15/5 - September 3, 2008

I attended my first 6210 class last Thursday and met my group for the first time face-to-face. The first part of class was spent answering questions from and giving tips to the 6190 and 6200 students. I think the other 6210 members and I did a pretty good job of giving them the best tips we could. I remember exactly how overwhelmed I felt on that first day in 6190, which happened to be my first ever grad school class. I'm pretty sure I cried on the way home. Now I'm actually feeling okay about what lies ahead. Yes, it's still overwhelming but I know that it will all get done at the end. What's that old saying about eating an elephant one bite at a time?

Anyhow my group met for a few minutes after class was over and discussed all that we have to get done in the next few weeks. We looked over a website that our client gave us in order to get a better feel for what this Russian summer camp thing was all about. We decided that we needed a little more content from our client, and that we would be giving some of her students a survey/questionnaire in order to complete our analysis. I believe I'm going to be the one to create the actual survey once we get all of the information. I really love organizing information and being able to present it in a pleasant way. As a teacher, I've created many activities using Microsoft Word for my students! On this survey/questionnaire we will be trying to figure out what these students, who are prospective summer camp counselors, already know about Russian culture, history, and camps.

Coming up this next week I'll be meeting with my group again on Thursday in class and on Sunday online and we will be going through the content that our client is sending us and deciding exactly what will be going on the survey. Our original timeline has shifted slightly because we weren't able to get some of the content from the client right away. I think the next few weeks are going to be pretty busy for us. Did I say weeks? I think I meant months!

And, finally, since I talked about my upcoming camping trip in my last 15/5 I couldn't resist sharing some pictures. It was the perfect camping weekend! I promise not to do these off topic rants too much.