changes

(sorry, no pictures.)

new school
i'm now officially a sun devil. i survived my first week of school at the polytechnic campus. actually, quite the contrary, i thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it. i love (so far..) all of my professors and classes. (i'm taking 18 credits between gcc and asu, so we'll see how long i can go before i get burned out...) one of my professors at asu is australian! it's pretty fun to listen to his accent when he lectures. and to top it off i've made alot of friends already. friends who i think i will be, or could be friends with for a long time. i see alot of the same faces in all of my classes, so it's really fun. needless to say, i think i was a little more than excited my first day over the fact that i had already made so many friends. just ask my husband or my mother... i called them both the first day while driving on my way home. :) it just makes a difference when you have friends at school, ya know? and especially when you are there all day. literally. i'm there from 9 am - 5:45 pm. (and not to mention my hour commute each way.) and the first week of school there were no labs... long story short, i had about a 3 and 1/2 hour break until my next class. so i was very happy when it turned out not to be a lonely 3 and 1/2 hour break.

another tid bit of excitement: i found out i can get a FULL refund for my parking pass! i found out from another girl that we can supposedly park in the chandler-gilbert community college parking lots for free! i didn't know this, but i guess chandler-gilbert community college has a few buildings on the asu east campus. saWEET! it is a little bit further of a walk, but i'll gladly walk a little more each day for free than pay for that baby. it's just too much wasted money in my opinion.

and last but not least bit of news on arizona state: my parents are coming this next saturday just in time for some asu football. we're going to a conference game and they're playing stanford. i cannot wait! sun devil stadium is where the cardinals use to play. so i think it's safe to say it's gonna be on a little bit bigger scale than a weber state game... haha! my dad is tickled pink.

new jobs: i still have 3 jobs. because keeping things simple is just too easy.

job #1: personal trainer
i've been working at a personal training and group fitness studio for about a month now and i'm really enjoying it. although i'm not nationally certified yet, last semester i completed the personal training program at glendale community college and they hired me. and last friday i completed the employee/trainer's test they have at work. it's such a great place to start out and i'm learning alot. i'm excited that my classes at school will finally correlate with my job. i'm also planning on this being my internship for school right before i graduate.

job #2: babysitter/nanny
i'm babysitting again this year, but different kids. it's kind of a complicated story to explain. so just ask me if you want to know details... but i'm watching two two year olds one day a week. so they keep me busy! but they're darling kids and generally pretty easy because they just play together. it's going well.

job #3: goodbye la fitness, hello gold's gym!
and of course, i'm still teaching turbo kick! but only one day a week. it's my passion and i seriously would be fine if that's all i did all day every day! ...maybe some day. i'm no longer teaching at la fitness because it just conflicted with my school schedule. but i might resume teaching one of my classes there next semester. it just depends on my crazy schedule. but for now, i'm teaching at gold's and let's just say if i taught alot of classes there i would be making bank! the pay is seriously great. maybe when my life calms down i can get certified in other formats and teach them all. i would love to teach hip hop, body pump and yoga/pilates as well. but sometimes i have to remind myself (or jeff does usually) that i can't do everything all at once, even though i want to. i usually end up spreading myself too thin, so it's good i have a husband who can see the big picture and remind me to simplify a little.

and new rotations
jeff just finished his first 2 rotations in his 3rd year of medical school and will be starting his 3rd rotation in internal medicine tomorrow. his first rotation was in utah in ophthalmology, which he absolutely loved. it was fun to see him so excited about what he was learning and just confirmed to him even more, that ophthalmology is what he wants to specialize in. the doctors he worked with were wonderful and so nice to let him rotate there since he was the first medical student to do so. kind of a small world, one of the doctors was in my parents ward. so he saw him at work and church!

his 2nd rotation he just finished up on friday, was in pediatrics. it was also a really nice, more cush rotation. he had some stories about the funny things kids say and do. the doctor he worked with was great with kids. it will be interesting to see how his internal medicine rotation will be since we've heard it is more intense.

well, we're off to the pool to enjoy some sun on this labor day holiday. we're lame and can't think of anything else better to do today. but we might as well catch some rays and spend some time together while we can, right? hope all of you have a good day off and enjoy your holiday!