Saturday, June 21, 2003 :::
Last Night
that was a LONG overnight on the ambulance. Next time you and I have to grab beds - the couch is small.. but haha no longer quite the newbie now that you have had your first real call. Adreneline is fun isnt it? Just wait until your first code..
::: posted at 2:08 PM
Friday, June 20, 2003 :::
Back home finally
I know I still owe you two words of the day from the reading - I promise as soon as I start to unpack and find the little piece of paper that it is on I will post it.
no I cant believe our wonderful president either. But .. then again we should have expected this (see the comment I left you).
and yes tonight is going to be fun.. Have to remember to borrow a harness.. and someone sooo deserves what he is getting this evening :)
Definately I, and possibly you are so going here. Probably going to go on the first day of the expo. If you are over 18 you can go - go to the site and register for a free expo pass. Wander around and get free stuff :)
::waves @ cody:: Dont forget to send me your email and im address!! oh and the archives should work now...
Ok - need to finish up grades for bedford... ::goes back to grading::
::: posted at 7:29 AM
Tuesday, June 17, 2003 :::
Day 5
too tired to write.. will update all tomorrow
::: posted at 11:31 PM
Monday, June 16, 2003 :::
Day 4 (almost)
Well reading part of the day is done. This afternoon they finally put me back on foreward reading - so here are my totals for the day - 15 packs back read and 8 packs forward read.
Word of the Day: Mattiod - person on borderline between sanity and insanity...
definately a good word of the day!
More to come later - off for a walk..
::: posted at 4:49 PM
Sunday, June 15, 2003 :::
Day 3
ok - first need to catch up on some stuff from yesterday :
Word of the day: pococurante - Indifferent or nonchallant
Secondly I found this poem in the back of a book and thought its awsome.. I am sure some of you will agree..
A girl must be a dull thing
At least from what I've heard
A girl has just two choices,
Be a model or a nerd?!
I'm wise as well as gorgeous,
I've talent and a heart.
Others say that I must choose,
Be pretty or be smart?!
Then I'll be there exception!
The one who breaks the mold!
This girl is her own person,
So I'll never do whats told!
-Author unknown
Ok - on to today -
Word of the Day: gauleiter - overbearing weilder of petty authority.
Today was kinda cool... I spent 3 hours tonight teaching teachers about teaching with object draw and showing off a little of my phase I phase II assignments. People thought it was really cool and its a good indication of how much when I was only supposed to be there for two hours and ended up doing it for 3! Thank you for the code.. it made all the difference!
Also - reading count - read two regular packs today and backread another 10. :) onward and upward. I am exausted.. sleep the sheep is definately coming with me tomorrow. Night All..
::: posted at 11:31 PM
Day 3...Kinda
Not quite done yet.. setting up to make a presentation - I am going to be showing off objectdraw as well as some of my assignments and phase I/phase II kinda stuff..
Also going to play with bluej and some other things for the teachers here..Why do I volunteer to get myself into these things?
::: posted at 6:43 PM
Day 2
Started to ramp up to speed today. Graded 10 packets (25 tests per pack - you do the math). That number is going to go up a lot over the course of the week though. Because I read so fast the leaders wanted to "backread" one of the packs I did so that they could make sure that I didnt do something consistantly wrong - that would mean a lot of changes that would have to be fixed in things that were already graded. So after lunch Janet (one of my leaders) had me take a walk, and try not to grade for a while until she went through one of my packs.. it took her like an hour to actually get through it (other people kept asking her questions) but she eventually figured out that I was all good. (I even found some errors with the other leader's solutions) :)
So hopefully tomorrow I will get a chance to work at full speed all day and therefore get a good count for you. Last year at the end I was reading about 16 - 20 packs a day.. lets see if I can get to that speed again (just so you know the average reader does about 8 packs a day if they are decent).
I dont have th word of the day for you right now - I wrote it down, but left the piece of paper in the grading room - will post it with tomorrows word tomorrow.. I did however find a really cool poem in the back of one of the books. I copied it down and will post it here. The person (girl) was apparently done early and wrote some extra comments to the grader. I also found a book that had pictures of fish drawn on every page.. and it had little signs talking about muffins.. and even had a sheep on one page.. was that someones? (I dont see names)
Anyway - thats enough for tonight - need sleep.. went out and did the "circuit" at clemson with a grad.. she knew all the local spots.. :)
::: posted at 12:03 AM
