Hello everyone,

So today was the first day of the "Field Experience" part of my Human Growth and Development class.  What I have to do is spend 3 hours once a week in a child care setting.  I have to choose a "focus child" that I will take detailed observations on and write analysis based on the observations.  Today I had to go and get aquainted with the center, the teachers and kids.  I got palced in the "older infant" rooms, the kids are about 9-13 months.  I had to pick-out a focus child if possible and leave the paper work for the parents.  I picked my focus child, he is just getting ready to walk and I thought that it was a good age to observe motor skills and such.  Anyway, I had a fun playing with the kids.  It will be fun going there on Thursday mornings.

So the rest of my day was pretty much a blur b/c I had math class and hour after I got back from placement and History of Drama, which is a 3 hour class, 15 minutes after math (got that? no? well it was busy anyway!)

The cafateria was closed tonight because the consortium that Wheelock is a part of, Colleges of the Fenway, had a "Fall Festival and Block Party" at Wentworth.  There were tons of people there and I signed up to win free airline tickets and a $25,000 shopping spree at H&M.  They also had a obstacle course, a jump house, a strength test kind of thing, and a climbing wall.  Mary Beth and I did the obstacle course (she won 3 times), the climbing wall (she won again) and the strength test (I won!).  We had lots of fun.

Well I'll write again soon!

~Julie