Week 17
October 29, 2007 Leave a Comment
It appears we have about a quarter inch growth on the belly this week. As you can see in the picture, the child is pushing forward.
First Belly Picture
October 22, 2007 6 Comments
Terra is in week 16. She is beginning to show she is pregnant. She has only added 4 pounds in the past 16 weeks as she is eating very healthy food. The child likes to move around at night and her belly looks funny when the kid is on one side or the other. This will be a series of pictures in front of our high tech green screen to allow you to keep up with the developments.
Week 1 – Update
October 5, 2007 2 Comments
I have finish my first week of classes. In general, they are interesting but frankly, fairly basic. I never considered myself well read but what I am realising is that through all of my automatic feeds on various business topics and such, I consume news at a much higher rate than many other people. Also, I have a knack for remembering numbers so that comes in handy and I can pull stats out of articles pretty quickly.
The classes are all lumped together. In other words, in one class we are covering marketing and operations and in another we are covering finance, information technology and human resources. The idea is that no one discipline is managed in a vacuum so each class is team taught by three or more professors. Some days they will all be in class, others one or two will focus on a particular topic.
The good and the bad is that all of the group work and various tasks and group work must be done but none of it counts toward your final grade in the class. The only graded material is one written assignment or test (depending on the class). You have one and only one opportunity which is a bit stressful but I am sure with proper preparation all will be fine.
The weekend will be spent trying to get ahead in all the reading. Thank goodness I had 70 odd books in Armenia to get my reading skills in shape!
Our New Flat
October 1, 2007 Leave a Comment
We have a flat! It was a long process of trying to find a place to call home but we succeed in finding a place just a few minutes walk to Terra’s Post Graduate building. I have a bit of a long trip to campus as I have to walk 20 minutes over the hill and then catch a bus but that is OK as it will help me reach my health goals.
If you have Google Earth (download here), you can view our neighbourhood by importing this file.
It is a small place and thankfully our skills from Armenia will help us out especially in the areas of bathing in the cold and line drying our clothes. All I can figure is that heat must have been a modern invention because there certainly is not much of it in our flat but then again, there is no ice outside either!