It's finally the end of the summer semster!!!

This past week was the end of the summer semester.  I am on pins and needles waiting for my grades to post.  I am pretty sure that I did very well in my Reading Endorsement Course.  In this course I was able to develop a plan and tutor a student for six weeks.  It was a short period of time but it was still a great learning experience.  I also took Emergent Literacy.  This course was incredibly difficult.  The professor was nice, but the course was set up in such a way that it challenged me more than any other course that I have taken thus far in my course work.
More importantly this weekend was an incredibly amazing weekend.  My best friend in the education program got married on Saturday.  AND while we were at her reception, I got news that my best friend of the past 5 years was in labor.  She is like a sister to me and I was so excited to know that my niece was about to be born.  She recently moved out of the state (back closer to her home state and her family) and as excited as I was it was bittersweet knowing that it will be awhile before I can see her and my niece.  She has another daughter and I have known her since she was two days old (technically since before she was born) so it is very weird to know that this relationship will be much different.
Since I'm off of school for the next two week's I'm hoping that I will be able to post a little more frequently.  I've finished some books that I want to review and I would love to post some more updates.  I hope all is well with everyone as they get ready for back to school.

~ Christine

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