I would just like to begin by saying, "Wow, what a difference a week can make." Last weeks journal is so funny to me now, though at the time I meant every word I was typing. Can you say Migraine? Anyway, this week has been sooooo much better. I have really began to get worked up about the MRP. After Wednesday's class meeting and taking a gander at the Powerpoint stuff my mind has been working nonstop.(Almost to the point where I cannot rest...I am having MRP dreams.) This weeks assignments were not bad at all. I actually enjoyed researching the articles for my project. I am really enjoying my mailing list-I get about 100 emails a day. I don't get to read them all in great detail but I do stop to read the ones that seem to be pertinent to me. I emailed my list this past week and got an awesome response. The parents are already trying to hook me up with contacts for a job after I graduate. I don't know what exactly I wrote in my email to grant such praise but it seems as though all the parents are excited that a future SLP has an interest in Cleft patients. A few of them even took the time to write about good and bad experiences they have had with their SLP. Yes Mrs. McComas, I saved them! I got a chance this week to work on my blog a little. It's really looking alot nicer now. Look at all the pretty colors. Who would have known I could manage something like this. I have also been checking out the summer blogs. Hope our class out does them...not that it is a competition but...I still hope we do really great!! I am so proud of myself because I have not been the procrastinator this week. I managed to get some of my assignments done or partially done in the computer lab with Julie and Abbye. I think I was there more than them this week. Big change! I have even managed to get one of week 6 assignments done. I done it first before most of week 5 that way I would have a headstart for next week. Are you impressed yet? I have changed my essential question and my foundation questions since Wednesday's meeting but now I think I may go in a different direction...I know I know I have got to stick to something. I have to talk to Mrs. McComas tomorrow to discuss the possible changes. My dreams about this class have brought about the ideas for change. I just really would like for my mailing list to be able to look at my project and feel as though they have inspired something. I feel like doing my project about the correlation of smoking/drinking and cleft palate may offend someone or give someone else the wrong idea(like they would think that cleft palate is always because a parent did not take care of themselves during pregnancy which is certainly not the case in most children.) Smoking and drinking has been linked to cleft palate/lip but it can also be genetic or due to environmental factors. Anywhoo, my week has sure been better than last week. I hope they only get better! At least my attitude has gotten better and that's a start. When my creative juices begin to flow I begin to get inspired! Thanks for listening!
Cindy