bigger than my body gives me credit for
So this week has been very interesting and relieving at the same time. I finally had my last midterm on Thursday and turned in yet another journal article for my sociology class. With three science classes and a sociology class I've been finding myself overwhelmed at times. My Biochemistry class is a lot of work. We have a quiz every wednesday and a three hour lab every other week. In our labs we have quizes and then we have lab reports that are due the week after the lab. We have to make tables and all kinds of good stuff for those so that seems to be keeping my schedule extra full. I'm also taking pathophysiology and I some how missed the prerequisites on that one because I haven't taken any of them. I'm doing ok in there but there is just so much information to learn. I think I got into that class because I didn't know I was coming back this semester until July so I was flustered to sign up for classes. Don't fret though, I still have to take the prerequisites next semester. :-) I'm in Genetics this semester too. That's the easiest science class that I have but there's still practice problems to do outside of class and we have quizes in there as well. The last two have been over a specific chapter though and I really like that because it's easy to study just one chapter and then you already know that information when the test comes around. I've bene putting off my research paper all semester that is due the end of November. We can pick any topic we want to dealing with inequality. I think I've finally decided to do inequality between race and gender in sports. That seems like something that could not only keep my reader interested but me as well when I'm writing the paper. I have a couple of weeks before things start to pick up in my classes again so I'm going to use this time to get going on that paper. Four weeks will fly by and the paper is worth 20 percent of our grade so I want to get an A on it.
This weekend is going to be crazy. I have my reserve weekend and a regatta in Elkhart Indiana. I am driving out to Utica, north of Detroit, working tomorrow until they let me leave, driving to Elkhart and then we will have our regatta on Sunday. I'm so excited for our regatta. It's the biggest one of the year so there will be lots of competition. The parents are awesome and always have a fun tent set up for us with tons of food and halloween decorations. We put our boats in peoples yards and they always have fun piles of leaves to lounge around in on our free time. Best of all, this year the coxies are coming together to form the GV SUPER COXIES!! We're going to wear child size t-shirts with GV superman logos on the front and small blue capes pinned to the back. Last year I wore this red spiderman ski suit. That was fun but I think it's going to be awesome with everyone participating. I really love all of the women coxins we have this year. We all seem to really work together and support each other. It's never really been like that in the past. My first year coxing it was myself and two other girls who switched from rowing to coxing as well. I think we clashed because we still all had that competitive I want to beat you out of the boat mentality.
There was a major change for me in rowing this week. It looks like for the first time I'm going to be transitioning over to the men's team. I'm nervous about it because coxing men and women are so different and I haven't worked with the men a whole lot. I think it will be great though because men just have more power and it will be a good experience to finish my senior year with. Plus I won't have to worry about my weight as much. The women's coxins need to be closer to 110 and then men's coxins need to be closer to 120. That's great for me because I'm 5'5 and if I weighed less than 120 with the muscle that I have I would look disgusting. Coach approached me at practice yesterday and told me that I was a strong women. He said that's a scary thing but in a very good way. He told me I could scare the crap out of the men in a way that would make them race harder. Right now, I'm just kind of content about this whole thing in that I'm sitting hear pondering what I am like when I am coxing. I can scare the crap out of them?? Hmm....what does that mean exactly? It least it's a good thing. Plus coach complimented me which is a rare thing.
Yesterday I experienced joy from a random act of kindness. I was having a hard week just because I was sick of midterms dragging out and the school still has my GI bill messed up. There a girl who I always see at the gym so I figured I my as well meet her if I see her everyday anyways. We talked for awhile and later on she added me to facebook and sent me a message saying that I made her day. I was just in a not so cheery myself mood so her saying that meant so much to me. Then I went home to my parents and had a great night with them. I love how the older I get the closer to my family I get. We all can relate to each other in different ways now and now I find myself becoming best friends with my brothers and my mom and step dad. I'm really blessed to have a family who loves each other so much. My moms coming up next Friday and we're going to go shopping and out to Olive Garden for lunch. YAY! I can't wait. Then last night when I got back I went to Dane's and he bought me a rose and a cute vase. He even stopped by at my work today just to say hello. When I've had a hard week and then I have a night like last night it just makes me realize how much God is really looking out for me.
Well I'm at work so I'm going to be productive but I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!!
Make someone smile this weekend!
This weekend is going to be crazy. I have my reserve weekend and a regatta in Elkhart Indiana. I am driving out to Utica, north of Detroit, working tomorrow until they let me leave, driving to Elkhart and then we will have our regatta on Sunday. I'm so excited for our regatta. It's the biggest one of the year so there will be lots of competition. The parents are awesome and always have a fun tent set up for us with tons of food and halloween decorations. We put our boats in peoples yards and they always have fun piles of leaves to lounge around in on our free time. Best of all, this year the coxies are coming together to form the GV SUPER COXIES!! We're going to wear child size t-shirts with GV superman logos on the front and small blue capes pinned to the back. Last year I wore this red spiderman ski suit. That was fun but I think it's going to be awesome with everyone participating. I really love all of the women coxins we have this year. We all seem to really work together and support each other. It's never really been like that in the past. My first year coxing it was myself and two other girls who switched from rowing to coxing as well. I think we clashed because we still all had that competitive I want to beat you out of the boat mentality.
There was a major change for me in rowing this week. It looks like for the first time I'm going to be transitioning over to the men's team. I'm nervous about it because coxing men and women are so different and I haven't worked with the men a whole lot. I think it will be great though because men just have more power and it will be a good experience to finish my senior year with. Plus I won't have to worry about my weight as much. The women's coxins need to be closer to 110 and then men's coxins need to be closer to 120. That's great for me because I'm 5'5 and if I weighed less than 120 with the muscle that I have I would look disgusting. Coach approached me at practice yesterday and told me that I was a strong women. He said that's a scary thing but in a very good way. He told me I could scare the crap out of the men in a way that would make them race harder. Right now, I'm just kind of content about this whole thing in that I'm sitting hear pondering what I am like when I am coxing. I can scare the crap out of them?? Hmm....what does that mean exactly? It least it's a good thing. Plus coach complimented me which is a rare thing.
Yesterday I experienced joy from a random act of kindness. I was having a hard week just because I was sick of midterms dragging out and the school still has my GI bill messed up. There a girl who I always see at the gym so I figured I my as well meet her if I see her everyday anyways. We talked for awhile and later on she added me to facebook and sent me a message saying that I made her day. I was just in a not so cheery myself mood so her saying that meant so much to me. Then I went home to my parents and had a great night with them. I love how the older I get the closer to my family I get. We all can relate to each other in different ways now and now I find myself becoming best friends with my brothers and my mom and step dad. I'm really blessed to have a family who loves each other so much. My moms coming up next Friday and we're going to go shopping and out to Olive Garden for lunch. YAY! I can't wait. Then last night when I got back I went to Dane's and he bought me a rose and a cute vase. He even stopped by at my work today just to say hello. When I've had a hard week and then I have a night like last night it just makes me realize how much God is really looking out for me.
Well I'm at work so I'm going to be productive but I hope everyone has a fantastic weekend!!
Make someone smile this weekend!