People always tell me that the older you get, the faster time goes. I'm going to have to say I believe it, because it doesn't seem that long ago that I was moving in.
I haven't posted in forever (literally a month) so here's to making up for lost time!
I got through finals alive, did pretty well overall, and had a very low-key break (which I probably needed). I spent lots of time with my family, headed up to Auburn for a couple days and got to see friends, and did senior pictures for a guy from my high school.
My family and I spend some time in downtown Portland eating at the food trucks :)
My lunch
We're obviously not used to the sun :P
Yum yum!
My dad and I completed this 550 piece puzzle. We couldn't give up once we started.
My dad took me out to lunch and we continued to explore all the ethnic food in the world.
Buy one, get one for 99 cents? Couldn't pass it up :)
Here are a couple of the photos I did for my friend, Tyler.
It rained and was FREEZING, but he was a good sport :)
I miss taking photos, and I definitely missed my camera!
(I accidentally left it at home for almost a month. It was horrible!)
These trees are awful for my allergies, but they're so pretty!
I obviously had too much time by myself.
So I have lots of pictures like these....... :)
I also got the chance, courtesy of my wonderful mom and the SLP (speech-language pathologist) at her school, to job shadow during the week I was home! It was a really great opportunity to see what a typical day in the life of an elementary speech pathologist is like, and to assess my level of interest once I had that information. Luckily, it's everything I was expecting and more, so I'm going to keep heading down the path I'm on. :)
So at the conclusion of spring break, I headed back up to WWU. The day before the quarter started (last week), I had education program meetings alllllll day. It was very time-consuming, but orientations are important I guess. And they were mandatory :P
This quarter I'm taking intro to teaching (so far very interesting, and it will for sure keep me busy!), lifespan development (also very intriguing, prepare to hear more about that one for sure), and Spanish. Only 15 credits, but they make for a crazy schedule!
Yellow - homework, orange and pink = tests and major assignments.
Blue = my one day off.
I hope you feel adequately updated on my life, if that was your goal when you started reading this!
I'll leave you with my interesting thought of the day: have you ever thought about how genuinely amazing the process of learning to speak is? Almost everyone in the world learns to do it, and it's expected, but the process itself is completely mind-blowing. The amount of memory and recall ability required, the speech patterns, voice inflictions, sounds, articulations, etc. involved... it is incredible that children can achieve all that, and not with "proper" teaching, but through imitation and practice alone. As my friend Sarah said, no wonder children need naps! Their little heads need time to recuperate :)
No comments:
Post a Comment