What A Week

Have you ever had one of those weeks where just one thing after another gets piled on top of you? This week I've had New Student Orientation with my son at OSU. Business stuff for the church that in ignorance I messed up and now have to get straightened out. And last but not least VBS. I am tired in a major way.

This was the first year that OSU had new student orientation for it's transfer students and my son was grumbling about it. His thinking was I've been doing this for several years now why should I go to new student orientation. But they had set this up for specifically transfer students, so it wasn't on a freshman level. They talked to them about how OSU did things and why classes did or didn't transfer and what available and expected of them at this level. It really worked out well and when they were done we were both glad we came.

I know that in this day and age, at this level, education is a money making business. On the other hand OSU is really trying hard to provide a good product. They want to be known, at least on the engineering side of the house, for providing the students who are eagerly snatched up by the business community due to their abilities. They advised the students coming into the engineering college that "Most students think that they should work on their resumes in their senior year but we want you to work on them now. You will use them not just to get jobs, but to get internships as well. We want you to leave here with not just one internship but rather two to three. This will help make you valuable to the job market."

Not only that but they also have a co-operative program with certain companies where you maintain your status as a full time student while you do three semesters working full time over a two year period. This is important to us because he could use the money but he needs to be a full time student for health and car insurance purposes. Not only that but it gives him a leg up in the job market. Most companies want to hire their co-op students after they finish school and will start their benefit package out as if they have been an employee for a year. If for some reason you choose not to go to work for them then on your resume you get to list not only your education and internships but a years employment as an engineer. Plus, as long as you turn your paper work in to your instructor on time, it's an easy A. As Martha Stewart would say "A's, their a good thing."

VBS is a mad house. I have had one student for three years in my 3rd and 4th grade VBS class. He must have fluncked some where along the way because Belle, our VBS director said that he and another boy actually still belonged in the 3rd and 4th grad class but that she took one look at some of the other boys in that class and decided to let the two of them go to mine, (5th and 6th.) One boy is a little slow and so struggles with the work but he is a good kid. The other though is very ADHD and is desperatly craving attention. I wish in a certain way that I just had him, I think it would help him to have one on one attention. The reality though is that I have a class full of students, slow ones, bright one, and others who craving the attention they don't get at home as well. It's hard to meet the needs of them all. He needs the attention desperately though. When he doesn't get as much as he wants he begins acting out and becomes very disruptive. Pray for him, and for me that I can find a way to meet his need.

Finally, Pray for my husband. Not much gets done around here during VBS. The house doesn't get cleaned, meals are catch as catch can. My husband is a good guy though and puts up with it in good nature. The last couple of years he has been as involved as I am. I guess it's an if you can't beat 'em, join 'em attitude. Still he diserves better than bologna or scranbled eggs for dinner.

Well I've got to go. In truth I really didn't have the time to sit and write this but I didn't want people worrying about me for being gone too long. Friday is the last day of VBS, hopefully I have more time after that. Wishfull thinking I know, but still.....