Street Painting!!!!

I just got done with Street Painting a few hours ago. Street Painting is the weekend before Relays, and it's a great time to get out and be a part of the Drake Community. Organizations design squares around the theme for Relays and their own theme, and paint them on the Painted Street. Usually, people end up getting painted as well! It was gorgeous weather for it this year!!! I only hope that next weekend is just as nice for Relays. Unfortunately, I don't have any pictures because I didn't want to ruin my digital camera with paint, but hopefully some of my friends will have them up soon, so I can borrow some and let everyone see them!

I had an ISEA Student Program Conference this weekend. At first I was a little apprehensive about going because I felt like I'd been through all of the sessions, but it actually turned out to be really fun, like it generally does. It's cool to get to meet new people and network. I hope that we can get our DEA chapter to be bigger in the coming years - it's just hard when the SOE is not part of the campus, and people don't want to participate in things, even when they are part of the organization...oh well.

A good thing!!! My uncle is now sitting up, awake, and they took the respirator out!!!! A step in the right direction. I just pray that things continue to improve and that there are no more setbacks.

I'm graduating in exactly 3 weeks. How scary is that!?!?

Here Today, Gone...Saturday

Ah! My hand hurts after writing for an hour and a half straight, but I am done with my finals! I turned my literacy narrative and FYS reflection in yesterday, took two finals this morning, and am just waiting for my Critical Theory professor to post the assignment on Blackboard so I can submit that paper and be finished. Tomorrow, I’m going to go observe the classroom that I’m going to be student teaching in next semester. I’m kind of excited about it, but not so excited about the school starting at 7:30 am part. C’est la vie. One more step till I actually have to be an adult and part of the real world…

On another note, Drake Dance Team is in the Times Delphic today! This is the first campus publicity we’ve had. The pictures are pretty good, though the one on the website is different from the one in the paper. Check it out here….
http://www.timesdelphic.com/media/storage/paper1086/news/2006/12/14/News/Dressed.In.Blue.Dance.Team.Wishes.Crowd.Good.Luck-2551754.shtml?norewrite200612141447&sourcedomain=www.timesdelphic.com

I need to start packing, though at the moment that seems like a really daunting task…

The Papers are Finished!!!

I am finally done with my papers!!!! I have been working on my Literacy Narrative for English 183 since September. Finally, after four months, three completely different drafts, multiple revisions and many many hours, I have finished it!!! It is 25 pages long, and has gone in a direction I was never planning on it going when I started writing it, but it’s actually kind of interesting. I feel like I learned a lot about myself as a student and as a future educator…. It’s the last paper I’ll have to write for awhile, and the longest one I’ve ever had to write, not to mention the only paper I’ve ever spent four months on…

My paper for Critical Theory is finished as well, at least I think it is. It’s a psychoanalysis of the system of Education. Again, it’s actually kind of interesting how much the multiple theories of Psychoanalysis can be used to explain a system like education. One of my Education professors told me I should send the paper in to an Education journal and see if I can get it published… maybe not the whole thing, but pieces. We’ll see, that would be really cool though – to be published in an Education journal before I graduated.

Right now, I’m just trying to get through this week before I go home. I was able to get my Education finals moved so I can go home and be with my family for Christmas, since we’re celebrating it on the 17th. I realize I’m fortunate to have professors who understand, but I’m glad they’re letting me take my finals early! Drake Dance Team is performing this Tuesday at the boys’ basketball game, which I’m really excited about! Five more days before break begins for me, then student teaching in January…