thanksgiving

The past week i had been home for Thanksgiving break. It was a real good weekend, I spent a lot of time with my family and friends. On Thanksgiving I went to my aunts house where I had a great meal and watched a lot of football with my family. Then every other day stayed in till the night and then went out later on with my friends and enjoyed being back at home with them. One of my friends that goes to USAFA in Colorado was even home, I had not seen him in about 6 months so that was really good. Overall the week was great and I can not wait to go home for winter break and see my family and friends again.

Wow today is the last day before the thanksgiving break even though I am a commuter I finally get to just go home and not have to think about school for a couple of days. By the time sunday comes I will most likely do all of my home work even though I have said to my self that I would do it in the begining of the break. I know that that won't happen because I will be to busy being with my family.

happy birthday

thats right its my birthday but its no big deal tomorrow am one year closer to being out of the teens era. its kind of funny even though am turning 19 tomorrow it has not phased me yet guess am gonna go through my birthday not even feeling it. i also dont think it is a smart idea to cath up on my blogs all on one day so ill save some for after my birthday so i can have a couple more stories to tell and i also wish everyone else whos birthday it is today a very very happy birthday and to enjoy it it only comes around ones a year.

getting back on track

i got all my essays back and see that am not doing all that good i need to step it up but hey i know i can do it. 2 D's and a C not sure but i think i earned them and does are grades i don't want. i thought i had a pretty solid grasp on English guess i was wrong but i think i still have some time to make up my grades oh yea and on top of that my other classes aint so great ether but i see the light first step to fixing a problem is recognizing u have one.

ouch only 3 blogs

i have been slacking lately not sure why but i have to get back on track one month left and its all over. hope i dont fail this class but i have seen better days i went through a pretty heavy weekend that opened my eyes to what i was doing wrong. i told both my mother and my brother about my grades and they took me on a little field trip to go see a couple of people lets just say these people should me its not a good idea to slack it ends up being ten times harder than acctually putting in the work.

I can't believe it is Thanksgiving already this semester has flown by just like when I flew down to New Haven. That went by really quick and the air trafic controllers were talking so much to me and other planes I didn't know what went on half of the time. I am finally ready for my solo cross counrty trip, that will be eventful. i don't understand why they call it a cross country though it only is going to be about fifty miles so its not really that far. Thanksgiving being already hear is great I get to see my entire family and go to my home town football game in the rivals town of Westspringfield MA. Thats going to be great seeing old friends. This short week of only two days will be great I will be able to work so that I can have money to buy christmass gifts and such.

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I might have to work over Thanksgiving break, but I need the money for Christmas and other things so I want to work as much as I can while I am home. I do not have a job here at school yet, but I want to find one soon. I feel like it is hard to find one on campus because the majority of the jobs are for the work study students. I do not have a car on campus yet so I don't want to get a job off-campus and have to rely on the bus.
At home, I work at the Old Navy in the mall near my house. The job itself is easy, but I do not suggest working in retail to anyone. The customers my co-workers and I come in contact with are, a lot of the time, ridiculous and not very understanding or friendly. Customers also get crazy if they think something is on sale when it actually isn't, just because they misread a sign they blame it on the store. Returns are especially hard to deal with because people do not understand the concept of saving a receipt or a tag and that something cannot be returned like a year later.

Blog 9

I'm leaving on Tuesday for Thanksgiving break, it will be nice to have a break from classes and to see my family, boyfriend, and friends. Thanksgiving day is at my house every year. This year it is going to be different because it will be smaller. Only my brother, his wife and his kids will be there with my family. Usually my brother and all my sisters and their kids, my nieces and nephew, are there. But, this year my two sisters are going to spend Thanksgiving with their mother in Pennsylvania. Also, my uncles are taking their turn spending Thanksgiving with their wives side of the family. So, next year there will be almost everyone at my house. My mom goes to such hard work to make sure everything is perfect on any holiday so I wish everyone was coming this year so that they can all enjoy the hard work she goes to, from the decorations to food.

This week I have to write three seperate essay. This week i have to dedicated to writing my essays. The good news about this week is that its one more week till the holiday days.

