6 down, 1 1/2 more to go!

So, I've finished another semester! YAY! that makes me so excited because that means that I have 1 full semester left, then one class next summer then I'm DONE! I can't hardly believe it! I thought this day would never come!

This semster turned out pretty successfull. I had five classes:
- medical spanish terminology --> A-
- business spanish --> A
- spanish translation and interpretation --> A
- oral proficiancy --> A
- silver latin ballroom --> B

I have to admit, I'm kinda bummed about my B, it's the first one I've recieved since I got home from my mission. However, it doesn't surprise me too terribly much, I did miss several class periods. But still, it was probalby the easiest class of the bunch - second only to oral proficiancy - and it is my lowest grade! oh well, life does go on.

Two of my spanish classes were mainly focused on vocabulary so I made lots of flash cards. this is a picture of all of the words I learned this semester. If I had to guess, I'd wager that there are nearly 1000 words in that pile. (the red ones are business spanish and the blue ones are medical spanish) I was pretty much swimming in vocab this semester!




(Dory wants to learn too!)



(It's not every day you come across a bilingual cat!)

I passed the training course at the hospital, which makes me elegible for that 100 hour internship as an interpreter there (as I talked about in my last post) I just have to put in the aplication for being a volunteer at the hospital and I can start.

This break has been quite nice so far. It's been nice to not really have any commitments. I just hope that I'll be ready and motivated when it is time to start school. I start again in Jan. 5 (I'm pretty sure). I can't say I'm terribly excited for the classes that I have next semester; I have two literature classes, a phonetics class and another dance class. I think that the phonetics and dance classes should be pretty interesting, it's the literature classes I'm worried about. I struggle with english lit, how am I supposed to do it in spanish! oh well, it'll be over before I know it.

so that's what's up with me right now. until next time!

An update

There are some things that have, in the past, been tentative but have now been made concrete; so I thought I would update you all since I have a few minutes.

- This friday and saturday, I'm going to take an interpretation class that the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center provides. This is particularly exciting because I first found out about it about two years ago and have wanted to take it ever since, I just wasn't in a position to be able to until now. I thought I was going to have to wait at least until february, if not longer, to be able to even take te pre-test to see if I could be in the class; but as it turned out, the director of the program came and talked to my medical spanish class and offered to hold a class especially for us if there were enough students interested. There were, and now I get to start this process about three months earlier than expected! I say process because upon successful completion of the two day (16 hour) course, I get to do a 100 hour internship as an interpreter at the hospital. It is unpaid, however, at the end of the 100 hours, I will be a certified interpreter according to IHC. And I hope to be hired after my hours are done. Even if I'm not though, to be able to put that internship and the experience on a resume will be quite valuable.

- it is official, I will be attending BYU in January. My original reason for going there was to have access to their student insurance plan. In January I'll be 26 and no longer able to be on dad's insurance policy. With my eye however, I need to make sure that my insurance never lapses so that I can continue to have coverage throughout my life. As I researched my options, BYU's covereage seemed to be the best deal - the most coverage for the least amount of money. So I applied and got accepted. During all of my research I also applied for an extention on Dad's plan (because of my disablity) and it was granted. Why then, you might ask, will I still be attending there? after all, at UVU I'll graduate in about July while BYU will require about two (or more) years worth of school of me. Well, I figure, I already got accepted and I wouldn't mind a change of scenary. Besides, I found three classes that will transfer back to UVU and fill three of the remaining classes that I need, I'll take my last class during the summer from UVU and still graduate as planned.

- and for anyone who may be seceretly (or not so seceretly) longing to know... no, I'm not dating anyone right now; nor does it appear that I will be any time soon. Granted that could change at any moment but for the time being, I'm still just chugging away at school. It's probably better this way anyway because at this rate, I'll be graduated before I even meet anyone so I won't have to worry about distractions! :O)

so, that's my life in a nutshell...

UNTIL NEXT TIME!

Funny thing about interpreting... ya kinda need to know the language...

I couldn't figure out how to just upload this video to my blog, so here's a link. It's a short video clip that my interpretation teacher showed us in class a little while ago, it's pretty funny. Hope you enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iHQbLNal6A

Ode to Dory

I was going to do this post on monday, but I didn't get time. Monday was the chosen day because monday was one year ago exactly that I brought Dory (my kitty) home. Yes, she is named after the fish on 'Finding Nemo' I just thought it was a cute name for a cat too. this picture on the Left is of her on the first day I had her. Isn't she cute! I Just love her little tail! (or lack there of....) The one on the right is just a close up of her. you can't see it in this picture, but she has very pretty blue eyes.



I'm not exactly sure how much joy she brings to how many people, (she does meow ALOT!) but she sure does bring lots of joy to me. Mom and Dad have been out of town alot this year, leaving me home alone alot. I have to admit, it is kinda nice to have the house to myself for a while, but it does get lonely. Having Dory around helps me not be quite so lonely.


When I first got her, I kept her inside all the time so that she didn't get sick or wounded (in fights) or run over by a car. During that time I got lots of pictures, but she's become an indoor-outdoor cat the past six months or so, so I havn't really been able to take as many pictures (as she is not always around. I think she's is happier that way though). So, in honor of her being here for a year now, I thought I would post some of, what I call, her finer moments! :)


Exploring


When she first arrived, she climbed and explored everything ...






I was actually quite glad that she discoverd the bathtub because she later discoverd that there are sometimes spiders in there and she takes care of them for me! (she loves spiders)


Learning to Climb

Before Thanksgiving last year, I put up my little 4" tree and decorated it so that all of the nieces and nephews could enjoy it while they were there. Some people decorate their tree with lights and ornaments...





... I just put my cat on there! Ok not really, she did that all on her own. I guess that should have been my first clue that she wanted to go outside!



And my all time favorite...

Gone fishin'! With out the fish...

I can't believe a whole year has gone by since I got her! there have been many more fun momentes but I, apparently, have not done a very good job of keeping track of pictures because I don't have some of them, and there are just too many, I'm not sure the blogger program could handle it all! :)

I hope you've enjoyed 'The Dory Show' ! love you all.

untill next time!

Translate that!

so, I wasn't going to start a blog just yet, I didn't think I had time to even set one up, let alone keep up on it. Then, as I looked at my sister's and my sister-in-law’s blogs, I started to realize how easy it all really was, and then I started feeling left out because I didn't have one. So here I begin my own blog. I can't garentee very frequent posts (unless you want to hear about all my homework and tests! :) ) but I'm sure that every once in a while I'll come up with somthing fun to say.

I thought I'd start out with a fun little somthing I found in my reading assignment for my translation and interpretation class... (you can click on it to see a bigger immage)

(this comes from: "The Translators Handbook" by Morry Sofer; sixth revised edition pg. 30)