It's a new year- a time for change, for (personal and spiritual) growth and for learning. To challenge myself and to invest time for me. To find a new hobby and make time for it. To commit to learning even when it gets hard! To letting go To continue developing meaningful friendships To read more To have quiet time daily

This term has gone by quite fast and I'm already heading home tomorrow! I'm off for a month which is realllly nice and possibly the longest break I have ever had while in school. I'll be heading down to Vancouver for about 2 weeks which I think now will be a nice change of environment. Hopefully there wont be that much rain!

I didn't keep up with blogging as much as I would have liked but its never too late to start again :p

Soo where do I begin?

School this term has been a lot different from university. The whole term consisted of numerous assignments but the upside to that was having no exams. There was lot less notes taking and much more hands on practical experience - 3 days of class, 2 days of placement. I had the opportunity to work as a 'resource consultant' and had 2 children on my caseload where I went to go visit their childcare center, do observations to get to know the child better, establish relationship and communication with the daycare teacher and the family if possible. As well bringing activities or strategies for the classroom and the specific child to help develop their area of need. Both children were very different and each had their individual strengths and needs. It was definitely scary at first to have somewhat of a huge responsbility!:P Throughout the term, I got the chance to know both children, learn more about their interests as well as their areas of development that needed growth in, I had a better idea of what I could do. At times it was challenging to interact or to bring activites as I am not always so creative in bringing an activity that would be suited for their cognitive level and their interest. Seeing one of the child I was working with socializing and talking more was definitely rewarding. My cooperative teacher told me that you always remember the first child or children in my case that you work with. I believe this is definitly true and I think I learned more working with them than I would have just learning and not applying.


In the beginning, it was also very weird to not have to go back to Mikeys after school. I think it had become a routine; school and then work. I actually thought about getting a job in Toronto but Im glad I didn't cause I would not have had the time to do so. I'll be going back to work at MIkeys for a few days and I kinda do miss it cause its nice to see and talk to familiar faces that comes in. One of the guys that worked at Mikeys told me that I was pretty outgoing because I talk and converse with a lot of the customers. When I told him I wasn't, he didn't believe me. Maybe its in a different environment? or I am sometimes outgoing?? :P I think I am outgoing when I know you better and you kind of have to be friendly when dealing and serving customers. I am off trackkk. Anyways, I think its cause I had such a long break from working that I somewhat miss it and snacking on all the food!

Being in Waterloo was also easier to go do errands or hang out with friends because I had the convenience of a car. Though I'm not complaining. Ive been blessed to be able to live where I do, I have a bus stop thats 2 minutes away from my house that takes me straight to a subway station. I only have to transfer buses twice to go to school. It could be a lot worse having to switch from subway to bus though thats manageable too. Its nice to just sit and have someone drive you to school although there were days when the bus ride was just TOO LONG! Unfortunately I am not very productive on the bus so hopefully I can work on that next term.

I also sprained my left foot- not ankle in the beginning of the term. It did not feel good, I didn' t remember the last time I had to crawl to the bathroom or to anywhere else in my house and had to depend on other people. It was somewhat nice in the beginning having beginning do stuff for me, not going to lie :P BUt anyway, I couldn't put pressure on my left foot for a couple days which meant I couldnt really walk since I didn't know how to put walk and balance on my right foot. THe doctor said that it would take two weeks to heal and i sulked. It has now taken 3.5 months to heal and I wished I would have just been grateful with the two weeks. Its almost getting there! really this time. I can walk without the cane though I still bring it for support. My toes dont' hurt when i press down and I can more or less walk!

On a sidenote, I want to do something different next term besides school. Join a club or do something out of the ordinary. Any suggestions?

I started off this morning, dreading the day ahead. For the first time since placement started, I didn't want to go - I think it had to do more with myself and some feelings of inadequacy and also with all the assignments due next week, I just wanted to take a whole day off. A day that I could relax and do something fun without feeling screwed after - of course in reality that was not going to happen!

I guess the point of this is, it is now 8:21, there is still tons to do or rather I should do before I sleep tonight, I'm feeling a lot better from this morning. Wayne brought back Mikeys for dinner so that was delicious! You do miss it after not eating it for a while! mmm spicy pork and curry noodles! I am still feeling overwhelmed and there is still lots of expectations and tasks to do before this term is over, but there will be a light at the end of the tunnel. That sounds a bit morbid, but don't worry I'm not depressed

Also, I didn't bring my ipod today which I normally do since the bus rides are long. I was a little frustrated that I had no music to listen to but on the other hand I was so productive! I did some paper work and wrote out part of my blog..so maybe its good that I dont have my ipod all time, it gives me time to think.


This is not going to make sense to me later.

Apples

I never thought my first post after 3 years would be about apples! Its random I know, but I just have to share! I have recently discovered a huge liking to Fugi Apples! I went through stages of liking Red Delicious ( which are kind of bitter and leaves a weird taste in my mouth)and then Royal Galas ( which is still good) but now i really like Fugi, its so crisp and sweet and very thirst satisfying!!

Anyways, so I asked my housemate to pick me up some Fugi apples over the weekend. She found me some extra large fugi apples AND my mother also ended up buying me some normal fugi apples tooo.

Look at HOW BIG the extra large apple is!!

Heres to another try at blogging.

I have never really been good at writing nor do I do I always like to express my thoughts on line...but I will try to keep it up this time around.

waait for it.

it seems like everytime I try to be less careless..i end up being more careless...as much as you may be confused, it doesn't matter, but that's what it seems like this past week or maybe just more so today. There are things I do that are stupid and i know, but it's not like I WANT to do these things, so I can feel like I'm careless or have other people see me as careless and always messing up everything that I own.

Sometimes you need to do the right thing for YOURself, even if it may be against what everyone else thinks is right...just needed to write this down so I can remember..

Things that make me happy:

white chocolate mousse from tcby
chocolatee ( twix bars, carmilk, WHITe chocolate, mint choc...just choCOLATE :D
fast food..."that goes straight to your thighs.."hahaha
sleeping way too much
beautiful weather in Novemeber
walking down uptown waterloo with the sun shining and a light breeze
gelatos with maril
hanging out with rev girls and having fun even if time has passed..good memories of last year =)
knowing people are there for you despite the fact that you may not see or talk to them as much
being silly with my girls
how everyone is so indecisive haha...;)
oasis
singing in the showerr...^^
tapiocas
having fridays off :) thus 3 day weekend...EVERy weekend
snow..when it does come...and hopefully in DecEMBEr
family
YOU! =P