8 days till my WISE presentation

Gradbash was AMAZING!!! I had the time of my life and will never forget this night!!!! <3
Also, the countdown has begun, 8 days till my WISE presentation! That def means its time to hustle! I worked on a major part of my presentation today and worked on about 6 slides of my powerpoint portion of my presentation. Some of the details I'm leaving out.. they will be seen at my presentation... :-)

Success feels good!

So between last night and today, Ive had many goals happen and am pleased with results! I was able to do 4 slides for my powerpoint that I am going to use in part of my wise presentation and today, went to the gym for a couple hours with my best friend Ashley, and we did one of the most successful workouts I have done, probably within the last 4 years!! Burned about 230-240 calories!! Anyways, tomorrow I have many goals, such as turning in my job application to Adventure Bay, getting done with 4-8 slides of my powerpoint for wise and then going to Sydney's WISE presentation, my first one to evaluate!

Goals for the upcoming week

             So I have many goals of what I want for WISE and myself for the next week. By this time next week, I am hoping to have put together the audio and visuals that I want to use for my WISE presentation and complete at least half of my outline. Also, I want to try to go to my hip hop class 1 or 2 times next week, plus the dpjcc to work out for one day. I joined the new weight watchers pointsplus system this morning and my goal for this week is to lose 3 lbs.

Early Release=4 hours of babysitting + senior awards :-)

So today has been one busy day..Just got home from babysitting Kari and Claire from 12-4 and now I am finally working on WISE a lil bit and waiting for my best friend Ashley to come over. Then tonight, my family and I are going to senior awards and supposedly im getting an award, but have no idea what its for! I guess ill find out at the awards ceremony.

Lots of stuff going on..

So...this week, I am defenitely getting a sense of time management practice; babysitting 4 days this week, getting prom/grad bash arrangements figured out, beginning to work on getting together my WISE presentation, and a huge Statistics test tomorrow! Right now, I just finished writing an overview of everything I have done in WISE, like different research ive done, hands-on experiences, and interviews I have done. That way tomorrow, I can start coming up with how I am going to present this whole experience. In a few min,I am going to look for a book on public speaking and making presentations to help me prepare for speaking in front of a crowd for at least 45 min, and then I have to study for my stats test, then babysit from 3-5 pm, and then later, I am supposed to work out at the gym with my best friend Ashley.

An experience that I will never forget!!

So out of everything I have done hands-on in the WISE experience, I have to say that yesterday was one of the most incredible experiences I have ever had! I got to shadow and help the nurses out in the post-partum unit of Family Birthplace at Memorial West Hospital. So.. cool!! Got to learn how to take vitals, like heart rate and temperature on newborns and even got to help a nurse make rounds and perform these tests on the newborns themselves. I watched a nurse give 2 babies a PKU and Billyrubbin test and they were so.. cute. I remember one of them was a 5 lb, 2 oz baby girl and she was scared and wrapped her entire little hand around my finger and squeezed it so stop crying.. she was the cutest baby girl I have ever seen!  Afterwards, I watched 2 baby girls go through hearing testing. Also, I was responsible for supervising and watching out for a little baby boy named Daniel who was born april 19 and was in the jaundice infant incubator for more than an hour. On another baby boy, I watched a neonatologist do a kidney synogram on a 1-day old baby boy and he was explaining about how he has a kidney problem. It was so.. cool because I was able to observe, help, and handle the newborns and even helped get a couple of them dressed and got to feel their soft skin and those little fingers and toes. Lastly before I left, one of the nurses gave me a pamphlet about audio development in babies, and a packet that the hospital usually gives to new parents at birth, which is a booklet all about infant development, feeding, holding, bathing, health, ect. I enjoyed this incredible experience and it as really hit home about how precious a little one's life is. <3

Middle school observation and prep for Birthplace/NICU experience :-)

Yesterday was a very fun but hectic day for me. I was at school including 4th hr because Coach Love was presenting his wise presentation and then afterwards, I headed over to Falcon Cove to meet Dr.Johnson, a 7th and 8th grade science teacher at the school. I came and observed both her 7th and 8th grade classes and noticed huge differences and similiarites between the students. Her 8th grade class was so..hyper, non-compliant, and just wouldnt listen to dr.Johnson and made her raise her voice. However, the 7th graders took dr.Johnson very seriously and listened to her, followed directions, and once they got comfortable, became little chatterboxes, but were hilarious. I think the reason behind this is that the older the student is, the less likely they will listen to an adult. Younger students look at adults as "grown ups" while the older ones only refer to them as being "older than me, but not wiser." In addition to observing her class, Renae's medicaid person, Ingrid, came over and surprised us and then the two of us went to JCPenney outlet and picked out scrubs for me to wear tomorrow when I go to memorial west to shadow a nurse from birthplace and the nicu. I am so...excited!! I have been looking forward to this since January!!