Greetings!
 

Hello Theta sisters! Just wanted to take a minute to give an update. I'm 9.5 days away from the end of my first year of teaching Special Education at the elementary school level. I've been working on a Masters in special ed and part of the program I'm doing (Resident Teaching) is to teach in the school setting, basically as a paid internship-type position. At the end of finals week and have one last assignment to submit via email.
Teaching is great- love it despite the tough times, behaviors, and paperwork. Tons of stress!!! Next year I'll be switching gears and moving to the preschool level with a Preschool Special Needs Program in the mornings. I'll be working with Infant Development as well in afternoons next spring. Very excited!
Summer class beginning after Memorial Day.
That's my life in a nutshell! :)

Congratulations on the ABC role. It carries a lot of responsibility, but you get a great chance to give back so much to the college chapter women.

In regards to traditions, I would start with ritual. Also talk with the chapter members about what they would like to leave as their 'mark' on the chapter. Do they want it to be an annual lunch with local alumnae? Maybe you start or re-start doing a Senior Service?

I wish you the best of luck and send Theta Thoughts your way!

I just finished step 1 of the medical licensing exam. (please excuse spelling, it has been a long day) And i must say, it was ROUGH! i hope summer is going well for all of you. I'm beginning the full week of vacation I get before i start rotations...happy summer!

- I just got engaged to a guy I have been dating for 2 years

CONGRATS thetaprincess! What wonderful news to hear!

Smile awhile as only Thetas do
while twin stars are shining over you.
Theta hearts you know are true,
glow with love for only you.

Theta lips are smiling through the years,
poised to laugh and kiss away the tears.
Give your heart to one that's true,
to your Theta girl.

(A song our chapter sings at candle passings- to celebrate engagements...:D)

Whew! Here's the news: I'm finally done in Ireland. For the past 6 weeks I've been out in the field hiking through peat bogs and climbing mountains 7 hours a day studying geology in Western Ireland. Now I'm done, and I feel great about it. I'm in England now, and in about a week I'll be in Iceland. After that I come back to the states, and continue doing field work for my Senior Thesis project. I hope all my Theta sisters are staying busy (but happy!) too.

I haven't posted in this thread since before I moved from Michigan to Omaha and that was at the end of January! Things in Nebraska are going well, loving the new job I'm in, definitely glad that my company gave me the opportunity. I like not being couped up in a an office building all day and I think this is a great job to be doing at this point in my life.
It's nice to only be a few hours away from a bunch of my friends and family instead of eight hours.
Things were so crazed the first few months that I didn't get involved in the local alumnae chapter and I've recently contacted the president. I'm looking forward to attending those meetings this fall.
I'm not having that exciting of a summer however - I decided to turn the one day that I was supposed to have off for the 4th into a five day weekend for some much needed R&R. Tomorrow I think I'm going to take my four year old nephew to the zoo or the science center. I've gone on a few weekend trips, but mainly to either Des Moines to visit friends or KC to visit friends.

Hope everyone else is having a great summer! :)

Congrats Thetaprincess!

As I last reported, I finished the first step of licensure to practice medicine. Today I got my scores, and I PASSED!!! Woo hoo!

On the other hand, my vacation didn't go so well, since my kitty of 17 years was dying, and finally passed away on June 30th. I miss her, but I'm glad she isn't suffering.

I don't want to leave this update on a sad note, so I will say that I'll be meeting up with the alumnae group on Tuesday for dinner. I haven't seen them in a while, and it will be a nice way to cap off the day.

Time to celebrate! Have a great weekend, sisters!:)

Congrats blackngoldengrl on passing scores! What a relief to get news like that. My sister (biological & also a Theta) just took the Bar exam last week after graduating from Law School this spring. Fingers crossed that she passes- scores back in about 6 weeks?

I am excited as tomorrow I'll be meeting a friend from my chapter for supper. She's a couple years older than I am, so I haven't seen her in at least two years, probably 3. Since then, she is married, living in a different city (only about an hour from where I live & we went to school) & I just found out is expecting a baby this spring.

My summer classes are finished & only about 3 weeks until my (taking) classes start, and less than 4 weeks until (teaching) school starts. Where did the summer go?!

