Good Reminder

Challenges are good, right? This week definitely has been challenging, starting last Friday- the battle of patience, understanding, and forgiveness. Yesterday, unfortunately topped it all. When I was listening to music when I was studying for my Chaucer exam last night, I was listening to Josh Groban and came across this song and it helped me, remembering that people are rooting for me and the grace of God is always on my side.

About a week ago Megan and I had a meeting with a professor (Bettis) about another T&L professor with major concerns. We made it perfectly clear that we did not want our names to be pushed around, just in case if it got back to the professor. Apparently after Bettis talked to the head of both departments, the professor got called into a meeting to explain what was going on in class. Yesterday she directly addressed what happened during class- being called out. The professor additionally explained that if we have a problem with her to directly go to her and do not go to the head of the department. Well yesterday we also recieved our first assignment back from her, a cultural presentation. It was a group project and Megan and I were together with John, well everybody else in the class recieved anywhere between a 98-89 percent except my group. We got a 65 percent and at first she didn't want to give it back or couldn't find it. She couldn't explain exactly why we got such a low grade. Megan overreacted a bit, started yelling. I thought we could take it up in a calm and rationale manner, apparently not. To make a longer story short, Bettis is helping us and making sure that we recieve the proper grade we should be. Every single student in our classes is backing us up, giving us their grades to show the difference and discrimination.
It was just a long day of Megan overreacting and calling me constantly about this- definitely drained me emotionally and mentally. I was focused this week in getting homework and assignments completed, but that just emptied me out. Last night I didn't get home until about 9:30 pm and I left at 7 am.
The good news, however, I think I did well on my Chaucer exam today, it felt as if I really knew the material! And I don't have to work over 22 hours this weekend, always a plus :)

I will keep you all updated...