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Classes are on their last week. Over the past year, I have learned a few things that I wish to incorporate into next year's classes, such as minimizing the number of "projects" and have more in-class assignments which will develop skills leading to those primary projects. While I have gone into these multimedia courses with the belief that the majority of students at college age have familiarity with basic internet and multimedia skills, I believe this to be a false pretense that has caused friction with coursework at NECC. However, I am also shocked to learn at how many colleges still do not incorporate internet learning and researching into their coursework; this is a key ingredient to how the world functions today and so it shouldn't be looked on as a pariah to be avoided in academia.

Since coursework is winding down for the summer, I have been looking to the summer for grants and projects I need to work on and have already become invested in explaining Bulbo's artist residency to some colleagues who are looking to accomplish a similar project with the latino on campus population.

For mother's day, I had the luck at church to leave Aderyn with Rebecca and go sit in nursery with Paela for an hour. She spent most of the hour pretending to be invisible to her classmates and teachers by sitting very still and staring at the wall. I'm not sure what this means, but it definitely shows a lack of 'friendliness' to others around her.

Rebecca, I think, had a good mother's day. Paela showed her on multiple occasions how happy she was to have a mother like her, but Aderyn has persisted on waking up once every hour and a half for the past several weeks. We have a conundrum: we wish to teach Aderyn -- who is six months old -- how to fall back to sleep on her own, but she sleeps in the same room as Paela and her screaming wakes Paela up. So, we haven't found a solution. Instead, we get very little sleep.

Rebecca took the girls to the zoo, but Paela mostly just worked with sticks and rocks. Everywhere she goes, she finds sticks and rocks. She looks for multiple sizes and compares them. She explains where she got them. If anyone breaks them, she gets unhappy. It is a wondrous age.