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I was always afraid that I had complete forgotten my Spanish and would never be able to relearn it. Well I am happy to say I was wrong. At my current job, I work with children with autism. This past week I worked with a boy, who’s name only speaks Spanish. The first day my Spanish was quite terrible. But by the end of the week the nanny stated that my Spanish had greatly improved! I was also complemented on my Spanish by another person! I don’t remember the last time someone complemented by Spanish! I was so excited. If only one week of practice did that, there is still hope for me!

While on vacation with a friend I had dinner all by myself. My friend wanted to take a nap and I wanted dinner. At first I was going to just order room service. But I decided to have dinner at the hotel restaurant. I was really uncomfortable at first but by the end of the meal I was feeling better and started talking to another guest. I just had to remind myself that I shouldn’t care what these people thought about me.

I was REALLY hoping to move out of the US after I finished school in 2010. I was thinking somewhere in South America. However, my mother recently lost her job and I have to put this dream aside. No way could I make enough money to support myself and help my mom out in a different country. I’m not giving up on this dream. Who knows, maybe some miracle will happen and she will get a job within the year.

I should be writing my paper that is due this Friday….

I grew up speaking Spanish. My nanny only spoke Spanish. Now, while I could get by with my Spanish, I am definitely not a fluent Spanish speaker. I was thinking about taking a Spanish class but don’t think they would help me much. I did help with conversational Spanish. I am pretty good at understanding Spanish, just not speaking it. I haven’t seen any class that I think would help.

I used to work at 6am, which meant waking up at 4:30am. After 6 months if doing this I was finally getting used to it. Sleeping until 8 or 9am on the weekends felt like sleeping in. I have resistively quite my job to go back to school and have returned to my old habit of sleeping in.

Right now I can sleep to almost about noon if not disturbed. My goal is to wake up at 10am everyday, even the weekends. I have to go to school Wed-Fri so I’ll be waking up early anyways. The true test will come on the weekend.

I have been doing this for as long as I can remember. I think it started in 3rd or 4th grade. I don’t know why I do this, people tell me its stress. I think I just do it when I have dead skin on my lips. I tried to keep my lips moisturized. I thought if my lips were smooth I would not need to pick at them. Now I have an addiction to lip moisturizers and I STILL pick at my lip!

The year started off well. I went on 2 dates within the first couple of weeks in January. The dates did not go bad, however they were not great either. I decided not to go out with them again. Since then I have not even tried to go out on another date.

As I am getting closer to the thesis process, more and more of my fellow students are talking about just getting through thesis. Making it as easy as possible. I need to remember I went into grad school with the goal of getting my thesis published.

Just started my master’s program a few weeks ago!

I don’t know what this means exactly. I always find myself looking back and thinking to myself, ‘I should have tried that.’