Yesterday I got some of the best news I've gotten in a LOOOOOONG time: my very own Mamá Tica is coming to Orlando in January!!!!!!!! I can't wait to see her and spend time with the girls! I'll be interning in January full time, but I happen to have a school holiday while she's here! Yippee! I love having things to look forward to!
More good news: I got my official internship assignment last week and I got exactly the placement that I had hoped for. Third grade at Crookshank with the best and sweetest practicum teacher I've ever had. We are going to have too much fun together...hopefully we get some teaching done. heehee
Tomorrow I teach my lesson in español. So much for my whole lesson plan on Los tres cerditos, because I scrapped that one. But no worries, it was all for a good cause. This one makes much more sense and it's going to be good! (I hope.) I'm just not looking forward to being video taped. Yuckkkkk.
I had a little too much fun making my powerpoint. I decided to use William and Kate, and plopped their heads onto random pictures of people doing all sorts of outdoorsy activities. I couldn't stop laughing when I was making it, so hopefully I don't loose my composure while teaching and roll on the floor laughing. That would be cute. Not.
Adios amigos.
Monday, October 17, 2011
Friday, October 14, 2011
viernes
Sitting in the library being real productive right now. Aka I'm blogging, on facebook, texting, eating, and talking to my girls. I'm never going to get this 10 page paper done! But I clearly don't care that much or else I would be working on it right now.
I'm teaching another lesson in Spanish next week and I'm excited. Yeah. I will be reading Los tres cerditos (The Three Little Pigs). As Professor Artz says, you're never too old to be read to! I agree.
Six days 'til the Sugarland concert! Woot woot! It's going to be soooo good.
You know you're in college when you do what I did this morning: My cardigan was stretched out from hanging up to dry, so I wet it. I dried it with my hair dryer and then I got the wrinkles out with my hair straightener! Whatever works, right?!
I'm teaching another lesson in Spanish next week and I'm excited. Yeah. I will be reading Los tres cerditos (The Three Little Pigs). As Professor Artz says, you're never too old to be read to! I agree.
Six days 'til the Sugarland concert! Woot woot! It's going to be soooo good.
You know you're in college when you do what I did this morning: My cardigan was stretched out from hanging up to dry, so I wet it. I dried it with my hair dryer and then I got the wrinkles out with my hair straightener! Whatever works, right?!
Sunday, October 9, 2011
con ojos abiertos
Hola amigos.
It is nearly 1:30 am and I have been awake since 7 am. I don't remember the last time I have been up so long. I probably shouldn't have gone for the two sodas with dinner. My bad. My eyes are wide open and I'm not even tired. This is a new record or something. I didn't even take a nap today! I'm pretty sure I did more homework today than I have done all semester. That's what I get for playing around and pretending like school doesn't exist. Time to buckle down, Morgan. Tomorrow is the half way mark--the semester is already halfway complete. Oh but so much work lies ahead--Personal Orientation Paper II, Application Project, Classroom Management Plan (HUUUUUGE project!), finishing portfolios for BOTH majors, more field research, etc, etc.
I officially don't like group work. Tomorrow is my panel presentation with my group. Last time, no one thought it was necessary to get together before hand. What is a group project when you don't work together?! One member "had absolutely no free time to meet," yet, I see her sitting in the student center twiddling her thumbs every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
This go 'round, the group seemed completely clueless that we had to present again. I mean I'm nearly always zoned out in Curriculum now-a-days, but I at least now that we have been doing panel presentations for oh, 6 weeks now! I didn't want to be the one to take charge, but no one else seemed to care, so I sent out an e-mail Thursday afternoon to figure out who would do what. It wasn't until nearly 5 pm today that everyone responded and took a part. Come on people! And what happened to sharing the information with the rest of the group?! I am the only one who e-mailed my debate questions to the group. Thanks for sending me the other questions, guys. NOT. So who's going to look bad tomorrow?! Not the rest of the group, because they will be prepared to answer my questions. It will be me who looks like a deer in the headlights when I am asked questions that I am unprepared to respond to.
But anyways, now that I've got my complaining out, I may continue. I'm pretty sure there's like a hurricane outside or something. Or it sure sounds like it. The winds have been blowing soooo hard that the pond has waves like we're at the beach or something. I'm afraid some trees are going to snap in half. The rain is blowing sideways. It's so windy that we even lost power earlier tonight! There's a 100% chance of rain tomorrow...what's going on here?!
Perhaps I shall try to go to sleep tonight. Or this morning. Right now. You know.
<3,
Morgancita
p.s. my font is blue to match the rain. jajaja :P
p.p.s no more caffeine for me; ever again.
p.p.p.s that won't happen.
It is nearly 1:30 am and I have been awake since 7 am. I don't remember the last time I have been up so long. I probably shouldn't have gone for the two sodas with dinner. My bad. My eyes are wide open and I'm not even tired. This is a new record or something. I didn't even take a nap today! I'm pretty sure I did more homework today than I have done all semester. That's what I get for playing around and pretending like school doesn't exist. Time to buckle down, Morgan. Tomorrow is the half way mark--the semester is already halfway complete. Oh but so much work lies ahead--Personal Orientation Paper II, Application Project, Classroom Management Plan (HUUUUUGE project!), finishing portfolios for BOTH majors, more field research, etc, etc.
