They're Back!!!!

So the other day as I was in my bathroom, I looked down and noticed something black and it began to move very quickly. Yes, it was a spider! I live in a basement suite so during the summer and especially the fall I find spiders all the time! I hate them! I honestly get panic attacks haha, and I even have nightmares about spiders jumping at me! I know its crazy, I should be old enough to be over my fear, about the spiders in my house are frickin huge! and fast. I blame my fear on the fact that when I was a small kid my parents let me watch arachniphobia. At least thats what I will keep blaming it on.
Either way, I am not impressed because i know that within a few weeks I will have to be careful everytime I go into my bathroom. The worst situation is going for a shower and seeing a spider! It gives me the creeps just thinking about it!
I definately need to move

The End of an Era :(

So last night my campus rec floor hockey team began playoffs. We were playing against a team that we had never played before because during playoffs all teams from all the nights during the week play off against each other. So my team usually played on Tuesday nights, but during playoffs you play on any night that they schedule you.

So the game started off great! The scoring went back and forth for each team; it was very intense! The problem with our team is that we do not have a regular goalie, so we always alternate, which means that none of us are experinced in net. But either way the game was soo close for both halves.

The game eventually had to go to overtime. I was very nervous! Unfortunately we lost in sudden death overtime.

The worst part is that this is my last year to play campus rec, so no more floor hockey again! It was great to play and I will miss the girls on my team! I am excited to be done school, but I will definately miss campus rec, especially floor hockey.

Fanastic Concert

So on Friday night I got to see Billy Talent, Alexisonfire, and Against me at CUC. It was great!! I have seen Bily Talent before, but it was really nice to see Against me! All the bands had sooo much energy and sounded awesome! It is really great when you see a band live and they sound just like they do on their CD. L absolutely love going to shows and supporting artists. I think that going to shows is one way to really support the bands are just trying to make it.

I saw a lot of weird and funny stuff at the concert, but there was one incident that was just too much for me. (Again I will probably sound like a prune haha) So i had ground floor standing tickets and everything was fine, until this girl who was annoying in front of me she starts dancing but taking up all the room she wants to. I have a feeling she had not been to a lot of concerts before, I wanted to tell her, sorry but screw off I am not moving just so you have bounce around some more. I want to see too! But anyways, then her boyfriend comes in behind her, and they start kissing in front of everyone, and then she continues to dance or bounce or whatever, and then the boyfriend starts to touch her inappropriately! Like what the??? And her friend was standing right there beside them! Like come on, you're at a rock concert! You should be rocking out not getting groped! It may be dark in there, but it aint that dark! Can you not wait till after the show, geez.....

But despite the gropping, the show was awesome!

I still must say that my favourite band to see live thus far has been Rise Against!!

Food Addict or Just Meant to be Obese?

So I was trying to decide what to write about on my blog and while I was thinking and randomly checking email and what not I had realized that I ate all my crackers! I had only bought the crackers yesturday and I have already finished them off. Now it may not seem too bad, except that I find I do this all the time! I can not buy any food that tastes even remotely good, because I will eat it within hours!

I do counter act it by going running and playing sports, but my goodness that can not be enough for all the calories I eat in a day. If only I did not indulged in such bad food the gym would actually do something for me! I sometimes have no idea how I am not 200 pounds. I have no self control. When it comes to snacks I always over eat! One time, I even ate two large blizzards....

Things are fine right now because I am active, but I have no idea what is going to happen once I have kids.....

Doesnt look good. haha, but I do love food!

My Guilty Pleasure

So lately I have been staying up late on Tuesday nights to watch a tv show I am not proud of... 16 and pregnant. I know I know that it is just another stupid MTV show that is there to get ratings and we probably do not see the whole story because they edit it to their liking, but I still watch it.
I actually find it sad to see the girls going through everything. Of course there have been a few girls on the show, who to be nice, are not the brightest crayon in the box, but overall the girls are your average teenage who just so happened to fall in love with some dumb guy who thinks he is god's gift to women. In 9/10 shows I have seen the guy stays with the girl during her pregnancy, the whole time treating her like crap and calling her names, putting her down, being unreliable, then once the baby is born he leaves! There has only been one guy who was decent and stayed! ONE! I get so mad when I watch the show I want to yell at the tv and tell the immature boys to grow up and take some responsibility! The girls on the other hand are forced to grow up and deal with the situation, and they become great moms, but the guys just don't understand that the baby is theirs too!
One thing I do hope for is that young girls watch the show and pick better boyfriends....

