Falling on My Face

My fitness classes (Yoga and Pilate's) are done for the week. I have Pilate's, Mondays' and Wednesdays , and Yoga Tuesdays and Thursdays. I kind of wish I had them Friday and Saturday as well ha ha. There are so many poses in Yoga so far that I have almost fell on my face trying to do so far. I actually bruised my knee one day when I fell over trying to do Reverse Triangle Pose. It was really funny however. I am really loving it though, despite how amateur I am at it.  My teacher always explains everything so clearly, and there are a lot of people in my Yoga class, so I can watch them too. I usually put my mat in the front, so I can see the best.  We started getting into the primary series of poses just like 2 or 3 classes ago. Last time we only did 3 or 4 of them, but today we did as many as 7 or possibly 8 of them. I don't remember precisely. I am gradually memorizing them. Some I can do a lot better than others.

I still have a lot of progress to make in both my Yoga and Pilate's classes, I am still very out of shape, especially for my Pilate's class, it is pretty hard but I do my best. I am working on my balance, and flexibility especially in my spare time.

I think we have our first test in Astronomy tomorrow, I'm a little nervous for that. There are still a lot of things I haven't quite caught on to yet.  I am going to study more later, and hopefully I will be able to fully grasp everything. I really love the class a lot, and can't wait to see what we talk about tomorrow. I want us to play around with the planetarium dome more as well, it's so cool.

English is going fine, I'm not sure if I said anything about us learning how to do APA papers on Tuesday, but that is what we did for that class period.  have English 4 days a week, kind of weird, but it works. We have 3 classroom days and 1 computer lab day.  We haven't been given anything that hard.

I usually have an hour between my Astronomy class, and my Pilates class, and my English class and My yoga class on almost every day except for Thursday and Friday. I have no English class at twelve on Thursday, and I have no fitness class on Friday. I usually just walk around campus in my free time just getting to know everything. I remember one of the days I went and read some of the apartment postings on the bulletin boards where they have all these houses and apartments for rent. Some of the ads are hilarious and made me laugh so hard.  People are so creative sometimes I tell you.  Sometimes I eat lunch in this time period, or just bring a nut bar, and buy a sobe Lifewater and drink that before class. I try not to eat very much before I exercise, that was actually recommended by my instructors.

Thursday, I don't remember if I mentioned this as well, but Thursday the Institute of Religion over near the University has a $2.00 lunch. It is something different every week. I didn't have it this week, but they had Taco Salad.  They call it 'Lunch Bunch".  The institute teachers are pretty nice and they sometimes buy people lunch if they don't have the money.

So, after my last post I actually sent the link to Darik. Not sure if he read it or not, he might have not read it. I made it a point to tell him to ignore the dramatic sounding title and to not read the other 3 parts. I don't think he would have read the other 3 parts even if I had given them to him as well anyway, so I'm not worried. I really wanted him to understand my feelings in this part. 

Yesterday I went to Costco with my mom and ad after school, we just bought a few little things, I also got some new pillows. They are just temporary pillows however, until I have enough money to buy a really good one next month. I sleep with two pillows, I get back and neck problems and stiffness if I don't. I put my 2nd pillow in the laundry room however to be washed. We decided that I just needed another pillow though. I can't afford the one I want right now, but I will be able to next month however. I'm looking for one that is like a micro bead pillow or something like that.

When I got home from school today my sister had made Peanut Butter cookies. I think this batch is for a neighbor or something though. I'm pretty sure she will make more for us however. 