Just wanted to check in with everyone!
I started grad school in the beginning of September. So far, so good...although it is a ton of work. I'm slowly finding my balance though and getting into new routines.
I'm also keeping busy with work and Junior League, and I'm in a friend's wedding in a couple of weeks so I've been trying to help her get things ready as much as I can. Busy busy busy!
How is everyone else???

Hello Thetas! I'm long overdue for doing one of these so here goes:


I'm currently working 5 days a week at a family practice. All of the health providers are nurse practitioners and most of our patients are on medicaid (state funded and is not to be confused with medicare). Since i cant say anything nice about my patients with the exception of the children, medicare, and private insurance patients( though some of these tick me off too), I'll stop here.

Recently I became a The Body Shop At Home consultant. I'm so excited about my new business. I figured since I've been using the products since 1993 I ought to be able to sell them well :) I really like the company philosophies as well and what they support which helps my enthusiasm to sell:) I dont even have my starter kit yet and I've already made a sale, and potentially already recruited someone to be a consultant. I'm planning an open house/business launch party in two weeks and planning a GIrls Night Out party for my daughter as a mother/daughter type of thing. my website should launch soon as well.

My oldest step son is still running cross country and is excelling in his honors classes. He's still hell bent on going to medical school though he's unsure of what kind of doctor he wants to be which is fine. He's only a high school sophomore and has plenty of time to decide.He also just turned 16 and cant wait to get his license and a car of some sort in February (Kentucky has a 6 month driver's permit period before being able to get your license). My step daughter was chosen to be in the gifted program at her school (she started middle school this year) and she too is also doing well. She's taking a break from sports this fall but is still keeping up with the violin, her school's math team, and will be joining me in my Yoga class next week. My youngest step son has found his sport in football. This is the first year he's played football but is already quite good and plays running back. He is also playing violin.

My husband just got a promotion at work and then his division was bought out by AT&T. His job is safe and he still loves his job however this could mean a possible move to the Atlanta area after the first of the year. I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand Atlanta has more opportunities for me as far as nursing jobs, socially (Theta, BSP, Junior league, alumnae panhellenic, etc), and excellent shopping, but on the other hand the traffic........I HATE ATLANTA AREA TRAFFIC!!!!!! traffic makes me tense and nervous. I can barely handle the traffic here which is zilch compared to atlanta, but anyways we'll see what happens there.

Other than that I'm trying to get more involved in my xmas shopping,taking pilates and yoga three times a week, and am currently reading three books (one about buddism, history/science behind the bible, and leonardo da vinci).

HOpe all is going well with everyone! :)

I met our Grand Council President last night for the first time at our chapter's 25th anniversary celebration. She is pretty funny in addition to being very friendly. The celebration was great and I'm hoping to see another 25!

Hello Ladies,

I haven't posted in quite some time, but I am now! This was my last semester and I was busy finishing my BAE in Secondary Education! I am now graduated, and both excited and nervous about being an Alumna!!! Just an update on me!!!!

As for black and golden girl's post, the Grand Council President is very nice! I have met her on two occasions as I was a founder of my chapter, and she was always very sweet!

Hello Theta Sisters!

I just wanted to bump this thread in hopes of hearing updates on how everyone is doing.

I don't have much news to report. Grad school is keeping me super busy. I'm finding time to volunteer and be active in Junior League when I can. And, I'm just desperate to get out of this Wisconsin weather. It has been the worst winter I can ever remember and I'm so ready for it to be spring!

How is everyone else doing?

Well, I don't have a lot to report, but I'm in my last semester as an undergrad, so that's really exciting. I'm in the writing stages of my Thesis paper, and it's been a long time coming (almost a whole year now), and this is really exciting because in March (during my spring break) I get to go to the Cordilleran/Rocky Mountain GSA (Geologic Society of America) conference in Las Vegas to give a poster presentation about it. Just the fact that I'm an expert on a catastrophic mudflow that took place in the Puget Lowland about 16,950 years ago, makes me giddy beyond all reason.

In other news, going along the lines of what ThetaDancer said, today is the first monday here in the Seattle area that's sunny and warm enough (read... JUST warm enough) to wear a skirt for chapter!