Less is not more...

So I routinely try to go to the PAC and attempt to live a somewhat healthy life. However, today was a little weird for me, I mean usually there are girls there who look more done up than I do when I go out on a Friday night, and of the lululemon overload and the girls who go and ride the bikes for 10 minutes, but today was different. I guess people on our society have just become very comfortable, but as I was on the stair climber, I had glanced over and I saw a girl on the treadmill grab her shirt and completely pull in up to wipe off her sweat. Hmm.... I dunno, if I were her I would be a little more shy of everyone seeing me in a sports bar. I realize that a sports bar is the same thing as a bathing suit at the beach, but we were not at the beach!
Maybe I am just getting old and am way too conservative, I dunno. I just think that sometimes showing some skin can be sexy, but some people do not understand the limits, showing off everything that you got is not always the best way to go. I am never having daughters....

Concept Map

Here is my concept map for my proposal of my webquest!

Webquest Proposal

So my plan is to make a webquest for a biology 20 class because I find this will be far more useful to me than making an e-portfolio.
I want to propose a problem based learning for my students. I am tentatively thinking of giving them a scenario in which they are a new doctor in a small community in SK. They notice a trend of many patients comming in with the same symptoms. The students will find out after completing tests that it is a certain virus causes these problems. I am thinking about focusing on H1N1 since it has been so current in our lives. From here the students will have to learn about propertoes of viruses from structure to lifecycles. After learning about the basic, they will need to decide if a virus is living or non living. In biology 20 there is general concept of life and its characteristics.
After this I will have the students learn about vaccines the facts and myths. Finally I wnat the students to argue if it should be mandatory to have everyone vaccinated, since having children unvaccinated poses a threat to the rest of the community.

I plan on using notes that I have made up, from texts books, using utube videos, as well as uploading videos that I have found from educational sites on virus lifecycles, world health organization website, and the public health agency of canada to help teach the students about viruses and the flu. I of course still need to do some more research into good websites to use, but I do know that there is lots of information on the flu pandemic of 1918, and obviously lots on H1N1. I also have a great clincial microbiology textbook, so if need be I can simplify information and make brief notes for them. But I definately have some great videos that will enhance this assignment.

I think it is important for students to learn about viruses since these little things have and do have such an impact on our lives. The more informed a person is, the more educated and prepared they will be to make decisions such as gettng a vaccine or not.

Here are some of the curriculum objectives that I will cover:
Exhibit a curiousity about life and the conditions which support it.
Recognize the relationship between what is studies in biology and daily life.
Describe viral structure and activity.
Identitfy some diseases causes by viruses in plants, animals and humans prevalent in SK.

some websites I will be using:http://http://www.who.int/csr/disease/swineflu/en/
http://http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/alert-alerte/h1n1/faq_rg_h1n1-eng.php

http://http://www.phschool.com/webcodes10/index.cfm?fuseaction=home.gotoWebCode&wcprefix=cbp&wcsuffix=6192

http://http://glencoe.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0078695104/student_view0/unit5/chapter18/concepts_in_motion.html

As for evaluation of the assignment, I have not done any rubrics or anything, but I plan on getting them to explain the lifecycle of a virus, to debate if viruses are living or not living (give reasons why or why not) and then finally to debate if vaccination should be mandatory. I will have them to use simple knowledge, such as understanding the virus life cycle, and then have them evaluate and synthesis for the two debate questions. I will have both higher level thinking and basic thinking skills.

I do not have all the details yet, plus I know that once I get started and actually make the scenario, the fine details will change. I hope that by doing this assignment it will work on the students' research skills (finding out the infection the patients have), and on their critical thinking skills. I wnat them to think of all the ethical issues involved and what it really means to be living or non-living.

I will also attach my concept map of the problem/assignment

Oh the Bachelor...

So last night I watched the finale of the bachelor, and yes I do occassionally watch bad tv like that hahah. Anyways, the guy was torn between two women and he could not decide. The pathetic thing is that it was the day before he had to choose one of them and he was suppose to decide on a ring for one of them, but he couldn't! If you are going to ask one girl to marry you, don't you think it is not a good start when you obviously have strong feelings for someone else!!
Finally he chooses one and lets the other one go home, but before he lets her leave he tells her that she is perfect and he will always remember her.....how can you say that and then 2 minutes later propose to someone else!! Oh but I forgot its real love....
Who are these people who think that because you dated someone on national tv for 4 weeks means that you should get married! These people are nuts! But I guess it makes people like me suckers for actually watching it....