Guys, I have a fun story to tell you tonight! It involves Erika the Homeschooled actually going to public school! I know, right? Yeah, this one's a real thriller! It involves gym class! Hallways! Hordes of small children! Teachers unrelated to any of their students! Wow. Stay tuned for more after this short commercial break!
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This is an infomercial about a girl. It's about a girl and a professor. It's about a girl having an existential crisis three times a week. You see, this girl often passes a certain professor (we'll call him "Dr. Case") in the hallway and smiles and greets him. However, his response to her cheery greeting is a head nod, or perhaps an eyebrow twitch. This sends the girl into spirals of existential crises: "Does 'Dr. Case' hate me? Does 'Dr. Case' recognize me? Is 'Dr. Case' Eeyore as a human? Or is 'Dr. Case' just Eeyore? Why does 'Dr. Case' hate me? Does 'Dr. Case' get annoyed, walk down to his class, and announce to the students (while pounding his fist on the desk) that he's going to lecture about the wrath of God again?" And then one day the girl realized that this same story, told by "Dr. Case" would probably go like this: "So...I'm walking along, wearing one of my favorite monochromatic outfits (I can't actually tell them apart, of course), pondering the juxtaposition of Girard to Jungel in the matter of justification and atonement, when a blip crossed my line of vision. It appeared to wave, or otherwise indicate that it needed an indication of a response. I wiggled my eyebrows at it and it disappeared. Then I created a model theory of justification and atonement that incorporated Girard and Jungel, and continued on my Eeyore-like way to class, where I lectured on some topic I've already forgotten."
*******************This is the end of the infomercial. It actually wasn't an infomercial...I just wanted to tell you that story***************************
We return to our regularly scheduled programming. So, I'm taking a class here at college called Educating Exceptional Learners, and it's all about inclusive education, and incorporating general and special ed classes. One of the requirements of this class was that we students actually go to a real, live school and observe real, live kids and real, live teachers. I know, right? Wow, yes, the excitement never ceases here. This morning, our entire class descended upon several area schools. About 6 or 7 of us went to Delevan Elementary School. A classmate of mine named Heather and I hung out all day with a second grade class. It was a day filled with exciting events, just like in the books and movies! The kids learned how to do math, actually performed mathematical calculations on paper with pencils, at desks. Then they ate lunch, and went to gym class, where they ran around under the supervision of an actual gym teacher. Then they went to their classroom again (walking in a line down hallways, following their teacher) and learned more things and did more work. And then I left. So yeah. I was all like "ooh wow! a desk!" and "ooh wow! lockers!" and stuff.
I kind of probably should go back to doing homework now. Storytime over!
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Houghton: Camp Retreat and Spring Break Edition
Hello People of Persia! (and if you haven't seen VeggieTales Esther, never mind about the people of Persia thing. And if you have seen it, please read it as "Poisia". Thank you for your consideration of this salutation.)
So I am sitting in the campus, as per the usual... not doing homework cause I don't really have any...ya know, livin' the life and thinking about food. Per the usual. Anyhow, it's been kinda sorta a while since I posted last, and stuff has happened. Somewhere back in February (the 14th, 15th, and 16th I believe), was the church retreat that my family's been going to for a couple years. Tyler (a friend here at college) has a car, thus I convinced him that he would enjoy going to the retreat, and then I tagged along. See what I did there? Yeah, subtle I am not, but at least I got to go, and we all had a good time. I put pictures up on some various social media sites, so I'm just going to skip past this and move right into spring break.
Break went from Friday afternoon after work to Sunday afternoon, so it was a little over a week. I got to go to church twice, go to Awana, hang out with various friends a couple of times (I'd list them all, but is too much; I had to sum up), go to dance class, played Risk, and made food. I also read a couple of books, one of which was about 600 pages long. See, that's the problem at my house about breaks: I come back, and my siblings are reading a book series. So I either start a series that I will never finish, or I plunge myself in the middle of a series that they've already started. I guess I did both over spring break. I also guess there are worse problems to have.
Joanna and I sort of tied in Risk (as seen by the picture...photo credits to Clayton, btw). Basically, it came down to I swept over most of the board, and then it was her turn, and she would have conquered me almost completely, and then it would have been my turn and I would have had enough little army guys to conquer her. So we decided to call it a tie, in the interest of time.
Since coming back on campus, I've stayed caught up in homework, watched Frozen, watched Captain Phillips (that's a movie. It was good. Jordan, you would like it, I think), gone swimming, gone hiking, and learned (more or less) how to drive stick shift. Tomorrow is HELP day, which is where there aren't any classes, we have meetings with our advisers, and we can go to helpful information sessions. So that's making this week pretty relaxed. I'm using this time to try to get ahead in homework, because I know that it'll start piling up towards the end of this semester. So, speaking of homework, I shall close this lovely little bloggie update here and float off in search of another, productive thing to do. Like eat. Yes. Please comment and tell me about your life, specifically what you've been up to today. Goodbye!
So I am sitting in the campus, as per the usual... not doing homework cause I don't really have any...ya know, livin' the life and thinking about food. Per the usual. Anyhow, it's been kinda sorta a while since I posted last, and stuff has happened. Somewhere back in February (the 14th, 15th, and 16th I believe), was the church retreat that my family's been going to for a couple years. Tyler (a friend here at college) has a car, thus I convinced him that he would enjoy going to the retreat, and then I tagged along. See what I did there? Yeah, subtle I am not, but at least I got to go, and we all had a good time. I put pictures up on some various social media sites, so I'm just going to skip past this and move right into spring break.
Break went from Friday afternoon after work to Sunday afternoon, so it was a little over a week. I got to go to church twice, go to Awana, hang out with various friends a couple of times (I'd list them all, but is too much; I had to sum up), go to dance class, played Risk, and made food. I also read a couple of books, one of which was about 600 pages long. See, that's the problem at my house about breaks: I come back, and my siblings are reading a book series. So I either start a series that I will never finish, or I plunge myself in the middle of a series that they've already started. I guess I did both over spring break. I also guess there are worse problems to have.
Since coming back on campus, I've stayed caught up in homework, watched Frozen, watched Captain Phillips (that's a movie. It was good. Jordan, you would like it, I think), gone swimming, gone hiking, and learned (more or less) how to drive stick shift. Tomorrow is HELP day, which is where there aren't any classes, we have meetings with our advisers, and we can go to helpful information sessions. So that's making this week pretty relaxed. I'm using this time to try to get ahead in homework, because I know that it'll start piling up towards the end of this semester. So, speaking of homework, I shall close this lovely little bloggie update here and float off in search of another, productive thing to do. Like eat. Yes. Please comment and tell me about your life, specifically what you've been up to today. Goodbye!
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