this week in my very first web class......

We read many poems for the first two weeks of class. I like poetry, but I like the kind that speaks to me. I did find one poem that did. It was an unexpected poem for the most part, I did not think I would come across one that would bring up such an emotional response from me. The poem is Lord Byron's "When We Two Parted." A poem about the death of one’s love.


After reading this poem and readiing the responses left by my classmates and returning to read my own response I felt like I resoponed to the question based on my own emotional connection to the poem I would have much rather been more anylitical. Each peron in the class had something different and insightful about the poem and what it had meant to them when they wrote it.



I guess what I need to say is as I go to bed a lone tonight in the bed once owned not by me but by my own lost love I will take Lord Byron’s words with me and know I am not truly the only person on earth that has experinced such pain, and I guess I will not be the last. These are the matters of life for all the ages! I will never understand why morning is such culturally unacceptable, if someone has left you they give you days maybe weeks and expect you to get back to normal and be your old self but the truth is that it never happens. Just like in the poem Long, long shall I mourn thee, RVC.

Introductions

Hi, I started this blog as a class assignment for a college course I am taking. I thought I would give you some brief tidbits about me as s student, a professional, and my private life.

I am currently a graduate student just a few classes away from graduating with my masters in early childhood. I have previously graduated from the same university with a Bachelor’s in 2005. When my degree plan is compete I will have about 250 credit hours. I am taking the class because it looked like fun, I am thinking getting another degree and would like to see what on line classes were like. This is not my first blog. I have a blog on My space where I share pictures with friends and family members.

I breed dogs for a living. My dogs are Lhasa Apso’s. Their named after Greek gods and goddesses. Zeus, Hera, Eris, and Poseidon. My children love Greek mythology they have named our cat Andromeda as well. I also teach a summer math camp for children grade 4/8 where we cover higher level mathematical concepts such as 3-d tessellations and hyper-cubes.

Most of my private time is spent being Mommy to two wonderful and bright children. My children are competitive baseball and softball players and it is entirely possible for me to attend 10 games in a weekend for a total of 14 a week. So, as you can imagine with practice thrown in here and there mostly I am a ball mom. I do find some time to enjoy other things. I am the president of a social sorority chapter of Beta sigma Phi, my chapter is Alpha Delta. If the kids and I have a weekend off the kids and I will visit ghost towns here in Oklahoma. There are many ghost towns around even in our county. The kids and I will visit and take pictures of old buildings, cemeteries, and other interesting things we might find along the way. We enjoy learning about the places we see.