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Life is SO Good

Life is so great right now. SO great. For just so many reasons! I love spring term!

-I LOVE my classes! LOVE them. I'm just taking two, which is great and both are for my major. The first class I'm taking is all about how to incorporate students with disabilities into our classrooms. I'm learning SO much and I just love the class! The other is Instructional Design, basically how to design a curriculum which sounds super boring, but my professor is incredible! He presents the material in such an interesting way, and everything that I'm learning is going to be so useful in my future career!

-For my class on incorporating students with disabilities, I am doing practicum, which basically means going into a school for a few hours a week and working with kids. My hectic schedule gave me only two 2 hour windows during the week in which to complete this assignment in a first grade class at Wasatch Elementary, which is across the street from the BYU campus. It has been SO much fun!  Yesterday I had a super cool experience. I was working on reading with a little boy who just could not focus. I kept reminding myself to be patient, and finally found an approach that motivated him to complete his work. When he finished, I told him what a great job he had done. He goes, "You're right Miss Sarah, I DID do a great job!" It's moments like that one that I will get to experience all the time in my future career. It made me SO happy to see this little boy so proud of his achievements and progress! Also it's hilarious how like half the class asked me if I was married. Only in Provo...

-I've made some awesome new friends at work and in my ward! We've had some awesome adventures and it's been so much fun!

-I'm living in my same apartment with my best friend Alyssa, and this other girl named Mia and I can literally count on one hand the number of times of seen her/spoken to her so basically it's just Alyssa and I living here and it's been a blast! She's so great and I'm so lucky to have a best friend like her to share my BYU experience with!

-My job is great. I'm working a lot, earning good money, and working with awesome people! We're always joking around and our customers think we're nuts, but it's cool.

-My grandparents are coming to visit in a few weeks, and I get to spend a weekend at Yellowstone Park with my grandma and great aunt Colleen! I am SO excited! I've never been and I've heard it's incredible!

-I'm FINALLY getting an iPhone and it is currently on it's way to my apartment.

-I got to Skype with my best friend Elder Frederickson on Sunday. He is doing amazing and I am so proud of him!

Life is SO good. I am so blessed!



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