Uneventful

Nothing happened this weekend at all. I went home, and pretty just caught up with my family. Just some good old fashion talking-time. The Pats losing kinda did put a damper over the whole weekend but oh well, what are ya gonna do, right.

Friends

Ever since I have been attending Westfield State College i have made a few new close friends. Between Ethan, Champ, Curt, Aaron,JJ and Ty i feel very safe on campus. I Know that i have kids at School to keep an eye out for me and that makes me feel very good. For instance I almost got in a fight the other day and they all were there to back me. They can also be sure that I will always be there to back them up... it is mutual. I know I will always have my friends from home but it feels good knowing a have a good set of friends at school as well.

This week I had a couple of midterms. This week also went by fasts because of the holiday. classes were cancelled on tuesday which gave me time to catch up on my homework. The semester is coming to a close and I have been assigned a lot of homework. For the rest of the week I'm most likely going to be finishing up on my class assignment.

Microeconomics is horible my teacher looks like he is about to die he is so old. He does a bad job teaching and keeping me interested in class. Yes there is one good thing that he does not give tests or a final but I have no idea what he is grading us on. This class is getting to be a problem because I don't think that I am learning much and I don't now how I can have a grade in this class to tell me if I learned or not.

Math Problems

So we started derivatives in my Calculus I class. For some reason their not very hard to grasp but when letters start replacing numbers and their become more numbers than actual letters things get pretty confusing. I think I may get the hang of it surprisingly. It actually pretty interesting when you get down to the nitty gritty.

Basketball

Recently at school i was invited to play on an intramural basketball team.  I was very exited when i was asked to play because I had always loved playing basketball but I did not want to try out for the schools team. Now I have a way to play without a huge commitment. 

We have had our first regular season game in which we won. I played a decent game, grabbing a few rebounds and playing some good defense. I struggled a little on the offensive end of the court but thats nothing a little shooting around in the gym cant fix. Im very exited to be on the team and im looking forward to the rest of the season.

The days

It was 5:00 am and i was a slave till 3pm. Today was a day that i had to walk, asking for help is a sign of weakness in the eyes of my father so who was I to walk a different road, I would never ask my mom to wake up at that hour to give me a ride to work; so i walked. I timed myself before so i knew that it would take approximatly 13 minutes to get to work and yet... three minutes in my hands were numb and the rain that should have been snow felt like thousands of needles against my skin. As i walk to the front of the store I question if my hands were still attached but too lazy to look i reached for the door. Going through the normal routine of work i figured today shouldnt be so bad, it's just another sunday. By 9:00 the department was all set, by 11:00 I was so board I cleaned things and by 3:00 i was free. Cant wait to do it again next week               

Weekend

This weekend was a fun weekend for me. My mom and brother came up to visit. It was a lot of fun for me to see them. My brother had never been up here before. He's 16 years old so he was really excited to see the college and to see what it is like. I showed him around and he had a blast. He had never walked around any college before so it was a fun experience for him. My mom had a good time too. I'm really glad they came up this weekend because I hadn't seen them a few months and it was nice to see them again. 

halloween

This weekend I went to a couple of halloween parties. I dressed up as the Fresh Prince. Me and My friends had a great time. This Halloween was different from the rest because I was in a new town and didn't really no the area. I still had alot of fun with all my friends.

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The weather is already getting freezing here, especially at night. Some days it will be warm and sunny with a cool breeze but then at night the temperature drops down very low. I cannot imagine how it is going to be in the winter. I am going to need heavy winter clothes just to walk to class. We will also probably get a lot of snow. I do not mind the snow it is very pretty and plus there will hopefully be some snow days!

Halloween

This year Halloween was a good time. I didn't do anything on Halloween night because I had a pre-season hockey game the next day. But it was still fun to see everybody on our hall dress up and to see my roommates dress up. It's always funny seeing what costumes people come up with and how they make them look on Halloween. Some people I saw were very creative with their outfits. Especially with everyone being on there own in college and not having money to buy costumes, most costumes had to be hand made or ended up getting thrown together at the last minute.