Anyway, that is all for now. I know I usually do not post this early but I felt like writing, and when I feel like writing I know I should. :)

 

Ten Days Later

School has been going great for me. I am taking Yoga, Pilates, Astronomy, and English. So far over the past 10 days ssince school has really kicked into gear it hasn't been too hard, in my non-fitness classes that is. My Yoga and Pilates classes have really been working me hard, but I am really enjoying it. I have an awesome teacher, he is really fun and exciting, and he explains everything well in my Yoga class. My Pilates teacher has been working us to death, and it is only the third week, so it is still pretty hard for me in both classes. I can tell I am already getting better at those classes.
Astronomy has been fun we have been learning all about orbit, eclipses, planets, stars, etc. I still need to go through the chapters and read 1 to 5 again because it hasn't quite sunk in. I"m not surprised that my brain has taken a little bit of time to wake up, I did just get up off of a 4 month break. In the classroom, in the center of the room there is this big planetarium dome. We just started doing stuff with that. He simulated the orbit of some planets, and solar and lunar eclipses. I think the dome is really awesome, even if it doesn't always behave. The first day something went wrong and the stars started moving rapidly in one direction and everyone felt like they were zipping through the universe, it was trippy. I really enjoy my teacher, he is fun to listen to and exciting and knows how to crack a good joke. He always saves a good seat for me because of my visual impairment, I think that is really nice.  He also lets me be late without docking me because my previous class (English) is so far away. I can't wait to tell you guys more about this class as it progresses.  There is a lot I don't understand right now, but I can get the hang of it.
I am in the bottom English class in the college. I am very rusty in English, surprisingly enough. I'm sure none of you expected that since I write so much.  I don't know how to do a lot of things, like write papers, my grammar isn't the best, and some other things. So far I am liking the class, we have just started out with simple things like recognizing similar words, learning about the different kinds of papers there are and how to write and order them, and some other stuff. The class his pretty easy to understand, but gives enough challenge that I learn, but am not overwhelmed. We have this journal we write different stuff from the textbook in like responses to questions, summarizing paragraphs, and some other stuff.  It's nothing too hard, but gives a healthy dose of challenge. My teacher is pretty easy to understand as well. There are a lot of people from different countries in my class as well, It get's pretty interesting sometimes, sometimes some of them talk a lot though and that can be annoying.
I got a locker for my stuff for when I am in my fitness classes, it is all the way on the other side of campus from where I usually am. I also have to go up a ton of stairs, so when I go to put my stuff in it it's kind of like a pre-workout. I have been loosing a steady 3 pounds a week since school started because of all my activity. I am feeling really good. It's kind of exhausting walking back and forth between two ends of the campus, but it is helping me get into good shape. Sometimes I am tempted to take the elevator up instead of all those stairs, but then I think of all the help they can be.
I have also been careful about what I have been eating. I make sure not to pack anything really sugary or unhealthy in my lunches.  I also make sure I take a lot of vitamins, and drink a lot of water. My mom is a health expert, so she helps me a lot.
It is still pretty hot over here, so most of my days at school my back is completely soaked with sweat. I know that is kind of gross to some people, but there isn't really anything I can do about it ha ha. I am just glad I am getting into better shape.
I made sure not to schedule any of my classes before 11am, so I get plenty of sleep. I sometimes have a problem with falling asleep a little late, so this is good this semester. I am still trying to get my sleep patterns back on. They aren't that hard to get back on a good time, I just don't feel like going to bed early sometimes haha.
For ward Family Home Evening we played games, and ate these really great home made scones, they were amazing. I ate like 3 of them. I had one with powdered sugar and strawberry jam, one with honey, and one with cinnamon sugar and a little bit of butter. they were so addicting. One of the games we played was this one where there was this disk handed around and it had a different thing on it and the person that was holing it had to give clues as to what it was that was written o the disk. The person, or team that guessed correctly got a point. Our team lost, but it was still pretty awesome.
We were supposed to have a pool party today, but then a thunderstorm came, so we decided to just play games and hang out and stuff.  The thunderstorm was amazing though, it produced some of the coolest lightning I have seen in a long time. There were so many long ones this time, and we finally got some much needed rain.

Anyway, I guess this is all for now. I have pictures and stuff I want to show, but I'll do that tomorrow. I'm pretty wiped out. I can't believe I typed this much without falling asleep haha.