Sooooo I havn't posted since my last break, really.
But I don't think I have ever been so busy with just school work in my entire life. Like I seriously wake up, go to school, come home do homework and then fall back asleep and do it all over again. At first it wasn't so bad but all of a sudden things are starting to pile up. Like this week I had a paper proposal, an Italian mid-term, my travel in Italy mid-term, tommorow I am going on an on-site visit to this town called Celano from 8:30-6:30 and then about 400 pages of reading, and I decided that I want to audition for the Actors Academy in Oceanside so I have to memorize two monologues and find someone to video tape it to send it in, which means I need to make a resume to send in. And theeeeen I have my oral exam on monday, two more midterms one of which I am scared to death of, a 5 page paper due and on Tue I have to present on a novel which I havn't even read. Oh and I bought tennis shoes so I have been running aaaaaand today I am officaly sick.
But other than that. Lifes been ok. I mean the thing that sucks is I have cut back a lot on my spending, so I havn't been going anywhere, but that also means I havn't really been doing anything so I have been kinda bored.
Well two weekends ago Charlotte visited and it was sooooooo much fun because we went all around Rome and I saw sooo much of Rome that I have never even seen! It was fablious. I finaly walked through Villa Borghesie and walked down Via Corso and went to the top of Vitorrio Emanuelle. I still havn't been to the Vatican museams though which is a total bummer. Eventualy though.
Still planing on what I am going to do not next week but the week after for my break. I know now that it will encompase Italy, I just don't know in what way.
I miss you all very much.
Oh, and I also decided, haha, that I am switching my major to Theater....
:)
Arielle
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Wow...you are busy and sick....good thing you are young....only the young can survive the pace....
ReplyDeleteAbout careers: with the future the way is looks now, you need to study for a career that will always be in demand, so Francisco says look towards the medical field...health care is not going away no matter how sour the economy gets. Ron Scott's children are struggling..excdepting for Kevin, who installs and services garage doors....Kim had to go back to work as dental hygenists?? So many people are losing their job, mostly engineers: there just isn't money for research and developement. I would think accountants will always be needed.
Theater is romantic but you could be poor all your life, with no health insurance....don't set yourself up to have a low standard of living.
Tomorrow is St. Patrick's Day...we are cooking for that , a big pot luck we give ourselves to say thank you to our selves for all the work at Whale of a Day. My deadlinbe for publisher is the 27 and for CPA the same day, 3 hrs later....then vacation plans start. It has been repeatedly impossible to purchase via on line the book we need from the major chain store in Spain...I will attempt again....we need it to plan our stays with farm families...if no success we will limp along with the 2001 edition---2010 comes out this month....but Francisco should have booked by now....oh I feel bad that I have been so busy with so many activities....
The dermo removed and sent off for biopsies 3 things today....the grow eye lash stuff really works...amaqzing but I don't think I can try it right now....very expensive.
Off to read the Good Earth and then to sleep....
I know the economy is bad.
ReplyDeleteBut I don't want to go into medicine. That is just too much like my mother...
The world will always need teachers is what I always say.
Dear Arielle,
ReplyDeleteOk, no medicine...speaking of which...on Monday I will call that doctor and see about the biopsies....what about being a pharmacist? I remember the year we were in New Zealand the only person they let imigrate to New Zealand from the USA was a 37 year Pharmacist from Redondo Beach. We would not be allowed to immigrate there. He was because they were short a pharmacist.
You do have a special quality with younger children...you are so nurturing with Sean....he must miss you a lot. I personally loved teaching....it sucks the life from you but it is fulfilling. What level?
Yesterday I was at our CPA's for the taxes. I have been with him longer than I have known Francisco and I mentioned being an accountant seems to be a job that people aren't losing or being laid off from. He didn't disagree.
We are having another St. Patrick's Day dinner today, inviting our friend Libby for dinner. She is bringing a large Mexican papaya....so if the corned beef is a failure....we will have fruit. The last time I wrote on your blog, we were fixing St. Pat's Day food for the huge Thank You for whale of a Day party. I haven't started cooking yet.
Today besides cooking, there is cleaning the house for a guest and a bit of yard trimming. I was thinking about the table setting and the fact I hadn't checked in with you or Randi lately. Then I began worrying about you and Randi so I decided to get up and send a note of to you both.
Next job is finishing the study guide/workbook for the school age children visiting the Museum....I am on making the answer key for the teacher now---tide pool prey and predator relationships, and strategies for holding on and surviving that habitat. Who wants to eat a sea hare? My online advanced seaches brought to some scientific sites...one researcher actually put a sea hare in his mouth and describe that to the other scientists......I have had Jim Peppers in Greece and the the curator here proofread for grammar, etc., and I've had a geologist read the 2-3 pages on that subject for accuracy......what an effort and after it goes to publisher, it will be field tested by real teachers....they are such a PICKY bunch!!!!!
But I have learned a lot and one important lesson is to say no to future requests to do projects.
Your classes are so diverse. You are really learning a lot. But your schedule does seem intense.
One of the ladies I met in New Neighbors up here has since left...her husband launches satellites so he goes where the work is and after he finished the contract here in the USA they went back to Canada and he was hired by France...so they are living in Toulouse...going to be in Cannes during our vacation dates and offered their place in Toulouse or come and stay with them in Cannes because her husband rented a 3 bedroom villa there for the month---I barely know her---we are email friends...she is in Toronto now, helping her daughter with the new born twins....Barbara and her husband both became whale boat naurualists, like I did, when they were here but I got to know her in New Neighbors when we worked together with the Japanese ladies, helping them practice English. We keep in touch about whales and about book clubs---as she joined one in France ...she quilts and they tent camp around Europe....she suggested looking on line in Lonely PLanet for the cheapt sleeps (when I asked about cheap sleeps) or using their places....isn't that sweet? She has studied French, us, no. Of course we won't accept her inviation.
Any suggestion re cheap sleeps around Barcelona? We are not staying IN Barcelona this visit.
Wow, this short note took on a life of its own.
I hope you are well and that Spring in Rome is a s sweet as it seems in my head,
Your adoring aunt,
Stephanie