card. I felt bad after wards. But since my birthday was on Tuesday, I went out the weekend before. So I couldn't decide to ethier go to the Darkness or Creppyworld, so eventually we all decided to go to creepyworld because we heard that there is a rough neighborhood by the darkness. So it was alot of fun. There wasn't much of a wait when we got there, but as it got latter into the night more and more people started to come. The only thing that i thought the place could use was more people to scare you. There were alot of parts where it was just scenery to look at and go through. Anyways it was alot of fun and I'm glad we went.

The Darkness

So in a couple of weeks, myself and a group of friends are planning on going to The Darkness. Now I've heard so much about this place and I've wanted to check it out. It's in Soulard and it is one of the haunted houses in America that is the most reviewed. It also has been used for haunted house footage from the National Geographic channel to NFL. I've heard it's really scary and I'm into this kinda stuff. There's always something to do in the month of October! Last year I went to the Haunted Trail in Waterloo and the Haunted Woods in Evansville and it was fun, but it the one in evansville used to be so much more fun when it was ran by someone else than the fire department. The fire department has recently taken it over in the past few years and they have more rules to follow for safety reasons. There is another big haunted house I would like to go to but don't think i can make it this year, it's called Creepy World and it supposed to have seven different haunted houses in one location or something like that; that's pretty convenient.Haunted World has ranked this screampark number ten in America. It's got a haunted hayride, haunted mansion, vampire themed graveyard, and a military theme one called Silo-x. So it sounds pretty cool after doing alittle research on them so if you haven't been I suggest going and checking it out.

Lpn Program

So I had a very good weekend this past week. I was out with my friends and we were all just hanging out. I got a call from my sister, and she said that Beck Area Career Center has sent me a letter. I was very anxious and excited to find out if i was accepted or not. I got home very fast and opened the letter. I really just wanted mom and dad to open it, but they were like you should open it. So I opened it and found out the good news. I was accepted. The only bad part about it was the tuition. It was $13,250. Very expensive. So I have alot of things to do on this upcoming week. I have also alot of deadlines. I scheduled to have doctor appointments, dentist appointments, and financial appointments. I'm very excited, and I'm very lucky to have some nurses I work with to give me a heads up of the program. I've learned I'm in the 'easy' class. So that's good! But I really take this seriously and I've waited to find out since March to find out if I'm in; so I'm going to do my best in the class and utilize all of the information that I can.