Hi Shells,

I passed my class! It is really not surprising that I passed...I'm just disappointed at how hard it is for the professor's to give corrective feedback.

I'm not perfect. I know it. I like being told that I'm professional, intelligent and that I will do well. However, how am I gonna learn if that is all you toss at me?

If we are in an assessment class, wouldn't you think they would give me an assessment? It wasn't designed that way. It was set up to delete the students that shouldn't be in the program. If after 8 months of classes...You would think the student would know! Anyway, they did weed out some students.

I know I will be there and my core group of friends. I just think it was a waste of my time for three weeks and $150 bucks! I could have used that money on shopping! I tell ya, by Thanksgiving weekend I am ready for Christmas!

Don't get me wrong, I love Thanksgiving! It is after-all my holiday. I was born on Thanksgiving Day in 1964. My mom went into labor and my older sisters took over the meal. I was born 9 minutes before my twin brother Matthew.

My family is not one to celebrate birthdays, when you have ten kids, your lucky to even get a card. So having my birthday at Thanksgiving time, meant that Matt & I were always celebrated. We would pretend that the big meal and the family gathering was about us. It's not like we got a birthday cake, but we did get pie!

We both would laugh about it, we knew it wasn't about us, but still we liked to pretend it was and for that it was always our private joke. Even the Thanksgiving parade was for us. What better way to say Happy Birthday then a parade? I mean Macy's knows how to throw a party!!

So I love Thanksgiving and it opens the Christmas shopping season and to me...It just don't get better than that!

Love,
Michelle