Presentations and quarter ending

This week, I had a presentation in my ASL class on monday. The topic was on the National Association of the Deaf (NAD). What is the NAD. It is an association that works for deaf people's civil and legal right. I did a PowerPoint that consisted of topics from the NAD. It was a great success. Now we have finals coming up. I am actually excited to see that I can take my health final with as many attempts as I want to. It so convenient to do it online.

Sociology has been easy. Dr. Ludwig, our professor, had a stroke a few years back and the first day we met him, it was interesting. If you knew how strokes affect the speech area of the brain, you would understand. The first day of class, he asked us a question about first impressions of people. This is what he said, "If I were to come up to you in downtown Portland, wearing dirty clothes that made me look homeless, what would you think of me?" Nobody answered. So he asked again, "Anyone, anyone?" So I raised my hand and he said, "Yes, what would you think of me?" My response was, "I would think that you are retarded." Everyone laughed. He then said, "That's what society percieves us as, what 'we' as people, think we are." But I already knew that he was that way, because Trina took his class last quarter. So, I was already expecting it.

Health, we had been punished for not exercising. So, Laura, our professor had us play volleyball across the street from the college. It didn't help that is was terribly muggy, but it was fun. Our last class is tomorrow (Thursday).

Tim (my partner in crime) in Cub Scouts (we lead the Bears) got stuck up in Tacoma and couldn't make it in time for scouts. I just worked on a few things with the boys. Next week, we have a cop that is in our ward (Church) that we can fingerprint the boys and my mother-in-law has some plaster we can use to make footprints. Oh I have a feeling that this will be messy. We can probably work on this stuff outside, out in the pavilion (covered picnic area on our church property).

Kaylee has until the 22nd to be out of school. She would have gotten out of school earlier if it wasn't for the stupid snow storm we had in December, the most measured snow ever recorded all the way from Seattle to Eugene. We got a total accumulation of 22 inches stretched out over a week. Good thing it was gone after a day. So they made the kids make up a few days, which I think is crap. I only had ONE snow day my entire life. Kaylee in Kindergarten, alone, had a week. We only had snow one day and it was nothing. The reason is because Mt. Livingston still had snow and that's why they canceled school for that week. Another bummer for the following years to come is this will be Kaylee's last year riding the bus. We live two blocks from her school, and the district is doing budget cuts and buses was one of them. If you live farther than a mile from the school, you can still ride the bus. I told Kaylee that at least she got to experience riding the bus to school.

I'm excited for school to be over with. My Summer and Fall schedule is a lot better than my Spring schedule. two days of school instead of five. When she visits, my grandma wants to ride the steamboat that goes up and down the Columbia. It sounds enlightening.