I officially don't like group work. Tomorrow is my panel presentation with my group. Last time, no one thought it was necessary to get together before hand. What is a group project when you don't work together?! One member "had absolutely no free time to meet," yet, I see her sitting in the student center twiddling her thumbs every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.
This go 'round, the group seemed completely clueless that we had to present again. I mean I'm nearly always zoned out in Curriculum now-a-days, but I at least now that we have been doing panel presentations for oh, 6 weeks now! I didn't want to be the one to take charge, but no one else seemed to care, so I sent out an e-mail Thursday afternoon to figure out who would do what. It wasn't until nearly 5 pm today that everyone responded and took a part. Come on people! And what happened to sharing the information with the rest of the group?! I am the only one who e-mailed my debate questions to the group. Thanks for sending me the other questions, guys. NOT. So who's going to look bad tomorrow?! Not the rest of the group, because they will be prepared to answer my questions. It will be me who looks like a deer in the headlights when I am asked questions that I am unprepared to respond to.
But anyways, now that I've got my complaining out, I may continue. I'm pretty sure there's like a hurricane outside or something. Or it sure sounds like it. The winds have been blowing soooo hard that the pond has waves like we're at the beach or something. I'm afraid some trees are going to snap in half. The rain is blowing sideways. It's so windy that we even lost power earlier tonight! There's a 100% chance of rain tomorrow...what's going on here?!
Perhaps I shall try to go to sleep tonight. Or this morning. Right now. You know.
<3,
Morgancita
p.s. my font is blue to match the rain. jajaja :P
p.p.s no more caffeine for me; ever again.
p.p.p.s that won't happen.
Thursday, October 6, 2011
estoy estudiando. <---- MENTIRA
I have senioritis, and I have it BAD. I have my first linguistics exam tomorrow, and I stationed myself, my textbook, my notes, and assignments on the couch two hours ago. But then Jersey Shore came on so...
It's not like I understand linguistics anyways, so why waste my time studying?! I'm certainly not going to learn Swahili in one night.
Physical therapy kicked my butt tonight! If I wanted to work out like this, I should have just joined a gym. Let's guess how many calories I burned while biking for 2.8 miles?! Thirty-seven, that's right 37. That's not even half of a 100 calorie pack. For the energy I was exerting, 37 calories sure doesn't sound like much. Good thing I'm not counting the calories I eat!
Oh my goodness, I should have never stopped biking and running this past summer, because I have lost what little athleticism I once had. I had to lift the weights with my leg, so the trainer set it on the lightest weight (10 lbs.) All I had to do was move my leg out like kicking a soccer ball in order to lift the weight. Not bad, right?! I couldn't even make the 10-pounder budge, so I just keeled over laughing. At least my abs are getting a workout from laughing at how pathetic I am.
Definitely had a "blonde moment" today while interning. I was playing a song from the computer for an activity we were doing, but we couldn't hear anything. I made sure the speakers were plugged into the computer, they were. I made sure the wires were properly connected to each speaker, they were. I made sure the volume was on the speakers, it was. I made sure the volume was on the computers, it was. But I had neglected to plug the speakers into the electrical outlet. Oopsie daisies. It usually helps to have things plugged in if you want them to function properly. Maybe I will remember that next time I try to use technology in the classroom. Just maybe! :)
It's not like I understand linguistics anyways, so why waste my time studying?! I'm certainly not going to learn Swahili in one night.
Physical therapy kicked my butt tonight! If I wanted to work out like this, I should have just joined a gym. Let's guess how many calories I burned while biking for 2.8 miles?! Thirty-seven, that's right 37. That's not even half of a 100 calorie pack. For the energy I was exerting, 37 calories sure doesn't sound like much. Good thing I'm not counting the calories I eat!
Oh my goodness, I should have never stopped biking and running this past summer, because I have lost what little athleticism I once had. I had to lift the weights with my leg, so the trainer set it on the lightest weight (10 lbs.) All I had to do was move my leg out like kicking a soccer ball in order to lift the weight. Not bad, right?! I couldn't even make the 10-pounder budge, so I just keeled over laughing. At least my abs are getting a workout from laughing at how pathetic I am.
Definitely had a "blonde moment" today while interning. I was playing a song from the computer for an activity we were doing, but we couldn't hear anything. I made sure the speakers were plugged into the computer, they were. I made sure the wires were properly connected to each speaker, they were. I made sure the volume was on the speakers, it was. I made sure the volume was on the computers, it was. But I had neglected to plug the speakers into the electrical outlet. Oopsie daisies. It usually helps to have things plugged in if you want them to function properly. Maybe I will remember that next time I try to use technology in the classroom. Just maybe! :)
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
¡estoy la chica loca hoy!
