First Week of College!!

Hey everyone, 

It was 18 years ago that my family was told that I had a 13% chance of living to the age of 5. There were times when I wasn't supposed to make it through the night or come off of the ventilator after surgery. It was just this past year that I started my senior year in high school and graduated; something my family and doctors weren't sure I'd ever get to do. It was this past week that I started my freshman year in college, an experience that I wasn't sure I'd ever get to have. 

I'm not going to lie, on the drive up to my school; I was scared out of my mind. New school. New teachers. New students. People I wouldn't know or even recognize. While I appreciated the fact that I was given the opportunity to be able to go to college and have an experience we weren't sure I'd ever get to have, I was scared. Thankfully my sister told me about the First Year Experience at my college where I have all my classes with the same group of people; that way I get to know them easier and don't have different people in each class. Another thing to be thankful for, I did know one person in my class so that was nice. 

Because I miss so much school, the school asks another student in my class to take notes for me for when I'm not there. Well a girl named Sydney offered and she is extremely nice and I have sat with her and her friends  everyday since then. My teachers seem really nice and our class gets an Ipad 2 loaned to us to put our notes and text books on it. 

On a sad note, my friends left for Camp Del Corazon on Thursday morning and for the first time in 10 years, I will not be going. I can't wait to be able to go as a counselor next year. Camp was the place where we could all get together to laugh, share our stories, make friends, dance to Blame It On The Boogie and feel like a normal kid for once. Camp was the place that everyone had a scar and no one was made fun of for being different or slow. Camp is the place that I call home. 

Thanks for reading and have a great week!

Love,

Becca 

Driving Alert!!

Hey everyone!

So about a week ago or so I got my driver's permit after going to a full day of driving classes. The permit test was given at the school and I found out that day that I passed. A few days after that I went with my mom and I got my permit. Sadly I have to have 6 hours of driving with the school before I can get my license; and the school isn't available to give me driving time until September 9th and 11th. (I do 3 hours in 2 days.) So until then, I will be carpooling with my niece, and older sister on my way to school since my mom has to drop my niece off first, me second and my older sister last at her job. 

I have drive a total of four hours so far with my dad. We started off in the high school parking lot where we practiced parking, braking, backing up and turning. I have only done 1 curb check and hit only one barking plot out of the four days we have gone driving! Woo-hoo! Dad has already had me drive him and myself all the way to Paradise Valley Community College. I must say, being out on the major streets is very intimidating and scary. I have a problem where when I'm making a turn in the intersection I press the gas pedal because I want to get out of the intersection but I end up taking the curb too fast. :P I hate being out in the middle of the intersection because I am afraid someone is going to come through it and crash into me. I also just take turns too fast too begin with, or I press the brake in the middle of a turn or near the end because I don't have a feel yet for just "coasting through a turn" as my dad calls it. But all in all I think I am doing pretty well. I just get a little nervous so I make jerky movements. I also need to learn how to keep a constant speed, I tend to speed up then slow down and then speed up again instead of staying on a constant speed. Thankfully I have mastered speed bumps. . . mostly. Wish me luck and stay off the road for a bit! 

Love,

Becca 

Cold in the Summer?!

Hi everyone!!

Sorry I haven't posted in a while! I have been really busy. Let me just catch you up on a few things that are going on in my life right now. 

So all last week I woke up before 9 AM (GASP! In the summer time that is a miracle for me. Ha ha.) and I helped out at Vacation Bible School at my church. The first half of the first day I walked around taking pictures of all the little kiddos; feeling like a creeper. :P They would all stop what they were doing and ask their teachers, "Why is that girl taking pictures of us?" Thankfully all the teachers knew who I was and we all helped to reassure them that I was allowed to take their pictures. The second half of the day the lady helping run VBS asked me to go help out the in the nursery since the person they thought would be helping there hadn't shown up. So it was me and this wonderful woman named Dinna taking care of 5 kids all under the age of 3 for a whole week! Now I LOVE kids, I adore them! I think they are the cutest things in the whole world and very precious. BUT, they can be crazy. By the end of the week I had at least one scratch on my body from each kid in that nursery. I must say though, all the kids were very well behaved when someone in another classroom pulled the fire alarm and we have to evacuate the building. (Well behaved as in they didn't try to run away; but there was screaming, crying and panic.) I am not very strong so picking up a sleeping baby, (who thank God slept through the whole thing) and a two year old was a bit difficult, especially when another child is clinging onto your leg; not letting you walk. Thankfully that day we had another girl helping us. I can honestly say though, I never want to be in a nursery full of kids when the fire alarm goes off again. Ever. However, I would volunteer my time again at a nursery; maybe just not five days out of the week because I cam home a little after lunch time feeling exhausted. I have NO idea how my mom and dad did it with 10 kids living in one house at the same time. I don't know how they do it now, and there are only 6 kids living at home and things are still crazy for them! Gave me a whole new perspective on being a parent; and I wasn't even with the kids for more than 3 hours!

So with that whole week gone and me being exhausted; naturally my body isn't very strong and I somehow catch a cold in the summer. Summer time! Normally this is my best time of the year! But no, here I am with a stuffed up nose, scratchy throat and my lungs full of junk. I went to the doctors yesterday and they gave me a burst of steroids to help so that should work and I am taking my inhalers every 3 to 4 hours as well. My little sister also had a cold earlier this week and my niece is being taken to the doctor today to see if she has strep throat since her throat is killing her. I got checked and I don't have it, thankfully. 

Other than that not much else has been going on. We did host the Youth Group Pool Party at our house for our church. That was fun except that was the day I was starting to feel sick. On the bright side though, I did get to eat my nachos. =) 

Well I am going to go lay down and rest now! Love you all! 

Becca