Today was a fascinating day, almost movie like. Today was the first day of school, and I loved it. This semester I love my teachers because they actually want us to learn, rather than "get a grade." Also I received a wonderful gift:
So one of the textbooks I have to get is a MCOMM textbook that costs $120 used.... I was not looking forward to it, because textbooks are simply a waste of money, because of their prices. Anywho as I walked into a building on campus I saw a co-worker and stopped to talk to him. Next to him was a recylce bin for students to recycle their textbooks at the end of the semester. As we chatted about various teachers in the COMM department, I glanced in the bin and saw this:
I was overjoyed! It even had the CDROM required for assignments. I have to think that maybe I had good karma because I am extending myself personally in classes. Today I introduced myself to several people I would not normally say hello to or even mention my name. I guess you could say I am breaking free. Lately I am doing this more and more. I tend to get nervous and not extend myself when I am around people I know, but when I am tossed in the deep, I swim on my own.
Maybe that is my goal this year, to be comfortable in the uncomfortable.... to lose a little part of me with everyone...
PS thought this was worth posting, because I have a "friend" who did something similar, but not the same way:
A woman apologized Friday for a "bad decision" in helping her 6-year-old daughter win tickets to a Hannah Montana concert with an essay that falsely claimed the girl's father died in Iraq.
Priscilla Ceballos said she had not intended to mislead the contest sponsor but got caught up in helping her daughter "realize her dream of seeing Hannah Montana."
"Instead I brought so much negative attention to my family," Ceballos said, reading a statement on the "Today" show. "Please accept my heartfelt apology and please do not punish my child for my mistake."
Ceballos apologized specifically to the military and military families for falsely claiming the girl's father died in a roadside bombing in Iraq.
"I just wanted to help my daughter write a compelling story," she said. "There is no more compelling story than the struggle and sacrifices of our military and their families."
Priscilla Ceballos said she had not intended to mislead the contest sponsor but got caught up in helping her daughter "realize her dream of seeing Hannah Montana."
"Instead I brought so much negative attention to my family," Ceballos said, reading a statement on the "Today" show. "Please accept my heartfelt apology and please do not punish my child for my mistake."
Ceballos apologized specifically to the military and military families for falsely claiming the girl's father died in a roadside bombing in Iraq.
"I just wanted to help my daughter write a compelling story," she said. "There is no more compelling story than the struggle and sacrifices of our military and their families."
The essay won her the grand prize: airfare for four to Albany, N.Y., and four tickets to the sold-out Hannah Montana concert Jan. 9. The opening line in the essay was: "My daddy died this year in Iraq."
Ceballos admitted later in the day to store officials that the essay and the military information she provided about her daughter's father were untrue.
Ceballos admitted later in the day to store officials that the essay and the military information she provided about her daughter's father were untrue.
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