Feb 11 2010

SURVIVOR NIGHT.
That is what this part of my life is called.
And oh man, it's great. :] I am soo excited for this season, number 20 babbyy, it's going to be so intense! Some of my very favorite people have returned to battle it out in the islands of the pacific. I just love it. I am so enthralled by the entire concept of the show, and watching these crazayyy people strategize their way through this game. It is fascinating. We all picked our winners, and I choose my favorite black gravedigger from the south, James, and then for the villians team, I of course choose good ol' Boston Rob. We have to stick to the originals. However, I believe Evil Russell is going to give Rob a run for his mischievious-evil-mindgame money.
Oh, I'm such a freak. But I just can't help it. I love it so much!
We kicked our workout routine up to level two tonight, and it kicked back. That was tough stuff!Jillian is definitely not kind, but at least she does the work out with us. I feel good though, so that is all that matters. Hopefully, I'm not too sore tomorrow.
Tomorrow.
I'm going home! :] I'm very excited. However, it's going to be quite the adventure, because it's also Smart Cookie D-Day. For those of you who don't know, there is just something about our sugar cookies shaped like hearts that makes people crazy. Fire in their eyes, mouths salivating, nails bared, and teeth gnashing.
I'm so excited. :]
I'm hoping that I will be able to adequetly write the blog about my adventures, but you know that certain someone who alwasy distracts me from the blog.
I'll do my best however.
My Human Development professor, Dr. Austin, is almost like a white Oprah. She spent last week in Africa, working on her various projects helping to improve the education and development of children in the foreign country. It was fascinating to me, that a woman with so much here, was willing to give up so much over there, for absolutely nothing in return. I want so badly to be involved with something like that in the future, I just need to find a way. :] Maybe, that's my mission. We'll only see I guess. I believe that deep down I'll be able to eventually find the power to do it. I'm starting small now, but my involvement with the Deaf world is driven by a desire to help them. I don't pity them, that's not my view. I don't want them to hear, I don't want them to learn English, I don't want them to be like everyone else. I want the world to adjust to them, for once in their lives. It makes me so sad seeing these people who struggle through their lives, just to be able to read a book. They are shut out of language early on by 'Doctors' and 'Specialists' that are afraid of the difference. I think that is why I want to be a teacher, to give the students that will eventually be mine the ability to distinguish the differences between everyone, and view them as positive. I never want my students to feel like they can't achieve the world, just as the hearing kids in the school down the street are told they can. There is no limits placed on success, there are no boundaries to the things that people do. Why are we boxing people in, instead of stepping back and watching what they can become?