on TV...kinda

I was watching studio 5 on Friday. It is a local news thing so it is a little more interactive with the public. So they were doing a poll that was what do you want for valentines...Flowers, or Chocolate. Since I am allergic to chocolate I wrote off an email to them. It was kind of like...I have to say flowers because I am allergic to chocolate. I like chocolate, but the benadryl that I have to take with it makes it less enjoyable. It was the first email read. I thought that it was really funny. I thought that it was going to be unique enough to get on. I was happy. I don't know why.

Field Trip pictures

Today we went up dry creek. It was really interesting. It has some pretty cool rocks. Here is a view out across the valley where we were. The hospital is on the left.

This is a load cast. If you see those little bulbs, when this sediment layer was deposited, it sunk into the sediments below it creating these bulbs. It was really cool to see because they aren't that common.
This shows a spot where there is 1.5 million years of sedimentation missing. The yellowish rock on the left is the Park City formation that was what we were looking at last week. The redish rock on the right is the woodside shale formation. If you see the lady in pink with a green bag, there is a fault to the left of her but before the guy in lime green. At that fault, there is the missing sediment. I think that is facinating.

This shows microfaulting in the park city formation talked about in the previous picture.

If you look at the bigger picture, I put in lines on the same layer that has been faulted. there are 3 faults that you can see in this picture. It is really cool.
This is a close up of a sample that I picked up. An amazing specimen of ripple marks.


At the tip of the pencil, you can see pretty good ripple marks in the rock. It was really cool!!
I hope that you enjoy the pictures that I take from my weekly field trips.

Slightly Disapointed but Not Surprised

I went to financial aid today and since I am in my 5th year, I no longer qualify for the SMART grant. That is unfortunate for me because I was really hoping for that money, but it is nothing that I need right now. I guess that Endrit and I will need to save a little bit more each month to pay off the rest of my semesters. It happens. I am not too surprised with this. It is an oh well. I have been overly blessed with financial help from grants and scholarships this last academic year so I have nothing to complain about.

projects

If anyone really wants to see some of the projects that I am working on with my technology class you can go to my Google site and under the projects link you can download all of the things that I have been working on the first few of weeks of school. The website itself was a project that I had to do for a grade...I got 100% on it if you were wondering. To open up to PowerPoint and the Newsletter, you will have to have Microsoft 2007. Sorry for you 2003 people. I have been having fun in my class. Technology has always been fun for me. I will be making a still picture movie as well later on that I will tell you all about. I just thought that I would share this with you.

.pptx

So I had to make a PowerPoint in my technology class on anything educational that I wanted. Not too bad. I have probably made upwards of 100 PowerPoints in my lifetime. Quite possibly more. I made on on Physical properties of matter. I would have to say that I did a really good job. Some of the specs on the assignment wouldn't be the way I would structure things, and that is why I have 2 of them saved. One the way my teacher wants it handed in, and one the way that I could quite possibly teach it to a class. It was fun. Endrit thinks that I did a good job. I don't think that I can actually put it on here, but I am proud of myself, and therefore I post.

Endrit's boss has stolen him away from me for lunch today, dinner last night and tonight. I can't even call Endrit today because of him being in meetings. There are people from Ohio that I are here collaborating so Endrit even had to go and pick up people from the airport. It has been an interesting start to the week for him.

I have my first quiz in my Environmental Studies class today. I was way too stressed last week to go to class, so I have a few more things that I need to study. I think I have an advantage to the subject area not being new to me. It may just be the quiz that I drop. I am not too conserned about it, though I probably should be. So, I have to wait for my middle class to start. Fun times of a university student.

Groundhog day

I just wanted to say happy groundhog day! What a surprise, he didn't see his shadow and there is 6 more weeks of winter. Yeah...it is WINTER! Duh! I don't understand this holiday, but it is kind of fun.

I just spent the last couple of hours doing homework for my technology class. I made a powerpoint and I wrote a post in my other blog about the benefits of technology use in the classroom. It has been a productive night. It is what happens when Endrit is eating out with his lab and some of the people that came in from Ohio. I like the alone time to do my homework. I am so productive.

26

It is Endrit's 26th birthday today. I am glad that it is on a Sunday so that he can just relax on his birthday. He deserves it. Things are going pretty well here.

I just learned that my host brother in law eloped last week and I couldn't be happier for him and his new wife! What a wonderful thing finding the one you will love for eternity is. I hope to be able to meet her sometime.

There really isn't much else to say. It is sunday and of course we had a blast with the kids. One of our older kids from last year even spent the later part of sacrament meeting with us. It is nice that 5-7 year olds like us.