Camp Dogwood the Prequel

Hey everybody! I am back from Camp Dogwood now. However, since I have work at the library and other things to catch up on, I will not be able to properly share all my stories of Camp Dogwood just yet. I hope to type something up when I have the time. But as of this moment...that will not be happening any time soon.
Just letting yall know I am still alive, and here at Gardner-Webb.
Much Love,
Joni

Extra Information on the Schedule

Also...Every week on Tuesday nights, GWU has the Verge. Which is a worship service, with a live rock band. They have drums,electric guitar,acoustic guitar,bass,keyboard and a couple of singers. One of them plays the acoustic guitar at the same time as he sings.
And...every other Wednesday night at 8:00-whenever we get done, there is SGA meetings.
Any other events that I go to I will try to tell y'all about them.
This morning they had a very interesting Dimension's service. They had a firefighter who was one of the first to respond at the Pentagon on Sept. 11th 2001. He will also be the key speaker at the Verge tonight. Tonight the Verge will be at 7:00 instead of 8:00 because he is from VA; he has to catch a flight from the Charlotte airport.
But I gotta go, I have a paper to type up, that is due tonight in English. Also I will be having a meeting with my English professor over my first paper. My goal is to figure out what exactly does he want in my writing...
well hope y'all have a nice day!
Joni

My Schedule

I thought it would be good to tell y'all my schedule, so that y'all can know the best time to contact me.

My Class Schedule
Mondays Wednesdays Fridays
I have 9:00,10:00,12:00,1:00 classes.
Tuesdays and Thursdays
I have 9:30,1:15,6:00 classes.
On Fridays I have an 8:00 ASL Lab.

My Work Schedule
Sunday 4:00-6:00
Monday 8:30-11:00
Tuesday 11:00-12:00
Wednesday 2:00-3:30, 10:00-11:00
Thursday 11:00-1:00

Also I will be working my last Saturday of the Semester this Saturday.

This weekend I will be working, the following weekend, I will be off campus, going to Camp Dogwood. Camp Dogwood is a deaf-blind camp they have here in NC. I will be helping out by SSP's...
One very exciting thing, they have a video phone here in the Library at Gardner-Webb! So if y'all want to talk(using sign language), just ask my momma for the number.
Joni

Work-Study

I thought of a nice topic to discuss...the lovely world of work-study. Which the title in of itself is quite deceiving. or at least for the "work-study" I am involved with...there is only work, with maybe if you are lucky an minimal amount of study time permitted. But it's okay, I am working at the Library. Which is interesting because I was assigned the stacks E-G to "shelf read." For the uninitiated, shelf reading is the old art of perusing the shelves to remedy any irregularities. If a book is wrongly mis-shelved by a patron (who are not supposed to shelf any books in the first place...) it is the shelf reader's job to find the pre-said irregularities and fix them. Sounds easy enough, but the first few days of work they did not even let me near a shelf, it is because we use the ever so difficult classification system of the Library of Congress. Which I might add the library at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary does not even stoop to use! humph...well now I am well versed in the Art of Classification via the Library of Congress, so I guess I can consider myself a well seasoned library worker. I am sure the librarians back home in Okolona will love me even more so, now that my skills have improved.
But back to my beloved stacks, my first experience with shelf reading was fine, however somewhat arduous. Why you may ask? Because the shelves E-G are the historical books. I found myself highly conflicted with a desire to read the very books I was supposed to be classifying! But I made it through, I am still alive, and even though I paused at various intriguing books I was eventually able to complete the task that was set before me.
For my mother's knowledge...I help close the Library Monday and Wednesday nights. Since it does not close until 11:00 I think it would be best for you to forgo any attempts of communication those particular nights.
Also a point of interest, I went to a "normal" church this morning. I really had to control myself to not sign. Though I did think of Bro. Milton this morning, when all those hearing people were sing How Great Thou Art all I could think of was Bro. Milton signing away...I greatly miss Louisville Baptist Deaf Church.

Prompt Prompting!

Uh to my momma...as of this moment I do not plan to go with Dr. Jones with the whole river cleaning. But he hasn't really sent his email out about that, so depending on when it is, and if it costs any money...who knows. But something cool I hope to go on, but I have to talk to Mrs. Dey about it, she asked if anybody in ASL 201 would like to volunteer at this camp, it's for Deaf-Blind people. somewhere near Lake Norman I think she said...but anyway, the room and board would be taken care of, the only issue would transportation. and plus it would count as Deaf culture hours! yippee! Sept 7-9th I think, 2 nights and 3 days. Kinda like KBCD I guess.
My sign language classes...ahh they are not to bad. Bob signs really fast, and it disapoints me, I have almost nodded off twice in his class thus far. I think it's always cause his class is my last one on MWF. Dr. High's class, wow I never had to think about interpreting so much. Frankly, I really don't care much for the class. It's not that it's boring, I just don't feel compelled to be an interpreter. So taking a class on the theory's of interpreting does not really excite me that much. It's okay though...I really like Art class. Right now we are just going over Reprenstational, and Non-reprenstational, abstract, just stuff so we can tell what the piece is...lines, color, styles. We haven't gotten to the history part yet. But I know it will be coming.
Well anyway, that's all I can think of for now. Talk to yall later!
Joni