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Name: Jessica
Birthday: 4/3/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: I really like music (of all kinds), ASL, and people. If I could, I would spend all day every day just talking to people and finding out who they are and what they are about. For now, though, I'm loving life and school here at MSU. I hope to be a teacher someday. :-)
Expertise: Can anyone really say they're an expert in something? Isn't there always more to learn? That's what I'm learning...the things I choose to learn about are math, ASL, kids, teaching, education, and Jesus.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Education/Research
Message: message meEmail: email me
AIM:  MSUBassoonie
Member Since:
9/10/2003
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| apparently I don't even know my own blogger account name. The REAL blogspot account is:
jbrtva.blogspot.com
check it out. 
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| so....it's been a long time.
This Xanga has gotten me through college. I've written, learned, shared, and grown on here...
Since I'm pretty much (although not completely) out of college, I think I'm pretty much done with Xanga.
I've started a blogspot account. Hopefully this will be the start of a blog journey through student teaching and into the rest of my life. Transitions are good. Change is good, right? check it out at brtvajes.blogspot.com
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| Just wanted to let y'all know that I definitely shot off a Roman candle on the beach in Pusan, Korea for the 4th of July. It was fun, until the beach police came to stop us. Sad. Anyway, things are going well, and we leave tomorrow to come back home to the states. Talk to y'all later! www.cm2007.net --> check it out! | | |
| well, half of my stuff has been moved out of my apartment. My mom came up and filled her car. Uncle Larry is coming this evening to fill his car with stuff that's staying in Swartz Creek until I move there in August. Then I just need to fill my car and I'll be gone! Weird. I'll still have some stuff sitting around in my apt. (a bed, dresser, lamp, coffee table, etc. We'll get those things in random trips during the rest of the summer.
I start work on Monday morning.
Amanda's graduation is this weekend in Indy. Yay for another time that will feel like someone is getting married. We're going to Buca de Beppo for family style Italian food for dinner. I'm excited.
I'm tired. I think I'll probably take a nap while watching TV this afternoon. Too bad it's not nice and sunny out, otherwise I would definitely go to Adams field for a nap. Oh, well, my floor will do just fine.  <3
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| Okay, wow. So much has happened in the last week and a half. All of those "lasts" are finished. I am now officially a Spartan Alumni. It was fun to see so many people at graduation, and my family, too!
Dinner today with the fam was pretty amusing. There were 24 of us. We had one table for 20 and another table that we put 4 people at. It was the "kids" table, including my (older) sister and her boyfriend, and 2 of my cousins (19 and 13). I felt as though it was my wedding. We deliberated about who would sit where, how to make sure I was interacting with everyone, and I even had to go around and do introductions! I guess that's what happens when you have a huge family that never gets all together because of a divorce. It's been 22 years since all of those people were in the same room. I was proud of my grandparents for getting along, though.
One quote from my youngest cousin present that made me chuckle but also kinda sad at the same time came after I said to my dad, "Do you know how to get to the restaurant?" My cousin asked, "Who is that?" "My dad." "Really? I've never met him." Which is true. Come to think of it, some of my best friends from high school have never met my dad or any part of his side of the family. They live in a different city. It was really inconvenient to come up and visit, especially once I started driving and could go down there for a weekend or whatever.
I was happy to be in such a big group of family today. It was fun. We ate good food, laughed, and I was amazed by their generosity. My mom's side of the family put together a quilt with everyone's hand print as a block, with a teacher quote in the middle, some hand stitched ASL letters, and MSU fabric as the backing. Each hand print (one for each of my grandparents, parents, sister, aunts, uncles, cousins, and a great aunt and uncle) has a different fabric that is significant for that person...for the most part they selected the fabric themselves. Then they traced their hand, and my mom, aunt, and grandma put it all together. It's awesome.
In other aspects of my life, God is providing support for Korea. I'm just over halfway done. He is good.
I meet my CT for next fall on Monday morning, and hopefully get a chance to observe the way her class runs a little bit before I need to leave. I'm packing up and moving home on Wednesday. Next weekend is Amanda's big hooding ceremony and graduation stuff. Even MORE of the family will be there then. I'm excited.
Tonight the Bulls are playing the Pistons. I'm headed to Rum Runners with some friends and then probably off to drop one of them off at the airport in Detroit (it's going to be an adventure! 6 of us are going...he needs to be there at 4 am or something crazy).
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