Ok, so I thought I would update you on a few things that have been going on in my life and that go in line with some of the previous tip blogs I have written. I was going to write this one yesterday, but I got extremely sick with some 24 hour thing that made me appreciate being able to be more than 20 feet away from a toilet if you know what I mean.
Ok, well in my schooling there are a few updates. I am officially a member of the education honor society kappa delta pi now. I had a call with my placement specialist for student teaching. This call marked the introduction to the january 2012 cohort. These two things have been two key moments in my education and they both happened this week.
As far as the making extra money goes, I have tried a few of the tips that I gave and will continue to try more. I have been tutoring one student for the past few weeks. This has been very enjoyable, but proves to be a difficult experience to build up more clientele. This would be a great addition to my income if I could get just 3 to 4 more clients a week. Me and my wife went to give plasma on Tuesday of this week and I will tell you she definitely had a better experience than me. We waited for four hours since the first two hours is a medical screening. 2 hours is the total time it takes once you have done the medical screening and each time you come in after that. So, I was grooving along through my donation and then the machine starts to beep, signaling that I am finished. The attendant comes over and pulls out the needle and wraps my arm telling me I am finished. She then points me over to the sink where I can wash my arm off, So, I stand up and go over to the sink thinking this wasn't so bad. Then as I am looking down at my arm I can fell my eyes start to become blurry and I know I need to sit down. I rush over to the recovery room, which is more like a waiting area with juice and crackers. There was no attendant there, so I do not know what I would have done if the lady that didn't work there had not gotten me a juice or told them I needed help. By the time I got to the room I could barely make out the outlines of the chairs and by the time I had the juice in my hand I could feel I was about three seconds away from blacking out. As soon as I drank the juice it felt like life was rushing back through my veins. It was kind of exhilarating to think how the body works and how just a little thing of juice could bring me back that fast. My wife did not have this issue. I am going to keep going until the promotion is finished and I will stop. The payout is 25, 30, 35, 40, and then goes down to 15 and then 20 for the second of the week. I will probably stop after the fourth time. I was going to go back yesterday, but with me being sick I thought it might not be the best choice. We have begun to save our pop cans so we can take them to the recycling center when we get a few bags saved up to update on how much we get for them.