Finally sitting in one place! For the first time in a long time, I ran around like a chicken-with its head cut off. I set a new record today...I drove back from Ponte Vedra in 12 minutes (we are not going to talk about how that happened!) I left my internship late today so I had 35 minutes to race home, change clothes, and fly out the door and back into my car to get to PT. After an intensive workout, I came home for a split second, then went to school for a leadership meeting and straight to CRU. After all that craziness, I really had little desire to stay at school any longer for CRU because I had an un-written paper on my to-do-list. But thank goodness I stayed, because CRU was just what I needed tonight. It totally put my mind at ease to spend an hour worshipping and in fellowship with my friends. Got my paper done, and now I'm back to being a bum. It's so true that if you give time, you get time.
Sunday, October 2, 2011
lavanderia
Reason #37 why Morgan should not iron: I just melted the lace off the bottom of my shirt.
Oops! Guess I should have read the "cool iron only" instructions before I ironed. My bad.
Today I ate a hamburger for the first time in 17 months (and the hamburger I ate 17 months ago was only because I was in Mexico at the time and it was hamburger or nothing.) Is it bad that I may have enjoyed the cheeseburger a little bit?! Bad vegetarian, bad girl!
Right now I'm watching TLC, but there's nothing new about that. That new show "Long Island Medium" is on, and it's just wacko. I don't know how anybody can believe this. A psychic cannot predict the future, only God! And before that, "Sister Wives" was on. What kind of religion is that? Disgusting. I don't see any benefits of living a polygamist lifestyle. But I'll get off my soapbox now.
Speaking of soapboxes, we went to the wax museum on Friday after school. Not sure why soapboxes made me think of wax, but they do! Wax people creep me out. Their eyes.
Tomorrow starts another day, and another week of school, and more work. Eww. I'm pretty sure I have senioritis. I mean, I don't even make my color coded to-do lists anymore...what's up with that?! I think Applied Linguistics is crazy business. First we are translating English into the International Phonetic Alphabet. And as if that wasn't loopy enough...Friday we started learning Swahili. If anyone can tell me why it is necessary to learn Swahili before becoming a teacher, you win the prize!
Oops! Guess I should have read the "cool iron only" instructions before I ironed. My bad.
Today I ate a hamburger for the first time in 17 months (and the hamburger I ate 17 months ago was only because I was in Mexico at the time and it was hamburger or nothing.) Is it bad that I may have enjoyed the cheeseburger a little bit?! Bad vegetarian, bad girl!
Right now I'm watching TLC, but there's nothing new about that. That new show "Long Island Medium" is on, and it's just wacko. I don't know how anybody can believe this. A psychic cannot predict the future, only God! And before that, "Sister Wives" was on. What kind of religion is that? Disgusting. I don't see any benefits of living a polygamist lifestyle. But I'll get off my soapbox now.
Speaking of soapboxes, we went to the wax museum on Friday after school. Not sure why soapboxes made me think of wax, but they do! Wax people creep me out. Their eyes.
Tomorrow starts another day, and another week of school, and more work. Eww. I'm pretty sure I have senioritis. I mean, I don't even make my color coded to-do lists anymore...what's up with that?! I think Applied Linguistics is crazy business. First we are translating English into the International Phonetic Alphabet. And as if that wasn't loopy enough...Friday we started learning Swahili. If anyone can tell me why it is necessary to learn Swahili before becoming a teacher, you win the prize!
Saturday, September 17, 2011
mi filosofía es...
I must be a good guesser tonight, because I definitely did not remember my username and password; however, I managed to get them both correct on the first try.
It has been a while since I've updated this blog. My intentions are good, but I'd hate to waste my talent writing this blog when I could use it to write papers for school. I've been in school for 2.5 weeks and have already written 7 papers. No fun Flagler College, no fun. Since when do Education majors write papers? We write lesson plans, children's books, and use glitter on every project, but papers? Welcome to my final semester, I guess.
Speaking of writing, I just finished my philosophy of teaching! I had to write my initial philosophy of teaching freshman year. I hadn't a clue what to do, but 'not to worry' they said. Our education professors ensured us that by senior year we would have a well-developed philosophy. Well, it's senior year, and I still don't know. Better said, I didn't know. Luckily once I sat down, I managed to get a few words onto the page. I've submitted it, so it's DONE. Woohoo!
That's all for now folks!
Buenas noches.
It has been a while since I've updated this blog. My intentions are good, but I'd hate to waste my talent writing this blog when I could use it to write papers for school. I've been in school for 2.5 weeks and have already written 7 papers. No fun Flagler College, no fun. Since when do Education majors write papers? We write lesson plans, children's books, and use glitter on every project, but papers? Welcome to my final semester, I guess.
Speaking of writing, I just finished my philosophy of teaching! I had to write my initial philosophy of teaching freshman year. I hadn't a clue what to do, but 'not to worry' they said. Our education professors ensured us that by senior year we would have a well-developed philosophy. Well, it's senior year, and I still don't know. Better said, I didn't know. Luckily once I sat down, I managed to get a few words onto the page. I've submitted it, so it's DONE. Woohoo!
That's all for now folks!
Buenas noches.
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