It is already November, only one month left until 2016. It is so insane how quickly this year has gone by. Summer is long gone.. The weather is definitely colder, although sometimes it can get somewhat warm, but the highest temperature has been in the 60s. I am surprised because it would be snowing by this time, like last year. So maybe this year is a warmer winter? I hope it doesn't snow for as long as possible. I am excited for Thanksgiving, and also my birthday is on Tuesday. I won't be doing much for either day, but I am just happy to see all the holiday festivities. I will try to do something for Thanksgiving, if I can. Once school is finished I will be going to visit my mother in Texas, and I'll be staying there for a month. The only issue is my cat, since I will take the bus this time, I have to figure out who can cat sit for me. School is going by quickly as well, I only have about 4-5 weeks left. I dropped the Spanish class that I was taking. I know it sucks, and I feel guilty, but I was struggling in the class, and my first test grade was not good. The second test I took and the same day I dropped the class, I am pretty sure I failed. I will check with the professor, and let her know I dropped the class. I really feel the teacher was not teaching well, she did not do much, but had us do activities from the textbook, if that was the case, I could do that alone. The test were super tricky as well. I wish that these type of language classes were taught differently. There should be constant teaching of making sentences, but also translating sentences. But that does not happen at all. We answer questions in the book, she never really checked anything. Also she took a lot of points off, instead of being lenient. So that doesn't help, obviously I won't be perfect, but it doesn't help if I don't get any credit, even for having it partially right. We spent almost two months on one chapter, and the next we finished in just two weeks.
I am done with school. I had planned on getting my teaching certification. I have decided to not do it. I am taking three courses for teaching certification this semester, and I learned that those classes also have graduate students as well. So I am taking graduate level courses, basically, but undergraduates can also take them. So I thought, I might as well do my masters. I won't need the teaching certification if I have a masters. I also am starting to miss my family a lot, so I feel that I need to be there for them as well. I now am hoping that I can move to Texas by next year in maybe spring time. In the mean time I am going to work, save money, and try to buy a car. I still have yet to learn to drive. I can't afford the driving school lessons, it is $45 per 45 minute lesson, which is a lot, since I need a lot of practice. I don't have that much money to keep paying until I can drive. I really need to get some friends with cars, or something, because I just want to practice, even if its 5 minutes, it will help. I do have a new room mate, who has a car, although it isn't the best looking car, but that is why I think it would be easier to drive her car. Other people have cars but are too nice, that I wouldn't want to drive it, being scared I might mess it up. Plus I don't think they would want me learning to drive in their car. So I might ask my room mate, she is nice, and just moved here. Finally I am not the only girl living here.
I was thinking when I go to Texas, I can work, and help my mother out. Plus I will save money, if I live with her, she has her own place now. There is a school there called Texas Tech University. It is a pretty good school, and a lot of medical students go there, so I am thinking I can do my masters for education there. My older sister is studying there as well. I do wish I could go to New York, but I don't want to be away from my family. It has been almost 2 years since I have been living away from my family, and I only saw them twice. I don't do anything, I stayed at home for Halloween, had a midterm paper to write. All I could do was paint my face. So once I am finished with school I will try to find a job. I will work full time if I can, and I really wish it could be associated with my major but I don't mind if it is other jobs.
Aside from that, I have lost some weight. I didn't eat meat for a month! I started from October till November. It wasn't bad, I didn't feel any different. I did crave chicken towards the end. But I was more awake, and I eat much less now. I eat probably about two times a day. I lost 10lbs and I hope I lost more, but I have to check. I have been eating chicken again, but that's about it. I completely stopped eating ice cream, junk food, and occasional I will eat sweets. Which is a lot less than before. I just now bought ice cream only for my birthday. Now I have to try and get exercise into my routine. I am proud that I am at least doing one thing right.
