Monday, June 05, 2006
Dog seeks admission to SAC classroom
Accompanying me to campus today were my husband via bicycle and dog via paws. Intending to continue to San Pedro Springs park for squirrel chasing, my husband whistled to Oesti. She ran down the ramp and right back up to follow me into Moody. After this sequence was repeated several times, much to the amusement of the nearby maintenance worker, I took Oesti all the way down to the bottom of the ramp and continued into the building. Little did I know she continued to gather laughter as she returned to enter the building with an unsuspecting student. She then ran down the stairs and up the ramp and into the building again, persistent in her attempts to seek higher education. Meanwhile, noticing a red sticky substance on my hand and blouse, I realized what the maintenance man had been doing: painting the railing.
After that Monday morning experience, settling down to discuss our "rank the facts" and "newsworthy" exercises was a welcome relief. I believe I'm beginning to understand what our teacher is looking for. She did say we're apt to be harder on ourselves than she would be. Getting a better idea about what is expected in news writing does slow me down in reading the newspaper though.
We took off in the van to acquire our International Student Identification Cards at the University of the Incarnate Word, driving through familiar territory near Trinity University, Brackenridge Park, and the Witte Museum. En route south to Palo Alto College, our teachers' home campus, we were treated to views of the city's skyline with its Tower of the Americas in Hemisfair Park. Some students were picking up scholarship checks and others acquiring ACCD student I.D.'s. I was gratified to find that I had actually been registered thanks to the combined efforts of Mark Hagen, Denise Richter, and Rachel Montejano. I still had to return to the bursar's office to clear my tuition balance and return to registration for my I.D. At least I made acquaintance with parts of the campus other than the Aquatic Center. The appealing new cyber cafe was just opened. However, I did not get the chance to type the lead exercise. Dr. Richter decided to accept the longhand version. I hope we can get our printer working for tomorrow's assignment.
During our return trip to SAC, Karen passed out a travel checklist which looked much like mine. If I don't check off items on a list, I'm annoyingly apt to leave behind helpful articles. I'm trying to decide how much laundry I want to do which will affect the number of clothes I bring. Oh for the days when I had acquired enough packable, washable clothing to be able to pack to go anywhere in the world at a moment's notice. At least my passport is current. With departure a week from today, planning is gathering momentum, while continuing classwork, teaching swim classes, and anticipating work and pleasure at the Texas Folklife Festival this coming weekend.
Manana at the Art Institute to view the Latin American wing.
Accompanying me to campus today were my husband via bicycle and dog via paws. Intending to continue to San Pedro Springs park for squirrel chasing, my husband whistled to Oesti. She ran down the ramp and right back up to follow me into Moody. After this sequence was repeated several times, much to the amusement of the nearby maintenance worker, I took Oesti all the way down to the bottom of the ramp and continued into the building. Little did I know she continued to gather laughter as she returned to enter the building with an unsuspecting student. She then ran down the stairs and up the ramp and into the building again, persistent in her attempts to seek higher education. Meanwhile, noticing a red sticky substance on my hand and blouse, I realized what the maintenance man had been doing: painting the railing.
After that Monday morning experience, settling down to discuss our "rank the facts" and "newsworthy" exercises was a welcome relief. I believe I'm beginning to understand what our teacher is looking for. She did say we're apt to be harder on ourselves than she would be. Getting a better idea about what is expected in news writing does slow me down in reading the newspaper though.
We took off in the van to acquire our International Student Identification Cards at the University of the Incarnate Word, driving through familiar territory near Trinity University, Brackenridge Park, and the Witte Museum. En route south to Palo Alto College, our teachers' home campus, we were treated to views of the city's skyline with its Tower of the Americas in Hemisfair Park. Some students were picking up scholarship checks and others acquiring ACCD student I.D.'s. I was gratified to find that I had actually been registered thanks to the combined efforts of Mark Hagen, Denise Richter, and Rachel Montejano. I still had to return to the bursar's office to clear my tuition balance and return to registration for my I.D. At least I made acquaintance with parts of the campus other than the Aquatic Center. The appealing new cyber cafe was just opened. However, I did not get the chance to type the lead exercise. Dr. Richter decided to accept the longhand version. I hope we can get our printer working for tomorrow's assignment.
During our return trip to SAC, Karen passed out a travel checklist which looked much like mine. If I don't check off items on a list, I'm annoyingly apt to leave behind helpful articles. I'm trying to decide how much laundry I want to do which will affect the number of clothes I bring. Oh for the days when I had acquired enough packable, washable clothing to be able to pack to go anywhere in the world at a moment's notice. At least my passport is current. With departure a week from today, planning is gathering momentum, while continuing classwork, teaching swim classes, and anticipating work and pleasure at the Texas Folklife Festival this coming weekend.
Manana at the Art Institute to view the Latin American wing.
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