oh me oh me oh my

Hello all my faithful readers...haha. I have a feeling you all might be more faithful readers if I were a more faithful writer. haha! I am posting on my dad's sweet laptop. So that means that I'm actually writing, not typing. Let's see, I have lots to write about: babysitting, Akron orientation Relay for life, all kinds of crazy stuff.

Okey dokey. Babysitting has been going really well. I really enjoy it, Ella and Riley are really good, and the dogs aren't bad. haha. Plus they're super flexible about how crazy life is, as shall be demonstrated below. Not to mention the pay's not bad... : - )

Let's see then... yeah, last week was just pretty crazy. Instead of babysitting on Mon, Tues, Thurs, and Fri, I babysat long days on Tues, Wed, and Thurs, because on Fri I had orientation for postsecondary classes. Also Relay. Yeah. So, I really didn't have very much free time--to prove that, I shall demonstrate: I just put away my clean laundry, um, an hour ago, and Mom washed it on Thursday. Usually I put it away on Friday, at least!

But Friday, I had postsecondary orientation ALL DAY. 8-5. It was crazy. Lots of seminar thingies that I can't even remember what all I've learned--hopefully I remembered the important stuff. Or hopefully it'll come to mind when I need it.

The worst part was, in those nine hours, I couldn't get my classes scheduled! In the morning, they gave you this little card with checks by the placement tests you needed to take. I had no checks, because I did well enough on the SAT. However, there was a spot for a language placement test. Dad told the lady who was filling out my card that I wanted to take a Spanish class, and she said that I should tell that to my group leader. However, she didn't actually check "Language placement test." So when we got around to placement testing, the group leader was splitting up the people with and without checks. I asked her, "I want to take a Spanish class, so, I need to take a placement test for that?" She asked, "Do you have a check on your card?" I was like, "No..." And she said, ok, go with the people who have no checks. So we got our ID cards and stuff, and I asked her more about it while we were doing that. She said I should talk to my advisor about it. I'm like, ok. I considered calling Dad then, to ask what he thought, because he was in a different seminar and we were just sitting around waiting for people to finish testing. But I didn't.

So, after lunch, we went to meet with my advisor. It quickly became clear that there was no way he could schedule me for a Spanish class when we had no clue what level I was supposed to be at. So the time that was supposed to be spent scheduling classes was spent rushing off to and taking this spanish placement test. That all was a bit confusing, because on the way to the testing center he's telling me, "Make sure you meet back up after your group after this or you'll have to go through this whole orientation process again and pay the fee and everything. I'll be advising the rest of the afternoon so you'll have to come back to me at 4:15." I was like, Ok. All right. Ok.

Then the Spanish test was kind of fun. I didn't realize that I missed Spanish, but I did. It was quite entertaining and a bit challenging--but it wasn't extremely difficult, as demonstrated by the results: I tested out of 2 years of college level Spanish. That was pretty sweet--definitely the best part of a boring/confusing/hurry-up-and-wait day. So, if I pass my spanish class, I can buy the credit hours for $5 instead of $350 and up. $70 instead of at least $4900. If I have that math right, I can't quite remember. whatever.

But on my little paper with the results, there's a number for the modern languages lady. So Dad called her while we were waiting for the next session to start (back hooked up with my group). She told him some information about classes and said that there was a grammar class that was full, but the prof said he would accept a few more. So we sit through that last session about myspace/facebook safety and all the technological perks this university offers, meet up with Mom, and go see my advisor again.

And for the next 45 minutes we try to schedule two classes: a spanish class, and a social studies class that kind of has to revolve around spanish, meaning we're trying to find one Mon/Wed in the morning. That took almost 45 minutes--we're sitting there trying to find stuff listening to people saying, "Ok, have a good weekend!" "Bye!" thinking "we need to finish we need to finish we need to finish..." My advisor signed me up for an Intro to geography class and the spanish grammar class that was full. He had to override that, which he was kind of nervous about that because he wasn't supposed to...but we were glad he did. But we get down to the registrar to make everything official, and it's already closed. bummer, eh? Not to mention we didn't get the papers for the funding figured out...so we're going back tomorrow. This is where a flexible babysitting job comes in--they're fine with my sisters or mom coming over. :) but me oh my, it was complicated.

Then we went home, ate dinner, finished packing (Hannah had to pack for me during the day while I was gone) and we were off to relay, which was an adventure in itself. Lots of walking, not much sleeping...I managed to get 3 1/2 hours of sleep after staying up for something like 22 straight...yeah. So I'm tired, but Hannah and Abby stayed up ALL NIGHT, so in comparison to them I feel fine! It's great!

Lots and lots going on...it's so weird how things just keep cycling through my mind: getting together with Kay, Amy's off dance team (which is terrible) Relay, college, kid's fun day next week, getting together with friends, youth group, lack thereof, LT, dessert :-D, the friends themselves, piano (or lack thereof) ljfsowr jwoiesalklk ewajoewi.

Et cetera.

And, I'm getting a headache from staring at the screen--and perhaps from all this other stuff too? Maybe? Lack of sleep could also be a factor...hmm...at any rate, I'm going to wrap it up. good luck with reading all this. You should just read a paragraph a day and then it'll seem like I post more...haha. (or it'll last you untill she posts again~Abby)

alrighty, thank you faithful readers, press on, read some sermon notes (if you missed them, pick any one of the Phillipians ones--they're a good way to kill time without having to watch tv and if you like playing video games, you can always listen to them while you play...personally, I'm a tetris/sermon fan when I miss them. haha.)

no really. I'm done now. :-)