life plans and mustard?

today, was eh. i had to go buy one of my books at Ohlone and get my parking permit. they just changed the book store over to a private seller, so all of the counts are wrong. i'm really glad i got most of them online. they had the one i was planning to buy there, but 2 they didn't have any of and the other 3 they only had like 2 of each. you think by now i would be used to hiking up the hill (if you don't know the campus, it's on a hill, with tons of stairs. you get a work out going to class.) but it really isn't anything i have been able to get used too. there's so many freaking stairs! ugh.

one thing i found out after i started taking college classes is that i actually like school. who would have guessed, right? i like being able to study what i want to study. i like being able to do my hw when i want. i like that i don't always have to be there. and i like feeling like i'm learning something. i'm actually really excited for all of my books to get here.

right now my plan is to get my AA in Early Childhood Studies, then transfer to Sac State to get my BA (or it might be BS there... i don't remember, it varies so much by school for my major) in Early Childhood Development. this means i could either be a teacher, have my own childcare, work towards owning my own pre-school, or go more into the research side of it. but i think i'm going to go more for teaching then research, but who knows how that will change in like 2 years? a year ago i wasn't even thinking about getting my BA.

yeah after reading all that, i'm pretty sure i'm really a nerd. i pretty much like all of school besides math... i hate math. i can do it, but i'm always flipping numbers everywhere and then things get messy. i even like doing hw sometimes.  okay, now i'm sure that i am a nerd... oh well. i still like me =]

so anyways, after my crazy workout at Ohlone, i picked up Nick from school. he always talks a lot in the car and i love it. today we where talking about Storm Troopers (he loves Star Wars) and then out of the blue he goes "hey Em, when i'm in 4th grade, will you still pick me up?" it was really cute (me or my family has watched him since he was 6 weeks old, so we're really close) but at the same time, it made me kinda sad. because, he's in 1st grade now, the means that i'll probably only be around for 2nd grade, then be off at school for 2 years, then who knows where i'll be? all i can say is, that little boy better get skype so we can still talk. because i will really miss him. one day, one of the kids in his class asked him who picked him up, he told them i was his best friend. they told him i was too old to be his friend. so now if anyone asks he calls me his aunt. last year, i was watching him and had to finish up some hw, he wanted me to play a game with him, but i had to tell him that i really needed to finish this for my class the next day. he looked at me and said "well tell your teacher i said to stop giving you so much homework so that you can play with me! it's better!" sometimes he just says the funnest things. i don't know what i would do without that boy. he also has taught me everything i know about baseball.

well i'm tired. so i think its time to move on. but rest assured that once school starts, you will have some more interesting blogs.
also, congrats to Rev. Matt Knapp on being installed as our official youth pastor =]

random fact
i love mustard. i will eat just straight up mustard. the smell also has no affect on me at all. and don't give me any kind besides French's. the rest are nasty.

ttfn,
emilie :)