Last Day

Today is the last day of class and then I am officially done with my first semester of college. My first semester was better than I thought it would be and I can only hope that second semester also goes as smoothly. I have met a lot of new people and I'm gonna be sad to not have class with them anymore. Next semester I am taking Intro to Online Blackboard, Intro to College Math, Intro to Pyschology and General Anatomy and Physiology. I'm hoping to end this semester with a 4.0 and so far it's looking pretty good for me. Overall, I've had a great first semester here at Western and I'm looking forward to second semester.

Final Paper

Last Thursday my dad and I were driving home from Viroqua. We had just dropped off my two nieces and were about halfway home. It was a blizzard outside. You couldn’t see a few feet in front of you and the snow was coming down really hard. My dad is an EMT and his pager went off regarding a bad accident that happened in a town up ahead of us.
As we came upon the accident a man standing on the road stopping traffic said that we could keep going and that there were no injuries. We continued to drive and saw the two trucks that had collided sitting on the side of the ride. We came upon another man on the road who stopped us saying that there were serious injuries. He asked us if we knew how to take care of injured people and my dad said that he was an EMT and I told the man that I was a CNA.
The snow continued to come down and I could barely see anything. It was really cold too. My dad pulled our jeep off into a ditch where a man with a broken leg was lying in the snow. He had no hat, no gloves and no blanket. I gave him my gloves because that’s all I could offer him.
My dad went over to one of the trucks where a man said two people were trapped in and they needed help getting out. I heard the man ask my dad if he needed any help getting the people out of the truck, so I raced over to help him. When I got up to the truck to help my dad get the people out, he told me to stay back because both people in the truck were dead. The two people in the truck that died was a father and a son. My heart sunk and I couldn’t get that image out of my head for days.
This accident made me look at things a lot differently. I feel that people should never take things for granted.

Blizzard!

I am not liking this blizzard that we got last night. It's cold outside and there is too much snow. My car is buried in snow and I don't have a shovel or anything to get it out with. Plus I don't have any boots to go trekking out into the snow with. I absolutley hate the winter time and I hope the rest of our winter isn't like this. I'm not going to like having to uncover my car all the time. I heard that it's supposed to continue snowing all day today and into the night. I'm glad that we didn't have school today. That's the only positive to snow like this. I didn't feel like going to class today so I was glad that school was cancelled.

End of the Semester

It's getting close to the end of the semester and I'm really happy. This is the time where procrastination catches up with the best of us and we start to franticly get all of our final assignments done. A lot of people really stress this time of the school year and I don't blame them because I'm stressing out a little too. My first semester at Western has been a good one. I haven't procrastinated too much and I haven't had as much stress as some other people I know. The teachers have been helpful and willing to help out when they can. I've learned a lot of helpful things this semester that I know I will take with me to next semester and the rest of my life. I've made many good new friends in class and it's going to be hard not seeing them everyday anymore. It's been a good run, but I want the semester to be over. I want a new set of classes and I want to be one more step closer to graduating.

Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving was fun. I loved the smell of all my mom's home-made cooking. I think she is a wonderful cook. College has been hard for me since I have to eat junk food all the time. I don't get my mom's good cooking everyday anymore. We had a small family get together at my house for Thanksgiving. Everyone came, ate, talked, and then left. Thanksgiving was also the start of the Christmas movies on television. We watched A Christmas Story at my house after we ate. I love that movie and so does my family. It never gets old. We all love the part where the boy sticks his tongue to the pole and when Ralphie's little brother says "I can't put my arms down!" This past weekend and break was a good one for me. I really enjoyed the time off.

Decorating for Christmas

We have a really big pine tree in our front yard and every year we decorate it like a christmas tree. On Saturday we decorated it with lights, tinsle, big ornaments, and big plastic candy canes. We could only decorate the tree halfway up because we don't have a ladder long enough to reach any higher. It took about an hour to complete and when it was all done we went inside and had soup. At night we turned on the tree and it looked beautiful. I also decorated a little 2 ft. tall tree for my dorm room that's currently sitting on my dresser. It has lights, ornaments and a santa tree topper. I love Christmas time! :)

"Into the Woods"

On Saturday at 7:00 p.m. and yesterday at 2 p.m. I attended the De Soto High School play of "Into the Woods". I thought it was very good. I was in plays my junior and senior year and I can definitely say that this play was better than both of those years. When I was in the plays, our theatre club barely had any money to buy sets so we used pretty much nothing. This year they fundraised a lot and was able to have really good sets.

"Into the Woods" combined the fairy-tale stories of Little Red Ridinghood, the Wolf, Cinderella, Rapunzel, Jack and the Beanstalk, and the Baker and his wife. A witch put a spell on the Baker and his wife so they weren't able to have children. In order for them to get rid of that spell, they had to find the witch a cow as white as milk, a cape as red as blood, hair as yellow as corn, and a shoe that is gold. The Baker and his wife ventured into the woods in search of these four items, encountering troubles along the way.

I thought the play was really good and that's why I went both days. The play had a lot of humor and was very cute.