I have been really busy with Christmas with Wartburg lately. Since I have been busy this is one of the first times that I have been really stressed this year. It isn't that I haven't been busy all year, it's just that I think it is all final hitting me. My break was nice and helped me a little bit, but coming back today just made me realize how little time I have left in this semester and I think it just kind of stressed me out a little bit. People tell me that my sleep schedule can really affect my level of stress, sleep is not always m strong suit and sometimes my sleep schedule gets a little off. Since Christmas with Wartburg I have been way off on my schedule even more. I really love it here and I know this is just normal college stress, but it is one of the first times that I have noticed it affecting me.

I do not feel good at all. It hit me really hard on Friday and I thought it would go away, but I still don't feel very good. Tomorrow is my grandmas funeral, and I a supposed to sing in it. I really hope that I feel better so that I am able to sing well  and sing the best I can for the funeral. I am really hoping that the funeral is a nice service, this is the first funeral that I have gone to that I can remember. I went to one when I was very young and I do not remember that service. I a hoping that this cold goes away before tomorrow because I would feel very bad if my performance didn't sound good.

Today for field experience I got to help one of the students who was struggling in math. When I am there I usually correct papers and help students if they need help, but today the teacher asked if I would be willing to try and help a student catch up. He came over and I taught him new methods for multiplying till he learned a method that worked the best for him. He is still confused, but it was so great to be able to help him. After helping him the teacher told me he has never resounded so well, and she thinks it is because I was a male and he responded better because of that. Before I left the teacher was very grateful and told me that we need more people like me in the field. It really made me feel good to not only be able to help the student, but to be able to make an impression on my field experience adviser. I really think that I am going to like teaching and I cant wait to get more experience, and then actually become a teacher.

The visit I had with my friend went really well. I was so glad to see her and we had a lot of fun. She was busy for part of the day so during the time of her interviews and such I worked on some homework and such, but when I was able to hang out with her it was a lot of fun. She thinks that her interview went well, and her parents bought shirts and were very excited and really liked the campus which is a good sign. She really wants to come her and the cost seems kind of intimidating to her so this day was a very big deal to her and I am glad that it went really well. I got to show her around campus a little bit and then I was able to go to Applebees with her and her parents and it was really nice to eat off campus and to be able to just sit and talk with her. I am really glad I got to talk with her and this visit shows that I need to come home more often so that I can still keep up with the people I don't get to see why I am here.

Tomorrow someone from my home town will be visiting for scholarship day. She is one of the best friends that I have from high school. I am very excited to get to see her and I am very excited that she is considering Wartburg. She is not sure where she is going, but I am glad that she is considering Wartburg. The friend who is coming is one of the people that told me to visit Wartburg, she found out about the college when she was at an explore college day. She liked the booth and I was thinking about visiting and she told me I should and then I feel in love with the campus and I couldn't be happier that I picked Wartburg. I am really glad that I get to spend a day with her and that I get to catch up with her. I really hope that she comes to Wartburg next year so I can see her more, but I am just really glad that I get to see her tomorrow and I hope her visit goes well.

I performed for my first time at seminar over the weekend. As part of my music scholarship I am required to be in a music ensemble, and have private lessons once a week. As part of the lessons you have seminar, seminar is like a lesson but you sing in front of a group. I really enjoy my seminar group and they are all really kind and helpful. For seminar all the first years had to sing, I thought my piece went really well and all the other members of the seminar were very helpful. Even when the members gave critiques they seemed very genuine and kind about the help they were giving. I think I have grown a lot in my music abilities this year and I am very grateful to Warturg for that.

During this week of school here at Wartburg I have been playing the campus wide game of humans vs zombies. The game is like a huge version of tag. Me and my group of friends have been playing and we are still humans. In the game zombies will come after and tag the humans, once a human is tagged they become a zombie. Last night me and my friends went swimming, after swimming we looked and saw that zombies were waiting for us. We decided to run and we hid in a car for over thirty minutes. The game seems to be drawing to an end, me and my friends are one fourth of the humans left in the game. The game has been a lot of fun, but I have had to avoid going to the Mensa and I have had to take really long routes to get to class. Even though the game has been fun I am kind of looking forward to this all to go back to normal.