6 weeks down, 10 more to go! Well, this week I set out to finish the rest of week 5 assignments, and I did. I wanted to finish them because I had to or else I would not get any points for the class. I finished one of the assignments for week 6. I plan to finish the rest of them by Tuesday. I hope to finish week 6 and week 7 assignments by Friday because I am going home this weekend, and I would like to have a stress-free weekend (if that is possible). My sister-in-law is having her baby shower and so I want to enjoy myself (by the way, I am really excited about the baby—I’m going to be an aunt!!! J ). If I do not get to finish the week 7 assignments, that will not be so bad because I will have next week to work on it. I haven’t seen how much I have to do yet.
The content that I addressed this week mainly dealt with my research. I found many sites related to my project. The more I find, the more that I find this topic so interesting. I was reading my e-mails the other day, and I guy e-mailed me from my list telling me about his 4 ? year old son (I finally introduced myself to my e-mailing list this week). Everything was so interesting that he told me. His son cannot produce any novel utterances. Everything that he says has been repeated. He said he has been seen by specialists, and they said he is not autistic. They do not know what is wrong with him. They have not come up with a diagnosis for him yet. The guy said that his son will ask for pizza, but he says, “Would you like me to make you a pizza?” He says what his parents say to him when he wants pizza. I thought that was interesting.
To finish my work this week, I went up to the computer lab, as usual, with my 315 buddies, Julie and Cindy. We work on our assignments in between our classes. It is very helpful. If I have a question, I know that they can help me and vice versa. It was hard for Cindy to finish her assignments this week because she had about 100 e-mails for her list welcoming her. One person even offered her a job!
Over the course of this week, I have realized that I can handle this semester. I made an A on my Spanish test. I have finally accepted that I need to take time with my 315 work. I know that I just need to work on it when I can, and when I have other work that needs to be done, then I need to worry about it.
My only question that I have is for me. I do not know what genres I am going to work on for this week. Do I want to write my poem? Do I want to write my interview? Stay tuned to my next journal entry, and I will tell you which ones I came up with.