This week I started my last fall semester at GVSU. I'm pretty pumped about it, but also not sure if I'm ready for all the things that I will have to do this semester. I hope I can handle it all.
My last week of summer was pretty stressful, I took a physiology class over the summer and didn't do well in it. I knew I would have to retake the class, but wasn't prepared to get an email the week before classes that said I had to drop one of classed. I was freaking out! Banner wouldn't let me sign up for the class and I felt like everything was falling apart. But luckily everything has been sorted out and I am currently retaking the class again this semester. This time things will go much better. It has to.
I am only have 13 credits, but I have 5 classes! Each class seems like it will have it's fair share of being time consuming. I am taking a special populations class for exercise testing and prescription. It's pretty simila to a few other classes I have had where we make exercise prescriptions for people in class. But this class seems to be focusing on applying our knowledge to people that we will actually see in the workfield. People who are not "normal, healthy adults". (This is what my prof. describe special pops as. It's kinda silly). I'm also taking my capstone class. It's an SWS so that means A TON of writting, which I'm not really looking forward too. But hopefully it won't be as bad as I think it will. It actually sounds like a pretty interesting and useful class. To be honest, I've always thought capstone classes were going to be boing and not that useful. This prof. seems to really want us to be prepared for the workfield. She wants to bring in people with different jobs and give us a chance to see what is out there that we can do with our degrees. I'm taking an ECG course this semester too. I would have really liked to do my internship in cardiac rehab, but two of the places I have applied, I got rejected. And now that I have two classes I need to take in the winter semester along with an internship, I'm not sure I want to have such a big internship. I would love it, but I just won't have the time. I'm still going to take the class. It's sounds pretty interesting and maybe it won't heart to have the skills from that class. The last class I have is fieldwork. I had my first day today. I'll be at the YMCA - Visser family. It seems like it's going to be a great learning experience and I can't wait to see what else it has in store for me.
Other than school things, it's kind of been the same ol' same ol'. My few weeks of summer were...well, short. It was about 2.5 weeks and it went by fast. The first week Robbie was sick so I was taking care of him, then I got sick. Then I worked through out the week and finished up volunteering with Spectrum PT's. Last week was packed with things. I worked two days of the week, then on Wednesday we went to Holland and just walked around a bit, in and out of shops. It wasn't super exciting but it was nice to get out of the apartment and just enjoy hanging out with each. To end our trip we went to New Hollanding Brewing Co. We got some beer chips and beer/whiskey cheese, and a few other things that were pretty tastey. And of course we each had a few beers. The next day we headed to Kalamazoo to visit some good friends of ours, and see their new place. It was fun and nice to hang out for the day. It's not always easy to find good times to get together because they have two kiddos and are always up to fun actvities and we have always been doing school things. We just hung around at their home for a while, went for a walk around their neighborhood and checked out one of the playgrounds. We didn't stay long at the play ground because some little punks were talking about gang banggers...those weirdos. Then we went back to their place and had pizza for dinner soon after. We played around with the kids for a while. They seem to always enjoy having us around. It's pretty great to know we have made such an impression on them. :) Then the kids went to bed and we just chatted for a bit and went home.
Oh, and one last pretty exciting thing that has happened recently. Robbie graduated from college. He won't start work until next Tuesday. But it's pretty exciting. I'm excited for him, he is going to do great things things as an engineer. :)
-Quebs
