The Old Farmer's Hall at RBHS

My two oldest daughters attended Red Bud High School. The eldest graduated in 1991 and the second eldest in 1995, so I am familiar with the old "Farmer's Hall" at RBHS. My eldest grandson is now a sophomore at RBHS and tells me this hall no longer exists. I thought about asking Colin if they had replaced this hall with "Gothic Hall" or something, but I haven't seen a lot of gothic people hanging around in Red Bud, so I thought I'd leave that comment alone. Thank God my Colin is a "jock" or are they called "athlete" today? However, back in the day, the school had one certain hall where the local farm boys and their "red neck" friends would congregate. That tells me that farmers and red-necks were basically in the same catagory at the old RBHS. My second daughter and her group of friends liked hanging out in Farmer's Hall, too! Amy ended up marrying one of those boys. Tim is from Rocher and is an awesome man, son-in-law, a wonderful husband, and fabulous father. I have liked ole' Tim-Bob, though, since the day Amy brought him home to meet her parents. Doing my research on the Nuernberger Farm, I have had the opportunity to meet a lot of farmers lately and in my personal experience, I have found them to be very kind and giving people. Oh, some like to complain and some seem to always find the "glass half empty", but when push comes to shove, they have a heart of gold and a helping hand to always lend. The old Farmer's Hall at RBHS may have fresh paint and new faces today, but for a lot of RBHS alumni, I would love to hear some of the stories told in that hallway back in the day.

Changing my course

I am taking a pre-entrance exam at Beck Center on November 1st for their LPN program. After talking to a few RN friends I have, they have told me that I would be just as well off to go to Beck for my LPN degree. Today's RN is mostly stuck charting, unless I want to go further in college and get a higher degree. And I don't. I'm already tired. I am not signing up for any spring classes at SWIC. Not yet anyway. I will not get into Beck's LPN program until at least July of 2011, so I am just gonna take a break from school until that time. But until December, I have to strive to do my best here at SWIC with what I've started. I have to try to get those A's in algebra, english, and my speech class. Apparently, the more pre-reqs you have from college courses, the better. Even for the LPN program. I am proud of the way algebra has clicked for me. Too bad I will forget it as soon as this semester is over. I know I will. But as for english, I have learned a lot about expressing myself in writing and am enjoying doing this paper on the Nuernberger farm. I have so much to write about I don't know what to omit!! I will miss this class when it's over. I will!

Still behind and frustrated!

I have been in the Success Center these past few weeks trying my best to catch up on Algebra and English. Hannah and Lydia are the tutors in the Success Center are they are both great! Since I have been visiting there so often, I have become very attached to them. Not only are they a lot of help, but sometimes we just have a great laugh, and that is very good medicine for me when I'm feeling a tad bit overwhelmed! Even though Hannah is there for Math and Lydia is there for English tutoring, they are both able to help me with either class I may need help in. Last week a student in Mr. Nadziejko's English 101 class told me we were to be following fifty students on our blogs. I cannot figure out how to add these students! I wonder if I missed class the day he told us how or showed us how? Now that I have dropped two classes, I do have the time to catch up, but then I get stuck trying to figure out how to do things on this blog site and I get really frustrated! Lydia has had Mr. Nadziejko as an instructor before, but she is not familiar with blogspot. Hannah is not too familiar with it either. Oh well, I will have my act together by Thursday at my conference with him and will let him know about this problem. As far my ethnology report, can anyone tell me how long the final draft is suppose to be on the 19th? I don't have that answer either!! Also, if you know how I can add these people to follow, please let me know that too! Have a great week all!

Way too busy!!!

I don't know about anyone else in my class, but I am feeling a big overwhelmed right now. I have been trying to get caught up in English, but I have had other papers to write in two other classes, plus I had a big algebra test last Friday, and I am a bit behind in English class. I guess I will be writing my four page rough draft on butchering because Vic found an antique artifact and it has to do with butchering. I will make this as interesting to all of you as possible, I promise. As tired as I am, I still try to find humor in life. I also have some pictures to bring in of a butchering season in the past, so I hope you all have strong stomachs. Some are gross, but it is all part of the butchering game. I am fortunate to be able to write now on butchering, though, because they do this in December and my paper might be due before they actually do this year's butchering, so this may work out for the best. I am anxious to see how many of you will still want to eat pork chops, pork steaks, ham, bacon or any other pork after you see some of these pictures!! Have you ever heard of "Head Cheese"? Oh, how totally gross!