Week 7 started calmly enough. Sunday night I moved into this cute little house with Emily where we will be residing for a month. She had already printed out the week's assignments for me! Isn't she a doll?! I guess that was her cue to me that we'd better get to work right away! Well, we did. The first couple of days this week included much fun, but we also completed a lot of our work including our Email Community and Peer Review assignments. Then all that was left was the big stuff, and our journal.

Once I started thinking about my last two genres, the panic set in. All this time everyone else has been talking about how they're going to tie everything together, and seeing it as a whole. Me, I just work from piece to piece and have failed to see the big picture clearly. Sure, I've thought about the project as a whole and how I should tie everything together, but thinking about it is as far as I've gotten. So, once I realized that my work so far is a jumbled mess in the whole scheme of things, I started to freak out! I realized that none of my genres actually answered my question, and maybe didn't even relate to each other! Should I change my question? Was it too late? Was I going to have to redo my genres? It seemed that Emily had figured out how she was going to put everything together, but my stuff was falling apart! So I emailed Mrs. McComas for advice (THANK YOU!!) and after her reply I feel a little better. I just need to sit down and think things through, and of course everything would need revised anyway. She suggested doing a web or map. What a concept!! Why didn't I think of that! Anyway, with any luck I'll have things ironed out soon. Of course at this point my project has more wrinkles than a Sharpei puppy! (Sharpei's are the dogs that look like they have too much skin, and it's all wrinkly!) Stay tuned for the continuing drama that is my education!

Ok, so things weren't all stress this week. Emily and I are having a blast living together! At the beginning of the week we went grocery shopping and spent $80, since then we've only made dinner twice! It's bad when you buy that many groceries, but don't know what you're going to eat the next day! We don't have cable, so we've been watching a lot of DVD's, and of course there's been an abundance of singing and dancing! Emily's big stereo can shake the house!! We also get our work done because we help each other out and keep each other on task. All in all, our first week has been great! Next week will hopefully be even better!! Until then...I'm out.