Teaching at London

I taught in London on Friday. The lesson went awesome. Each student was able to take away a loaf of bread to make. The students understood bio-products and polymers fairly well. I love Miss Dana Snyder, she is the best cooperating teacher ever. I am going to have such a great time with her next fall.

Cousin Shawn Graduates

Today I experienced the shortest graduation ever. My cousin Shawn graduated today. He was in a class of twenty-nine students. From the time the graduates processed in and recessed out the total time 40 minutes. It was a very interesting because the valedictorian and the salutatorian did not speak. This was the first graduation that I experienced this. Also it seemed to me that they had three different commencement speakers. All of them were fairly good but it was just interesting.

After the ceremony we checked into the hotel and immediately was sent to the basement because the tornado sirens were going off. This was also interesting because the hotel lost power. So when the all clear was given that the storm had passed we went out to dinner. Then came back and went swimming for almost 2 hours. I am exhausted but I still have a lot of work between now and Wednesday. So I guess I will get back to work.

Methods Final is over

Today I took the longest final in my college career. It was the final for my Methods of Teaching Agriculture. The surprising thing was I study for about 4 hours last night and I knew most of the information on the exam. I only struggled on a few things and I a fairly confident that I received an A on both the final and in the class. I know that I still have to complete one more unit before the class is officially over, but I am fairly certain that I can't get below an A on it either. I am glad that this quarter is almost over, however I will miss the people in my BLOCK as I student teach and prepare to entire the workforce. I know that they will be my colleagues, but it just will not be the same. I just want to thank all of my BLOCK mates for making the last 9 weeks the best 9 weeks of my life.

Graduation Sunday

My Alma Mater held graduation ceremonies for the 45 graduating seniors on Sunday. It is hard to believe that 3 years ago I was standing in their shoes. I can't believe that next year I will be graduating from The Ohio State University. The best part of graduation wasn't the ceremonies or the parties it was the knowledge I gained before I went to Graduation. My brother showed me how to change the brake pads and rotors on my car. It is not that difficult to do. All you have to do is remove the hub cap and tire. Then you unscrew 2 screws with an Allen wrench. Once the caliper in off you can remove the brake pads. Slip the new ones into place and put the new rotor on and you are ready to reassemble. It was awesome because he explained and showed me how to do it on one side and then he let me do it on the other side. It was a great experience and yes my brother is certified to work on vehicles.

Uncle Floren

On Saturday, I was able to travel to Huron, Ohio to help my Great Uncle celebrate his 90th Birthday. Not only did he turn 90 but him and his wife will celebrate their 60th wedding anniversary at the end of the month. It was great to see all of my family even though I have never meet most of them because they live out of state. The last time that all of us were together I wasn't born. My Great Uncle Floren was more like my grandpa growing up because his grandchildren were out of state and my grandpa (his brother) died when I was pretty young. It just worked out well. I am so glad that I was able to help him celebrate this milestone.

CFAES Recognition Banquet

So last Thursday was the 58th Annual CFAES Recognition Banquet. It was awesome I had a great time planning the event. I was on the program committee and they looked pretty sweet. I am always amazed at how awesome the banquet hall looks before it was absolutely beautiful. Not only did I help with the programs I helped assembly the salad plates. It only took us an hour and a half to assembly over 600 salads. It was a great experience. I would recommend that everyone be on the committee next year!!!!

CFAES Recognition Banquet

On Thursday, The College of Food, Agriculture, and Environmental Science will be hosting the 58th Annual Recognition Banquet at the Archie Griffin Grand Ballroom in the Union. I was able to server on the Steering Committee for this event and I am excited to see how it will go. I helped design the Programs so if you are planning on attending check out my skills. Also if you have not already purchased a ticket you can do so by going to Ag Admin Room 100 or Kottman Hall 210 to purchase your ticket. Tickets are $10 each. It will be a great time to honor the students, and faculty of this college. I can't wait to see who wins the awards. It will be a great time so please come out and join us. The entire committee has put in a lot of time and work to make the Banquet great.

Relay for Life

This weekend has been very busy. Friday was SGAD (see previous post), Saturday and Sunday I spent my time walking for Relay for Life. Over the weekend I spent about 13 hours walking to raise awareness for Cancer. If you figure on average that a person can walk about a mile every 15 minutes, so I walked about 4 miles every hour. So, if you multiple 4 miles per hour and I walked for 13 hours that equals 52 miles. I would never have thought that I would walk that much in a 24hour time span. Lets just say Sunday afternoon I was exhausted. Even though I was exhausted I could not be more proud that I was able to help raise money for cancer research. As of Sunday when we had raised over $115,000 to be put towards cancer research here at The Ohio State University. I was so excited to be a part of such an awesome group. If you have not participated in a Relay for Life event you should because it is an awesome experience. I would also like to take this time to thank everyone who came out to support the cause.

SGAD

Last Friday, I had a opportunity to participate in the 13th Annual Miki Zartman Scarlet and Gray Ag Day (SGAD).  I love participating in this event because it give me a chance to promote agriculture to students who have no idea about agriculture. For those of you who don't know SGAD brings about 600 students in 4th and 5th grade to The College of Food, Agriculture and Environmental Science. The students will attend various sessions, I was able to teach a session of food science. In my session the students were able to rehydrate food and we talked about why it was important to dehydrate food. I throughly enjoyed my lesson. Not only did I get to teach students about food science, I was able to teach them about 4-H and the impact it had on my life. I believe that SGAD is a great program and I can not wait to be on the committee next year to help plan this outstanding event.

FFA Convention + State Band and Choir Contest= Awesome Weekend

This weekend was a great. I was able to be a judge at the AgriScience Fair on Thursday. I was a judge for the Natural Science category. The students had some awesome projects and there were a couple of students that projects blew me away. Then I had the opportunity to help plan the Ag Engineering CDE. I helped with the team event of laying a concrete block corner. Our group ended up moving about 120 concrete blocks. It took us an hour and a half to get cleaned up. Overall the students enjoyed the contest, but we were exhausted.
On Friday, I had the opportunity to work registration at the FFA Convention. I enjoyed seeing and talking to the students and the FFA Advisors while working. I also on Friday got the chance to get out of the Convention mind setting and was able to watch another love of mine the OMEA Band and Choir State Contest at Gahanna. I am glad there were some scheduling conflicts that allowed my high school to be able to come to Gahanna to perform because I was able to go and watch. It brought back some great memories from when I was in high school and competing the the contest. The Choir received an Overall Superior Rating and the Band received an Overall Excellent Rating. Overall I am proud to say I am an Alumni of both the band and choir. I am also proud of the members in my FFA Chapter that received their State Degrees. I am proud to by an Alumni of the Arcadia FFA as well. It has been one awesome week.

Excited to Teach

Last week my classmates and I had the opportunity to teach a lesson on agricultural engineering at Barrington Elementary. I also was able to teach this lesson at one of the Elementary's in Canal Winchester. This was a great experience because I was able to teach to students that were excited to learn about what I was teach. Not to hurt any of my BLOCK classmates' feeling, but these students were much better that you all. After teaching these two lessons I remember exactly why I want to be a teacher. I want to improve the lives of the next generation. I am so excited to teach at Scarlet and Gray Ag Day because those students will be just as excited. Scarlet and Gray Ag Day is next Friday, but there is so much that needs to be done before then.