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I’ve been working hard on it all week. My cultural report is on Japan.
Here is what I am wearing.

…even if sometimes it hurts! 🙂
I am really struggling with my JavaScript class. I don’t really know why this is so dificult for me, but it is. I have made some new friends in this class since we have study groups to help us by working together. I fear that I may need to take this class again. I guess it has been too long since my programming logic class back in 2003. I am going to work hard and try my best to learn it, even studying on my own with tutorials and a variety of helps, in hopes of finding something that makes me really understand what I am doing. I will get this!

I have several major projects in the works right now. I have English Comp with a technical focus, with a large research project that I am workign on. I am our group’s project manager. I have three major assignments coming up in “Interpersonal Relationships”. Next Saturday I have to give a Power Point Presentation about the culture of Japan. I am to dress up in Japanese attire, bring Japanese food and have a 10 minute long slide show about the culture of Japan. We also have a big writing project in that class 3-5 pages on “If I had one hour to live, what would make it a happy one”. My new class (Introduction to Flash) will be starting this month too. Whew!

I am very thankful for the opportunity to return to school and get the education that I was not able to have in my younger years. I sincerely hope that this will open doors for gainful employment in my not too distant future.

With the little bit of left over grant money I received, I purchased my first DSLR camera for my upcoming digital photography class. I am soooo excited about this! I love photography! I have books that I bought over the past couple of years about this subject, and I have enjoyed taking digital pictures with my “point and shoot” digicams for over ten years! I love graphic art too! I have played around with Jasc / Corel Paint shop Pro for several years. Now I am learning Adobe PhotoShop! I am thrilled! I never thought I would be able to own PhotoShop! Someday I will get various lenses to go with my new DSLR!
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I want to encourage everyone to vote for the Lakeland Community College renewal levy on Issue 1. I am thankful to be able to go to a school that offers so much and keeps it affordable. In order to keep education affordable for our area Lakeland really needs this levy to pass.

I have not had time to relax this week. School was extra stressful. I am struggling with one of my classes and it is taking a huge amount of my time to try to comprehend it. This week my wonderful son and his lovely daughters came from his Army base in Texas to visit and I have enjoyed seeing them immensely! I’m trying to balance time with school, my relationship with my wonderful man, and also with my children and family. It can be a difficult task. Loved ones are definitely worth the effort!
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I’m doing the best I know how to do in school and am hoping that my hard work and persistance pays off with a decent career that will help us all when I am through.

Wow! What a week! I had English Composition – Technical Focus. I enjoy this class. We are going to be working on a big project. We are dividing into groups to create a presentation that will make up a very large portion of our grade. There will be a lot of research involved, along with the combined talents of our group to create graphics and props to help us to make our presentation. It seems to me that this will be a very enjoyable class.

Java Script. Ummmm, this one is going to be tough! I think that the fact of my being away from school for seven years makes this class extra hard for me. I have to catch up on some things. I didn’t have XHTML and CSS so I have to pick them up on my own while I try to get this class down. A couple of my classmates and myself are meeting for a study group. Fortunately the man heading it up knows several programming languages and totally gets what is going on in this class. He is helping those of us who don’t quite “get it” yet.

E-Commerce is interesting. I’m taking it online and most of our socializing in this class is done through a message board.

I have only had one Electronic Imaging class (Photoshop). I was looking forward to this class the most and so far like it the least. We spent four hours learning how to use the Macintosh and PhotoShop interfaces. I guess I get bored too easily. 🙂 I am sure it will pick up and get more interesting as we get into it more.

Interpersonal Communications is a great class. I learn a lot by listening to our instructor and also from the input of all the students. Our class is made up of many diverse people so we get input from different backgrounds. I am learning much more in this class than just the textbook material. I think this is my favorite class.

Today I had my first class; “Interpersonal Communications”. I enjoyed the class very much. Our instructor is both interesting and entertaining. He surprised us all with his spontaneous comedic comments, yet liberally disseminated bits of knowledge and acquired wisdom gained from his international studies and wide travels as he encouraged us to open up and probe the different facets of communication.

He was funny and smart! He helped us to get to know each other in the class and to break down the uncomfortable barriers of being “new”. He brought laughter and humor as well as very interesting anecdotes from around the world, to what could well have been a very boring subject. I like the class and plan to do my best to get an A!

I decided to go back to school since I recently lost my job and can’t seem to find another one. Why not take classes to get certification in something I love doing? I’ve been playing around with websites (for fun) for years. Perhaps it is time to turn it into a career. I’m gearing up to buckle down and tackle 6 classes this semester. I am registered and enrolled and ordered my books.
I’m taking:
Principles of E-Business
English Comp – Technical Focus
JavaScript Programming 1 (Hybrid)
Electronic Imaging 1 (Adobe Photoshop)
Fundamentals of Interpersonal Communication

In Octobar I’m taking Introduction to Flash.