A Chance to be Heard

Yesterday I got to go down to Indianapolis with 8 of my other classmates to help promote SSACI. SSACI is Indiana's federal funding of students and they award a lot of money to help students attend college. As a student who gets funding from SSACI I was asked to come down and help lobby in the Indiana State House. It was a great experience and I was even able to tour the State house and write letters to my senator and state representative. I had a lot of fun and it was nice to see how politics around me actually work. I hope that the voices of the many students that went down to Indy are heard and that Indiana continues to support SSACI and help students with their higher education goals.

Tough Loss for the Lady Thunder

Tonight I got a chance to go see the final game for the Lady Thunder basketball team. It was a great game and it came right down to the wire but they ended up losing by two points. Their last shot just barely missed and would have sent the game into overtime. I felt bad for the seniors because it was their last regular season home game that they would every play in college. They played hard and I was glad to be there and cheer them on. GO THUNDER

The New Week

Well, its the new week and I'm starting to get used to the fact that I have 8am classes everyday. I'm going to go read to another class at Hendry Park Elementary school today in about a half hour which should be another fun trip. Also today I am going to do a lot of catch up work for my classes that I missed last week due to my surgery. I know that I have to make up a test in N. American Geography and I also have to prepare a presentation for that class. Since my English class is canceled tomorrow I'll probably use that time to take care of the work that I missed last week in that class. When I read today at Hendry Park, I'm going to be representing MSO(Multicultural Student Organization) and just try and get our name out through the community. I am really glad that I am a part of MSO and it has helped me meet new people and try new things. So this week will be a lot of make-up work and hopefully I'll get to go watch some of the sporting events going on at Trine this week!

Re-coop

Well I had my surgery on my foot and everything went well. The only down side is that now I will be on crutches for 6 weeks, I have to miss the rest of my classes this week, and I'm on some major pain killers. As you can see from the picture above I have a pretty good sized screw in my foot now which will stay there for the rest of my life. Because this is the second time I broke my foot they put it in there to give extra support. I am really glad that the snow and ice are going away because crutches on ice=slipping, and I do not like falling! So now that I'm on bed rest I'm just gonna try and read some books from my classes and try not to fall behind. Pray for good weather!

Start of a New Week

Today is the start of what is going to be a very long week. To start things off I got my test back in my eight o' clock government class. I was one of the few that got an A! This was great news for me because test with this professor are very hard for me. He does not believe in multiple choice tests so they are all Essay exams which take me at least two pages front&back to get the grade I want. After my eight o' clock I took a test in my World Civ. Class. I am pretty sure that that will be another A, I did a lot of studying this weekend for that test so i think that I was well prepared for that test. As soon as I finished that test I got the opportunity to be a celebrity reader at Hendry Park Elementary School here in Angola. I read a international version of Cinderella to Mrs. Cox class and they really enjoyed it! In fact they enjoyed it so much that I read two more books for them and we talked about them all after. They were a great group of kids and I signed up to read to another class next week. I think that having a new face in the classroom really gets kids excited and ready for the day, and as a education major I think that this was some good experience dealing with children. On Friday I got to participate in the 19th Annual MLK program here at Trine where I received first prize for my essay about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.! Well the next post will defiantly explain how my surgery went.

Bad News Bears

So the weekend is over and I got to have my meet against my friend from high school. The unfortunate part of this weekend is that I re-broke my left foot while running the 4x200 relay on Saturday at Indiana Wesleyan. The sad thing is that it was the very first event of the day so it ruined the entire meet for me. On top of that, my mom showed up to see me run about 10 min after I had run that event so she did not get to see me because she planned on watching me run the 400. From the events that I could see I team did fairly well. We a have a lot of new runners on the track team and I think in the future we will be really good. So now I have another injury and will have to stop running track this year. I am going to get a surgery which should help my foot heal quickly and prevent it from breaking again. Other than the unfortunate event at the track meet I had a great weekend. On Sunday i watched the super bowl and watched in disgust as the Steelers beat the Cardinals. I was defiantly rooting for Arizona, but they just couldn't pull it out. Well, until next time....