Mario and I are doing great! We're getting along well with school. Both of us are nearly done and working on research. Technically, I walked for graduation in May, but I have 6 credits for my minor and 6 research credits to finish this summer.
3 of the research credits are for my Honor's Thesis. I'm finally making good progress on the ORIGINAL RESEARCH portion of my thesis. I finished my preliminary research and most of my literature review, but I'm finally starting the interviews and analysis/synthesis of the information. My first interview was today, and my second is Friday. The interviews themselves are pretty simple and fun, but the transcription, coding and analysis of each interview will be time consuming.
The other 3 credits are for a class Mark wanted me to take--it's an environmental humanities directed study course to supplement the major, targeted to my interests. I'm researching environmental folklore of Cache Valley/Utah. Right now I'm just gathering and summarizing the stories that might be useful at a nature center. Mark hopes that by the end of the summer I will have also analyzed and synthesized the folklore. The current goal is to determine if/how the folklore from back east affected the development of Utah/Cache Valley when pioneers moved here. (Basically, how did their past environment affect the new/current plant/landscaping selections?)
Mario is registered for Fall classes, and he's also planning on being a lab instructor for several physics labs and researching/publishing to get into a grad program. Eventually he'll let me know where he's applied/we're moving, but right now all I know is he's planning on grad school. He also hopes to be a tutor for math and science, but he hasn't heard back on the position, and its been several weeks.
My most exciting news is our baby on the way. We're having a little girl, due October 6, 2013.
That's not the most exciting news in my family, though. Nathanael has been called to serve a mission in the Idaho Nampa Mission. He's going through the temple this weekend, his farewell is June 30th and he heads to the MTC on July 10. While the initial response was the stereotypical "Idaho?!" We're all really excited for him! :D
Well, as you can see, even if we don't take time to stop and recognize time passing/life events, life keeps moving forward.
Thanks for the post little sis! It's always fun to get a peek into your life! I guess I'd better go update my blog too eh?
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