Bitter sweet

If you saw me last week I was not doing very well. I ended up with a really bad head cold. I am still getting over it but i am doing much better.

Friday was so awesome. I had to teach and since i was not feeling very good, Kevin, a singer from my ed class who also was teaching 1/2nd grade helped me teach. Team teaching is kind of fun because you have more than your self to entertain the students. But at the end of the 45 min class, I had 5 kids come up to me and gave me hugs telling me not to leave them. (I was leaving them because in my ed class we have to switch classes to get experience with different age levels.) I realized then that I have grown attached to them kids. They are all so amazing. What they pick up on and how different they all are. still discovering what life is about, it is just so wonderful to be around. I get to teach 3/4th graders this week. I am not sure how this is going to work. It will be tuff to pick up from what another person has set up in the class.

Friday was a sad end to the day. One of my second cousins died. He died of Leukemia and of phenomena at the age of 54. It is sad that we have to lose such wonderful people. I guess that is why we have to treasure life and those around us because you never know when God will call them to join Him in heaven.

Yesterday (Sat.) I when to the Denver march pow wow. I go almost every year with my parents since before i was born. I love going to the pow wow and seeing so many people that look like I do and take part in my heritage. I love the beautiful bead work, dancing, drums and Indian Fry bread. I think that Indian Fry bread is so good. But it is sad that it is not very good for you. If you did not know I am Native American as part of my heritage. 1/8 Apache, and pueblo Indian. I am also Spanish and French. I have always taken an interest in my Native American side. I see a lot of my family traditions are traditions that have been passed down from the Native American Roots. I think it is really cool to be able to see what things survive through out the years. It seems like I come from a long line of story tellers. My family Loves to tell stories. We have so many why not share them. I just wish that a lot of them had been written down so that they could be documented and captured. a lot of them are so charming. hey if you want to see pictures of the pow wow they are posted up on my other blog. "A year in Pictures"

Well I better do some HW and enjoy the rest of my evening.

sad day :(

Tis a sad thing when spring break is over. I am wishing that I had another week. i might even get that week due to illness. I came down with a nice cold. which is putting me at ease because it has been about 8 days since I was exposed to my sister who has been sick with whooping cough. Now i have this nasty cough that has been keeping me up since 1:30am this morning. I have been on antibiotics for exposure but I am not so sure they have been working. I have 6 more days but I have been showing the symptoms of whooping cough. :( sad day.

I am at work right now and I just got done reading a notice that was sent out to all office managers about someone who was diagnosed with whooping cough here on campus and it says that if you are coughing you need to see a Dr. --I am thinking i might have to go in...

this sucks.

time seems to go by so slowly right now...
I am bored. I just want to go back to bed actually. It is only 4:58am right now. and no one is up. I am watching Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire. It is such a good movie. I love that Krum. ;) It is so bright in the office. yikes. I guess that is one way to keep us early desk workers up in the wee hours of the morning.

*groan* my coughing is getting worse. this is not fun.

SPRING BREAK!!!

Yea finally spring break has arrived. A time of fun excitement, adventure and relaxation form the mounds of HW and classes. Well this is what you perceive as spring break. For me I planned on relaxing at home, doing all the wonderful HW that I have been assigned and doing something fun with Jeanette on Wed.

Well looks like plans are changing. Guess how I get to spend my first part of spring break...QUARANTINED! Yes indeedy...I get to be quarantined because my poor sister is now a Health Hazard and has created an outbreak of Whooping cough (pertussis). She exposed my parents to it and we just found out about it yesterday as we got home. the people from Tri-county health department called us.

Well I guess whooping cough is very contagious. when some one comes in contact with the infected person, whether it be a verbal contact for 15 min or what ever that person is most likely that was not infected is now infected. This brings me to my situation. my sister has been sick since this weekend...she gave out host in church (the wine to be more specific) -if you don not know us catholics drink out of the same cup usually...so not good if you are a public health hazard...she progressively got sick over the week and my parents and rest of the family (except me, because i was in Fo Co) came in contact with her. but I did come in contact with my parents at my steel band concert (so Jeanette if you are reading this you might want to call your Dr. to see if you have to take some meds. because you came in contact with my parents this week and they have been exposed to it) So now i am getting to take meds. for 24 hrs so i hope.

Man I am just think about how many people I have come in contact with--(hundreds of people) my mom too and Joy it is truly amazing...um so I am not sure what to tell you all if you have come in contact with me. because I am not sure if I am a walking heath hazard like my mom and sister or not but just wanted you all to know just so you all could be on the look out for some symptoms. I think it starts off like a really bad cold with a very bad cough. the incubation for it to actually develop is 6-20 days before you get symptoms...so just some FYI.

well gotta go eat some breakfast... i hope you are all enjoying your break...*sigh

Fun times in Brighton

Well happy Wednesday-
I hope all is well.

Yesterday afternoon/evening was so much fun. The entire CSU steel band took a road trip from Fort Collins over to Brighton Colorado, to play a concert with the Brighton Heritage Academy steel band. It was so much fun to have that many people getting to play together. I think that we were the biggest steel band ensemble that has played here in Colorado. It is cool getting to be apart of something new.

My roommate drove Tashi, Jessica, me and her self over to Brighton around 3:30. I was having a little too much fun. Remember when you are a kid and you pass by big truckers and move your arm up and down for them to honk their horn. well I did that to one trucker and he actually honked his horn. it was so funny. I am still laughing at that.

Man it was loud when we combined the 2 ensembles. but it was still cool. the program started out with the kids at BHA playing a few songs.

I got to sight read a song and we performed it after only playing it twice before the concert. But it was easy. it only had 3 chords in it. ;)

after BHA kids got done playing we played our 3 pieces. I was so happy i did not mess up my solo in Playa Larga. we then got both bands together and Jammed. I was excited to have my parents and both of my grandparents there. My grandpa has never seen me play now that i have been in college. and he has never seen steel pans before. I do not think he liked it very much but I am still glad that he came to see me. Today is my Grandma's Birthday. I am sad that I am not there to celebrate her birthday with her but at least I got to see her last night to wish her a happy birthday. :)

We had to load and unload the pans after the concert. this was an entertaining thing.

While we waited for Ty and Matt to get to the building with the pans, Paul was serenading Jessica, Jessica, Tashi, Jeanette and Me. I kept on asking where his tip jar was. He is quite good on the piano. I also came up with a name for all us girls in steel band. I think we should be called the Flock of Ladies. I think this is a cool and funny name for a band. this is the first time in steel band history here are CSU that us girls out number the guys if you do not count Don the director. we are 6 to 5 ratio. when I first started 3 years ago, Kathleen and I were the only Ladies in the group. I was the only one who did not play percussion. Ah fun times... Any ways we all had fun down in B-Town.

I am also happy because I got a 70 on my Humans and other Animals test. This is a big achievement for me because for some reason that class is really hard for me. but things are looking up. :) It is also almost spring break and I am now getting a chance to relax so it is nice. I am also loving this weather. although I am getting spring Fever. oh well...I will be off soon. well i will write more later.. Have a nice day.(to see more pictures check out my picture blog...you will be entertained.

Manda Panda