I am so glad that we only have one more week of class. I can’t believe that we have already finished 9 weeks. It’s even harder to believe that the fall semester is just a few weeks away. Where did the summer go? I really don’t have that much to report this week. I haven’t really done much of anything. I took my two finals for Anatomy this week. The tests were on Tuesday and Wednesday, so the first part of my week was consumed with studying. It didn’t do much good though, because I ended up getting a B in the class. I had to get a low A on the final to keep my A in the class and I guess I was unable to do that because she emailed my B to me on Thursday. I really hate that I got a B, but I’m glad that I have finally completed the class. I spent the end of my week recuperating from all the studying. And, as usual, I also worked all weekend. I didn’t go anywhere or do anything fun this weekend, but I rented a really good movie. “A Walk to Remember” is the name of the movie that I rented. It’s the movie with Mandy Moore in it and it was wonderful. I was really surprised that the movie was as good as it was because she’s a singer, not an actress. I really recommend it to anyone. It was one of the best movies that I have seen in a really long time. I cried from the middle of the movie until the end, without stopping. I think that is why I thought it was so wonderful because I love a movie that gives you a good cry. My boyfriend thinks that I crazy for liking sad movies, but I think it’s a girl thing.

Besides all that, I also did a little bit of CD homework. “Little bit” is the operative term in the sentence, because that’s all I did. I did all of the required assignments but I really needed to do much more than I did. I had intended to do a lot of revisions this week, but I didn’t get around to it. Now, I wish I had started on the revisions because I have a lot of work to do to complete the MRP at the end of next week. This week I conducted some peer reviews of Lekei, Mary, and Emily’s work from last week, wrote and published (or will publish) my reflection section, and organized my blog site.

This week the peer revisions were a little different than they have been in the past. Most of the information that I was reviewing was personal information so I didn’t have much to say to help improve their work. I thought that because the information was personal they would include and exclude all the information that they wanted in the sections and it would be useless for me to tell them to put something into their section that they didn’t want to include. But it was still nice to look at read their work.

The next thing that I did for CD this week was the reflection section. This was a little bit more difficult to complete. It has been a really long time since I have done a reflection section to an assignment so I was a little rusty about what to include in the content, process and premise section. I tried to find a “What is Reflection?” posting on the weblog, but I couldn’t find one so I decided to wing it. I tried to include everything that I usually do but I’m not sure if I did or not. I usually do really well on the reflection sections of assignments, but for the life of me I couldn’t remember how I usually do the reflections. I think that I included everything that I needed and I wrote everything that came to my mind, so, hopefully, I did ok.

Next, I organized my weblog. This was a very tedious job. It took me forever to get all the codes punched in correctly. Completing this section is my favorite thing that I have learned during this semester. It may not be the most useful, considering that I learned a lot about things that are directly connected to being an SLP, but it’s the funniest. I feel so smart and important when I punch a code in and a link pops up. I don’t know why I get so excited, but I do. I think it’s because I never knew anything at all about computers before I took this class. Now, I know how easy it is to make links, and blogs. I even know how to chat on-line. I know it sounds pathetic, but I’ve never done that before this class. I really feel much more confident on the computer now. I know that we haven’t went over half of the things that you are capable of on the computer, but now I think that I can do anything that I feel necessary. At least, when it comes to weblinks, blogs, and even webpages. I know we haven’t done a webpage, but how hard could it be? I think that as long as I had a little set of codes in front of me, I could create one, and as soon as I get a chance I’m going to try. The only problem that I have is where to get the codes, but I’m sure you can search the Internet and get a whole list of HTML codes. I know that it is a very simple task to type in a code from a sheet of paper, but I really feel awesome because of this newfound knowledge. I didn’t know about this sheet of codes before taking this class. I have heard about HTML but I didn’t know that I would be able to utilize this code if I saw a sheet of paper about it. This has been a long, trying semester, but I am really glad that I took the class. I have really gained a lot of knowledge in this class. I just wonder what’s in store for me in the fall. There is a lot of work involved in this class; I don’t know how everyone is going to be able to handle this class in the fall semester. I’m really, really glad that I decided to take it in the summer.

I am very close to completing my MRP, but I’ve got a lot of work to do before it’s ready to turn in next week. Revisions to individual pieces are all that I have to do, but that will take a long time. I’m going to quit writing this weekly journal so that I will have time to get it all finished.

I hope you have a wonderful trip this week!!