June 15, 2010 Gifts From God

1. yesterday I registered and paid for my ICAL/TEFL online course($265) and today I got my user ID and password to the secured student portion of the website, and so my first step was to complete this short questionaire, what i want out of the course, where i hope to work, any experience,etc and so they are going to take my answers and match me up to two tutors, and then i get to chance which of those two tutors i want as my personal tutor during the course. the course has 5 modules, and each module has: the module, checkpoint(multiple choice questions about the information in the module) and then a written assighment. the checkpoint and the written assighment are turned in and then graded, and i can retake the checkpoint as many times as i want until passing, and the same with the written assighment, except the tutor will look the written assighment on it and make comments and then i can make those changes and resubmit...it seems like a good course where they want you to learn and understand and apply the information and not just get through the course. i am really excited!!
2. I bought a subscription to News China(I found it while sorting the mail at my job in the periodicals department at the ACU library). it's the chinese version of newsweek and since i am going to be living there for at least a year, learning as much about the country, culture,language,news,etc will be good. :) i also bought the english edition of the Chinese National Geographic. it is not available in the USA, so i have to pay $40 since I am outside Asia. still, way worth it! i am so excited :)
3. went to lifegroup. it was good and i enjoyed it, so i am not sure about the all girl's thing, but i'll give it one more week or so.
4. had a good drive on my way back from the movies at the mall!
5. went to see prince of persia for the second time. so good!!
6. i started writing this story at work last night, and i only got a page in so i sent it to Dan and Brent and asked them to tell me what they thought, and Dan wrote back saying he liked it, and that it seemed to him i was good at character development! dorky as this will sound, it made me excited that he liked my writing!

location: Abilene,Texas