End of Summer Course!

Well, my summer class is officially over!! I got another A- on the final...so hopefully my grade will be okay! I have to maintain a 3.0 to keep my scholarship, though, and as of right now I have a 3.5 or 3.65...so I'm okay. a 3.0 is a 75% (YUCK!!)...I really enjoyed this class, though. The Professor was really encouraging.

Now, for my last 17 days of summer, I'm going to be ridiculously busy. This week the family that I babysit for is on vacation, so I have a LOT to get done. I have two days reserved for specific friends (Tomorrow is Leah day!! and Friday is Tyler day!!), and for today, Thursday, and Saturday I have 130 more pages of a book to read and a 5 page paper to write for my summer homework. I also need to organize the stuff I'm taking to school, pick out which clothes are going, pick out which BOOKS are going (ugh), order my textbooks, finish some scrapbooking things I've been meaning to do, clean the house for mom, AND I'm in charge of all of the meals for this week. It's been preeeetty hectic.

However, I'm really enjoying my last couple of weeks in Dodgeville. I've been getting a LOT done, and that always make me feel accomplished. Next week I babysit my normal 40 hours, and then the next week will be a four day week...I'm sure I'll be updating more often now, because I'm getting REALLY nervous about going to Cornerstone. There's really nothing to make me nervous other than leaving mom and dad, but I'm still scared senseless.

Someone once said to me "Ashley, you should feel nauseous. Not being a jerk. Feeling a bit physically ill is normal when you are feeling too many things at once. It passes once you figure a way to reconcile your old life and your new one. It is never easy for those among us who like to manage and, shall we say, control situations."

I'd say she knows me pretty well :c)

Until Next Time!!!

Pink Eye and Homesick

Well, I woke up this morning and my right eye was red and puffy. Faaaaantastic! Basically, this means that I have to go the doctor at 8 to see if I have pink eye. If I do (which I'm guessing I do) I won't be babysitting today. If I don't, I have to then drive all the way to Mineral Point and watch the kids while my eye is itching and throbbing. This shall be a joyous day! However, I suppose I'm supposed to be joyful in all circumstances...so...I'll work on that.

For now, however, I am eating a bowl of raisin bran and drinking a big glass of orange juice. Yay breakfast! Also, I'm already a little bit homesick...strange, hmm? I just keep thinking about leaving home in 37 days, that's right, 6 more days than a month, and I get a little freaked out. I'm ready to "get out there" but I'm really torn between leaving my mom and the actual "getting out there".

Anyway, that's enough babbling for now. I suppose I had better eat up and call the doctor's office.

Until Next Time!

Hey there!

So nothing has really changed since my last post, other than I've been spending pretty much all of my free time studying for the midterm. I took it today after we got back from church, and it only took me 45 minutes (the professor gave us 2 hours). It really wasn't too bad, and I'm pretty sure I did well on it. :c)

In other news, I spent the rest of my afternoon reading Wheel of Time and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. It was pretty fantastic. Then mom and dad and I watched a movie, I knitted, and now I think it's going to be time for sleep. I have to be up at 6 so I can get to work and watch the kids. Yay for 40 hour weeks!!

Until Next Time!!

It's been forever!

Well, only 44.5 more days left here in Wisconsin. It seems so strange that I'm going to be AT college in a few weeks. Honestly, I'm already starting to get a little homesick. My parents have been my best friends, my companions, my comedians, my comforts, and now it's time to spread my wings and fly. It's slightly horrifying, and yet exciting. I get to see how well the things they've taught me have sunk in. It'll be interesting to see myself in the real world.

On the other hand, my class schedule is fairly grotesque. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays will be filled with classes from 8:30 until 2:15...I have Philosophy, Communication (aka Speech. ew.), Biblical Hermeneutics and Writing in Culture. On Tuesdays I have Biology from 11-12:30, and a lab from 1:15-3:15. On Thursdays, I only have my 11-12:30 Bio class. My classes all sound REALLY interesting, though.

Finally, I've been communicating with my roommate regularly. She seems really fun, energetic, and interesting. She's planning on majoring in theater, and minoring in something in music, so even though I'm not planning on majoring/minoring in theater or music, we'll at least have all of that in common!!

Hope all is well with you!!
--Ashley

Hello there!

Well, it's official. I am now a part of the Cornerstone University class of 2013!! Yay!
I have to admit, I'm insanely excited. I'll be heading to school on August 9th...and I'm going to be taking an online class through the school this summer! w00t for getting a head a little. Anyway, that's really all there is to say...my current online classes are ridiculously challenging. We'll see how they end up :c).

Until next time!

Wow, it's been forever. :c)

To start things off, I'm glad the college hunt is done, and even more excited to know that all I'm waiting for is to see how much money various schools will give me. It's really thrilling. In 8-ish months I'll be at school! yay!

Secondly, this next semester I'm taking 3 college courses online. This will enable me to stay at home all day long until the last 45 minutes of the day, when I'll stick around for choir. :c) I'm taking Intro to Sociology, Religion 101, and American Government and Politics. I'm excited about Sociology and AG&P, but the religion class has me a little anxious. My friend who took Religion 101 said she spent a lot of time debating people. Ah well, it'll keep things interesting, I spose.

Thirdly, I've been reading far too much. I just finished Pride and Prejudice for the third time, I finished a book called The Queen's Fool, which was intoxicating, and I'm starting Les Miserables. I forget how much I love to read when I've taken a break from it (Christmas break).

Until Next Time!

Cornerstone!

Yay!

So, last Thursday at 7:30 in the morning, my parents and I hopped into our minivan and took off for Grand Rapids, Michigan. 6.5 hours later we arrived. On Friday morning, we jumped right into life at Cornerstone!! I went to an American Literature: Realism class, which was AMAAZING.

Next we all had lunch. They had signs up over tables at lunch, and they were each labeled differently (For instance: Humanities, Education, Communication, etc.) and I hung out at the Communications table with a couple of theater majors for a while, and then chilled with the English Ed. Profs for a while. It was SPECTACULAR!! They were so innovative and intelligent (shocker, right? Men with PhDs being intelligent. ha!).

So anyway, then we met with a panel of CU Students, and then went on a tour of the campus (which is tiny and amazing and PERFECT!). Then we met with my admissions councelor, Bekka, and paid the admissions fee.

That means that I've got my place at CU reserved!!

yayyy.

So then I spent the night with a girl named Anna-Marie, and had an amazing time! The community at this school is SO great!! The two of us and six other girls spent the night watching movies, and halfway through one of the movies one of the girls stands up and goes "Okay, I think I need some God time" and everyone was just like "Okay! Have fun, dear!" and I sat there and thought to myself--'if I was in the middle of a movie with my friends, and I said that I needed some God time they'd look at me like I had a foot growing out of my forehead'.

What does that mean??

THAT MEANS I CAN'T WAIT TO GO TO CONERSTONE!!

Just nine more months!

Until Next Time!