Saturday, May 14, 2011

One more semester down, Summer has begun.

- - Wow, is Summer really here already? Well it is for Summer school. We started Wednesday, and it is 8 full hours a day. However, it actually feels more like the real world in that we have to be there by 7:30 am, and get an hour lunch break with two fifteen minute breaks one before lunch and one after. Then we get out at 4:30, and get to go home. The homework also is minimal so when we get out, we are basically done and can have the afternoon off.--

- - The Summer school will last 4.5 weeks, then I will be teaching the flight camps again for two weeks. The flight camps go from 8am to noon, so I will have the afternoons off. I plan on beginning my multi engine flight instructor course to get a head start on it. The week after the two weeks of flight camps I am hoping to work solely on the flight instructor course.--

- - June 30th I will be going to Alaska (I have wanted to go there for a long time) for about three weeks, then back to Cali for a few weeks before I start my last semester at LeTourneau University.--

- - This last semester was crazy and busy, but it was a very good one. I earned both my Commercial Multi engine pilots license, and my Single engine Commercial Pilots licenses, I got all A's in my classes except one, in which I got a B (18 credit hours), I learned a lot, and feel like it was a good-productive semester. Sure there were plenty of rough spots, but the Lord helped me through it all. (He always does, mostly I think He gives us the strength to make it through, and helps us learn that we can do things with His abounding grace, strength and mercy. )--

- I think one lesson that I learned, well sort-of learned the semester before last was the importance of adequate sleep. I was very disciplined this last semester to go to bed (usually around 10:30-11:30) earlier, when I had to be up by 5:30am which gave me around 6 hours of sleep. I still think that 6 hrs is marginal, but much better than what I have gotten in semesters past. And what do you know, I found myself being able to pay much better attention in class, and found my retention rate much better as well. I did find it hard to get all my homework done with reduced study time since I was going to bed earlier, but the dividends paid off, and the outcome was better, and I felt much better.-

- -With the way the year 2011 has been shaping up so far, I think this will be a great year, and a year to look back on and say: "That was a great year" "Thank you Lord"--