Hello, there. It's Tuesday in California! Happy Tuesday!
... Yes. Anyway. Like I said in my last blogpost, I'll start off by telling you about my weekend. Which was pretty busy...
On Friday morning, I taught my PHE workshop at a high school in downtown LA. It was really interesting, because the school was actually just two floors of an office building in the middle of the city! To get to the school you had to enter the building and take the elevator up to the third or fourth floor. I felt like I was being tricked into going for a job interview, or... Something. Thank goodness that wasn't the case! Haha. It turns out each graduating class was extremely small, at most 35 to 40 students... So I suppose the small size of the school was justified, in a way. Still though... School in an office building? I don't know if I would have liked that.
... I wonder how they do physical education.
Oh yes and, I taught with a girl from UCLA. The last time I taught with someone from UCLA, she was really obnoxious and imposing and aggressive. Thankfully, the girl from this week was lovely, she was kind and nonjudging, which was a huge relief. Apparently I'm teaching with her again this coming Friday, which I look forward to greatly! ^_^
Friday afternoon I had a three hour training course that ended with the result of me now being officially certified to do blood pressure readings! Yes. If you provide me with a stethoscope and a sphygomanometer and all of the extraneous materials one requires to conduct this test, then I can tell you what your blood pressure is, and what that means in terms of if you have high blood pressure or are at risk of having high blood pressure (which is also known as hypertension).
Yay!
On Saturday, I had two exam reviews, one from 13 to 15:00, and one from 16 to 18:00. I was really hungry in between the two but then decided I didn't have enough time to eat a legitimate meal, so I made myself oatmeal and brought it to the second exam review session in a flask. ^_^
I don't really know if anyone thought I was strange for it, all I know is that it was delicious and I enjoyed it very much. Oatmeal is a great food. :D
On Sunday, of course, it was the Superbowl! But I had a lot of work to do, and so did all of my friends, but at the same time they all really wanted to watch it. As a compromise, Ivanna, our friend Jordan, and I went to Cameron's apartment and watched the Superbowl there, WHILE working. It was great multitasking. Though honestly, as I don't really follow the NFL, I wasn't watching the game too closely anyway. As a result, I got a ton of work done, all while watching the Superbowl with some of my best friends at USC. Wonderful. ^_^
Yesterday, yesterday being Monday, I attended a training/orientation session for exploreUSC hosting, which is essentially a program where current USC students host prospective USC students (ie students who have already been accepted to universities and are now choosing which one they will attend) for an evening, night, and morning, showing them around campus, showing them what it's like to be a student at USC, and just generally letting them get to know the school. We take them to dinner and breakfast at a dining hall, escort them to an evening university-hosted activity and show, and... I believe that covers our duties. In any event, I'm signed up for one night of exploreUSC hosting, so I'm looking forward to getting to know a prospective Trojan and showing them why I love my school! :D
Today is Tuesday 8 February 2011, and this morning I picked up my assignment information from JEP (Joint Educational Project). Every Tuesday and Thursday from next week until mid April, I'm going to be mentoring a small group of second graders at 32nd Street School, which is right next to the USC campus. I'm so so so excited for my first day; I love second graders! ^____^ I'll let you know how it goes!
Also, today I had my first chemistry exam of this semester.
(studying for the exam...)
I can honestly say that I think this chemistry exam was the absolute, hands-down BEST exam of my entire university career so far!!! Granted, this is maybe my fourth time learning the same material over again, but still, I feel so accomplished right now. I'm super excited to get my grade back, I'm sure I did great, and given the curve, hopefully exceptionally well!
Speaking of grades, that Psychology exam I had... The grades were put up last night, and I did above average, but at the same time not as great as I thought I had. I would have gotten a better grade if the class grades were curved, but unfortunately they are not for this class... It's okay though! I still did alright, and I'll just do extremely well for the rest of the semester to make up for it! I'm still confident that I can get at least a B+ for this course! ^_^
Well, now I have a lot of reading to finish for tomorrow, as well as studying to do for a biology exam I have on Thursday, so off I go to do that!
Blog again soon,
michelle. xx
