Friday, April 27, 2007

Being a student in the USA has been a challenge; from meeting new friends to even understanding the grading system. The most recent is being sororities, because I'm now an "Honor student" I've been officially invited to the Phi Theta Kappa - The International Honor Society. I'm trying to understand what's involved and if it's worth it for me to become a member. If I'm not mistaken there are social sororities and academic ones, this one I've been invited to is a academic one which can help members find jobs after they graduate and even scholarships are offered. I feel very honored to be invited, and if this will help me get a scholarship for my BA that will be great. I will continue researching to help my decision I have to submit the application by Wednesday. If anyone is a member please let me know of your experience.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

My classes are going really well, I'm a little overwhelmed with all the work I have with 4 classes. I'm thinking of cutting back my work schedule so I can focus more on my homework, we'll see. I'm even tutoring a woman in my class, as she's having a hard time with the work. I said I'd help her as much as I could, but if I have too much work then I'd have to stop to focus on my stuff. My name was in the local paper Saturday for the honor list, so I kept one for me and my mum.

On Saturday Clayton and I went to the Tulip Fields it was nice to get out and about, it was the first time in a long while where Clayton had a Saturday off. We went last year and had such a great time, this year we went and also stopped by the local town to look around the shops and have lunch. I found another British Tea Shop with British goodies, so I now know where to go if I need a good lift.

I'm so looking forward to May 11th I've booked myself in for lovely long hour massage at the Student massage therapy center. It's so cheap; for an hour I only pay $25, which is so good I can't wait!

Monday, April 23, 2007

I need an opinion from my readers: Today my friend offered me a good deal on a Welsh Corgi she offered me the chance of picking one out of the litter, seeming I'm Welsh she thought I'd like one. I didn't even think they were being bred over here. Anyway I'd love to have one, it's just Clayton is a little apprehensive about the small cottage we live in. I did ask the landlord and he said that it would be okay.

I guess our place is a little small for a dog, but Corgi's are small in size anyways. There's the added responsibility of having a dog. But gosh it would be so good to be active and go out seeming this area is so active around us. However there's the added problem of the animal being on it's own, well for the rest of this quarter. In the summer I'll be around a lot, but then it goes back to being unpredictable until I graduate.

I don't know, just wanted to know what everyone thought. I know it's really up to us but opinions are still nice good/bad.

Update: Clayton and I decided not to get the puppy, for a number of reasons really. Mainly because we just don't have the time, and costly. My friend said she breeds all the time and if we wanted one in the future she'd be happy to keep one for us.

Saturday, April 14, 2007

It's amazing to look back at your life and see just how much you've changed over the years. Before I met Clayton I was in a technical college not really giving a dam about education, I never liked it, when I was in comprehensive school (high school) my grades were terrible and I'd always try to get days off. But now here I am wanting to go to school, wanting to get an education and doing something I love. My hard work so far has paid off, I received a letter from the college yesterday stating that my outstanding performance last quarter (which by the way I had 2 As and a B+) has earned me recognition of "Dean's List Scholar". Which also means I can apparently apply to graduate with honors, given that my G.PA stays an average 3.50 my cum is 3.54 right now and last quarter my G.PA was 3.67. Doesn't this make you proud mother :) It makes me very proud.

Tuesday, April 03, 2007

Well it was nice while it lasted, Spring break is over and it's back to studying. My classes look really fun, but a lot of work. I'm taking Art 261 Raster Illustration- Adobe Photoshop, Art 260 Vector Illustration- Adobe Illustrator, CS120 HTML fundamentals, and Art 150 History of Photography. My whole week is comprised with Classes and work, I might have to cut back on my work during the week especially during midterm and finals. This quarter is going to be a lot of hard work, but I'm really looking forward to starting the graphic, web design aspect, as well as the photography class.

Not much else is going on, we started to take flyer's to the pawn shops to try and see if we can find the items that were stolen from us (see previous post) nothing found yet.

Oh yeah and what the hell is going on with the weather? Where is Spring? We had freaking snow on Monday!!