nearing the end

Well look at that- it's the end of another school year. Where did it go? I seamed like just yesterday that I recieved my accaptance letter into the college of Education and here I am with only one day of classes left.
I've heard about the job I interviewed for but I'm still waiting for conformation. The principals at the school had a hard time deciding between me and one of the other candiates. They actually offered the grade 3 position to the other candidate but becuase they wanted me as well, Jason from Human Resources is going to try and create a position for me so that I can some up and teach for 2 months. my job would be more along the line of a literacy teacher. I would be working one on one or with small groups of children with guided reading. Jason told me not to worry about the job but to finish up my classes and make the my commitmetn for right now...and that I will hear from him within 2 weeks so my start date would still be the 20th of April.

Another Week

Another week has gone by --- where has it gone? It doesn't seem to matter how much I have done or not done, but the days are slipping away faster and faster as classes are coming to and end. I can't believe that I have an interview on tuesday for a position that would be starting on the 20th of April. If I am lucky enough to be offered the position my time will go by even faster. As much as this interview and possible teaching position scares me I am truly excited about it and really hope that I get it. I need something positive in my life after all the negative I have been through in the past month and this could just be what I need. If it turns out I really don't like it...it's only two months. Who can complain about that - at least I'd be making a wage!!!

Part 1 - E-Portfolio

I have chosen to create a e-portfolio because I am just starting out on how to create many different things on the computer and feel that this project will chanllenge me in my ability with computers.

I feel that having a portfolio on line will allow me and my employers to have better access to my
documentation. It may even come in handy when I am applying for jobs.

I plan to include my resume, transcripts, my intership report and a letter of recomendation. I am planning on making some kind of cover page stating that it is my portfolio.

I have not really thought about the design of my portfolio. I know I would like it to be fairly simple as I do not like clutter and feel that too much design may take away from the finished product. However, this may change as I work on my project and try different things out. My cover page will probably be the most decorative of all the pages.

I have many concers about the process but I will work on it and ask for help as I need it. There are a few classmates that have offered to help me with the process as I have not created anything like this before. Most of my concerns come from the fact that computers and I don't always get along and I'm not always sure as to what need to be done.

Well lets stick with the topic of waether. Why is it that March is the worst month to travel in? I went to BC 2 weeks ago and had to change the route home as there was a crazy snow fall and the rogers pass was closed. So we add a couple more hours on the road and we eventually got home. This past weekend I was in Edmonton and the weather was not much better there. It was so windy that the chill cut right through you. When we got up to come home on Sunday we woke up to very crapy weather...snow, fog and wicked wind. Our trip to Saskatoon which should have taken 5 hours took 9. There was only one path on the double lane hiway and at that it was riding the center line. All I can say is I am glad we made it to Saskatoon and the rest of my family made it home to Nipawin.

Weather---a term used by many people as a topic of conversation. Beign from saskatchewan weather is always talked about...is it raining, how much snow do you have...are the crops going to have a good or bad year ( all based around weather). Well it as -52 the other day in Saskatoon and very chilly. I was busy getting ready to go on my trip to Kamloops and wondering what all I needed to pack. Being so cold I decided to take some warm clothes as i would be comin gback to a cold temps. In a matter of 24 hours I went from -52 to +5...a 52degree change in weather within Canada(no I didn;t go some where warm!) There is hardly any snow in Kamloops however there is still tones up in the mountains. On saturday my boyfriend and I went Ski-doing at Sun Peaks Resort(they need to learn how to mark their trails like Saskatchewan does). There is still about 4-5 feet of snow up there. It was an absolutly beautiful day as we headed out onto the trails at 9AM and it was only-2, by the time we stoped and had something to eat and take a few pictures it had started to snow and was a complete white out in 20 min. (kinda scary when you don't really know where you are going).

Here is a picture of me and all the snow!

Don't knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn't start a conversation if it didn't change once in a while. ~Kin Hubbard

What kind of world do we live in?

It just absolutly amases me that people will be so low as to take what is not theirs. This past weekend my friend had two of her puppies (lab crossed with pit bull) stolen. This just makes me up set not only because they were stollen but they were not old enough to leave their mother yet and the fact that who ever took them didn't respect the privacy of my friend and went into her yard and just picked them up. Who would do such a thing??? Who ever took them was very daring as my friend and her roomate were home on the night they got stolen. So how did they do this? Did they drive right into the yard, did they walk into the yard and take them? Have they been watching and scouting around to find out what the best time to do this was or was it just some young kids out on a joy ride and saw them and decided to take them??? I guess we will never know.

My Feb break!

Has anyone tried booking flights in the middle of Feb break...well guess what you can't find a flight from Edmonton or Calgary to saskatoon from Feb 19th to the 24th. Everyone is flying home from their wonderful, hot, relaxing feb vaccation. Well not me...I'm stuck in Saskatoon and what an interesing break it was....more like frustrating. Lets begin by saying I decided to get some assignments done as I am going to BC in 2 weeks for a week and as a reasult of looking at resources on line I ended up with a virus and spyware on my computer and was without a computer for 3 days, so getting a head of the game on the assignments didn't happen. On sunday I had to drive to Edomonton as there were no flights to Saskatoon. My dad and brother-in-law flew in from work up at Fort Chip and could not get home. So guess who had to drive to Edmonton to pick them up...Yup lucky me. I have decided if you have to go to Edmonton for anything that you should go up the night before and then come back the next day. The only pros to my quick trip were the hour of shopping in Edmonton, the double lane hiway there and back and my dad's laptop having a mobile broadband internet connection. Yup, I'm writing on my blog on the way home form Edmonton and Dad is drving...