Happy Thanksgiving

I have been extremely busy the past month with finishing midterms and then getting ready for finals. My mom came to spend a long weekend, which was so much fun and I was able to show her around this city I now call home. We went to all the tourist places and a few local places I like. It was great to see her, and I was sad when she had to leave. I am in the midst of finals, 2.5 weeks left of school and 6 LONG papers to write before I get a break. I am not looking forward to the next few weeks, but am trying to focus on my trip home for Christmas. My internship is getting more demanding too, I am now in charge of a lunch group with 5 trouble-causing 4th graders and then still see my 4 children individually. We are also raising money for the schools annual holiday drive so that the children can get not only toys, but also the necessary warm clothes that some of their parents can not afford to buy. This last month I have started to make some new friends and hang out with them on the weekends when I do not have school or work, but will more than likely not see any of them until I come back from California because the next few weeks I will be lucky to get a good nights sleep with these papers.

I was here for Thanksgiving which was a little weird, first time without the family. My friend Karianne from back home actually came out and spent the week here to go to a information session for a doctoral program she is applying to in NYC, and she spent Thanksgiving with me. It was nice to have a familiar face and not be alone on Thanksgiving. I cooked us a turkey (my first one ever) and a few other "thanksgiving day side dishes" and we had our own little Thanksgiving. Not much new here in NY, it's starting to get cooler and all the leaves have fallen off the trees now, it was so pretty to actually have a fall and see leaves change color this year! Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving, and I will write again after finals are over!

bye for now <3

Halloween

Cop, White and Orange Tiger :)

Midterms!!

Sorry I haven't written for a while. Midterms took all my free time. I am in 4 classes and an internship, so over the last 2 weeks I have had 4 papers due, which doesn't sound that bad but the amount of time that was needed for research and interviews and prepping for the paper and then actually writing it was so much more time consuming than expected. I am defiantly hitting that brick wall of not caring right now, usually happens around midterms for me, but I will be back running full force next week since I do not have any papers due next week. I do have another one in 2 weeks and then finals are only 5 weeks away! I can't believe that I am almost done with my first semester of graduate school! My internship is going great, I really enjoy it and working with the kids, I read for classes on the subway ride there and back and am getting busier and busier during the day there. I am now seeing 3 kids individually and am working with the problem children in a 2nd grade class every day that I am there. I bring them over to a table so they get more one on one attention. We are also putting together a presentation for parents to help them decide the best middle school for their children. I pretty much do not have much free time besides that. I did go out for Halloween this past weekend and dressed up as a cop. It was so packed and crazy in NYC, people just walking in the middle of the streets because the sidewalks were so full that the group I went out with all ended up coming home really early so I didn't get to enjoy the whole night like I had thought, but I still had a great time. I babysat for a family 3 weeks ago, for their 3 month old and I may actually start working for them on a more regular basis, they called today and asked what my weekly schedule looked like and would like to set something up with me. That would be great to get some extra cash flow because the loan money is going quickly, even though I don't feel like I spend often, this city is just so expensive. That's about it here from NYC I've been posting new pics on: http://picasaweb.google.com/cmwright121 More to come early next week! My mom is coming into town for a long weekend tomorrow and I am excited to show her around the city I now call home!

bye for now <3