A Natural at Teaching

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010 4 Comments

Today I started my new job. As most of you may know my future mother in-law owns her own homeschooling business. She recently hired me to be the study hall adviser every Wednesday. She’s hoping down the road I build enough of a rapport with the parents to teach a computer class.

In the mornings I’m in charge of six kids who are around 7-10 years old while the rest are in a morning class with my mother in-law. They have a to-do list of assignments that I have to check off, so I’m there to keep an eye on them and help them with their assignments. I’m also there to encourage them should they get restless with their homework, such as one girl did. Luckily as we got closer to lunch time she was more motivated to get her work done. After lunch I only had three little girls in my study hall while my mother in-law had afternoon class with everyone else.

I’m really happy to be working with young children. They totally brighten up my day. At lunch I sat with them and they were all seriously involved in a conversation about what would happen if you only ate Kleenx for the rest of your life. One girl, the one in the pink dress in the picture above, said, “If you only eat that you won’t get married.”

Needless to say, Wednesdays are gonna be my favorite. ♥

Week Six Monday

Monday, August 16th, 2010 1 Comment

I’ve past the halfway mark this quarter aka mid-terms were last week. Now it’s just a slide into busy-ness. I managed to get all my homework done over the weekend that was due today, but I still have plenty more for this week and next.

Today in my design layout class we started our “web design” portion of the curriculum. It entailed reading The Principles of Beautiful Web Design, which I found pretty useful despite it being a couple years old. Then we had to check out Six Revisions’ 40 Useful Photoshop Web Layout Tutorials and pick a tutorial to do. I didn’t find any of those interesting so I did Create a Dark and Sleek Web Layout Using Photoshop tutorial instead.

In addition to that tutorial, my homework assignment is to create a web design layout in Photoshop. I’m already working on one for an upcoming project, and since we’re getting two rounds of critiques on this I think it will be good to get this project out in the open. Needless to say I’m having fun at this point, hah!

In my Advanced Image Manipulation class we played around with channels, blending modes, and different ways of adding color to images. My teacher is giving out the specs for the final project which will have to do with color. Not sure what’s gonna be happening, but I’m sure it will be interesting if it’s anything like our mid-term project. We shall see.

It’s been a long day, so I’m off to cuddle in bed with my husband-to-be!

If I Were…

Tuesday, August 10th, 2010 1 Comment

I was given an excuse to blog aka Carolynne tagged me in a meme, so here I go!

- If I were a season, I’d be spring.
- If I were a month, I’d be May.
- If I were a day of the week, I’d be Friday.
- If I were a time of day, I’d be dusk.
- If I were a direction, I’d be right.
- If I were a tree, I’d be a willow tree.
- If I were a flower, I’d be a sunflower.
- If I were a fruit, I’d be a raspberry.
- If I were a land animal, I’d be a frog.
- If I were a liquid, I’d be water.
- If I were a stone, I’d be amethyst.
- If I were a tool, I’d be a ruler.
- If I were a kind of weather, I’d be comfortable and sunny.
- If I were a musical instrument, I’d be a flute.
- If I were a colour, I’d be cerulean.
- If I were a facial expression, I’d be a smile.
- If I were an emotion, I’d be giddy.
- If I were a sound, I’d be laughter.
- If I were a car, I’d be a VW New Beetle.
- If I were a food, I’d be spaghetti.
- If I were a flavour, I’d be garlic.
- If I were a scent, I’d be hand sanitizer.
- If I were an object, I’d be a computer.
- If I were a song, I’d be “Across the Universe” by The Beatles
- If I were a pair of shoes, I’d be ballet flats.
- If I were a fairy tale, I’d be The Little Mermaid.
- If I were a holiday, I’d be Halloween.

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Since I last blogged, which was quite some time ago, I’ve been a busy little bee. I came back from vacation and immediately went back to school. That week I had Bobby & Amber’s wedding to keep me busy. Even after their honeymoon and before their move kept me occupied. Here’s a little video I created for the couple since they didn’t have a videographer…

Now that their wedding is done, I have school AND my wedding to focus on. I can’t believe in just under 3 months I’m getting married. My next big task is working on invitations, which I’m designing.

In puppy news, Tucker is doing great. He’s still shy, but has opened up so much since we got him. He’s been going to puppy training at PetSmart, which is giving him a chance to socialize with other dogs. He’s proven to be a very good guard dog, being alert when people walk by the house. Him and the cats are getting better day-by-day, but Tucker still whines when the cats refuse to play with him. It’s cute.

Other than that not much to update on. Just dealing with school and trying to get wedding stuff done here and there. I’ve got some cool plans for the wedding that I can’t wait to share! Hehe surprises!