Awards

So today was kind of a big deal...

Today at Fullerton College there was an awards sports banquet in the gym. So not knowing that I was receiving anything, I attended this banquet and soon noticed that my name was in the program. My mentors Juan and Lisa nominated me for the Bill Chambers Athletic Training award this year and I got it! It was a huge honor! This is something that I will never forget and something that really marks a turning point in my young life. I am only a freshmen, just ending my freshman year technically, and I am already winning awards. That is pretty exciting. I just cant stop smiling. There were a couple of sporadic tears in there, but what can you say, Im a women.

Anyways besides my math test that I took earlier in the day before all of this madness, that I think I failed, today was a pretty awesome day. Definitely one for the record books :)

Kayla

2nd to last post (I believe)

So tonight I am up late and will be up much later working on, yet again, this stupid speech homework. The class is almost over but it just keeps getting harder. Right now im doing like an 8 page outline on the right to retain collective bargaining. What do I know about collective bargaining?! I mean I know about it but not enough to give a 10min speech on. Its not even something fun to learn about. Its just annoying because all I am talking about is how our nation is in debt and more debt and how cutting collective bargaining rights will no fix it. DUMB! I have a B in speech right now, and with the amount of work I put in to this class I definitely deserve and A. also, DUMB!

I will be starting my last english essay this weekend. Im pretty excited because my topic has a lot of ares to explore and learn from. I dont have health class for a week and a half, thats exciting! I have learned to like my math teacher after almost 15 weeks :). Very nervous about my Philosophy research paper that I will get back tomorrow; fingers crossed.  and.... yep I think that about covers it.

Alright well until next week...


Kayla G.

Surgery Viewing!

So tomorrow I get to go observe and view a surgery. In the surgical room! Right next to the surgeon! Im so excited!
I work with the baseball team at Fullerton College and one of our catchers got hurt a couple of weeks ago. It turns out that he tore his meniscus and needs surgery to be repaired. So this is where I come in :) Tomorrow at 7am will get to observe my first surgery of many (hopefully).
Speaking of baseball, the season is almost over! One more away game tomorrow and they are done. This is kind of exciting but also kind of sad. Exciting because it means less work for me and more time to study. Sad because I will miss being around these baseball boys... their pretty funny in the dugout.

Alright well its 12am and I still have to take a shower and get ready for tomorrow... got to get up at 5 for my big surgery :) Can you tell im excited? Alright night!!

Kayla

Spring Break

So after tomorrow I officially start spring break! Thank God!! I have been so busy and stressed lately that I need a break... oh but wait, I don't really get a break since my speech teacher decided to give us enough homework to fill the entire break. Really dislike him! Oh well, ill make it work.

So im starting off my break with a weekend in vegas. Sounds fun, but dont get to excited. One im not even 21. Two, its for an Athletic Training convention; so its more work related. Still fun though to get away from things for awhile.

Other then that I just want to relax and maybe get some tanning in. I hope its warm!

Just as a side note... Im going to join the National Honors Society (PTK) kind of exciting. 

Thats about all I have to say today... Hope everyone has a great spring break!

RANDOM

So just about one more week till spring break, I cant wait!! That is all that is on my mind lately. It's been really hard to focus and stay on top of my school work :/ Oh well....

My last post I stated that I was going to do a liver detox... yeah, never did it lol. I want out and bought all the stuff and was super motivated but then it cam time to do it and I just had no more motivation. Its ok though, I still ate all the healthy food I bought just not as specifically as I was supposed to.

I enter a video contest to promote the profession of Athletic Training about 2 weeks ago, and I found out this week that I won!! Its pretty exciting. I am going to get recognized at this huge Athletic Training convention seminar thing in Las Vegas over spring break. Lots of "big" people in the profession will be there so hopefully it will be beneficial :) Fullerton college also put me in the President's Weekly! Crazy stuff. You can search Kayla Gonzalez on youtube if you want. It should pop right up. Hope you enjoy :)

Alright im going to bed! Sleep has really been getting the best of me lately :/ not a good thing.

BYE!!

3 days

So I am about to embark on a 3 day liver cleanse detox. Shoot me now! I have done this detox before in the past and it is not fun, but the results are amazing! The first time it came out in print it was said that you could loose up to 10 pounds in the 3 days. Well its true! Depending on your body type and how strict you are about it you can deff loose a good amount of weight in just 3 days. Now this detox is not supposed to be done and then after the 3 days you can just start eating junk again. That would be a lot of stress on the bodies organs. This detox is to help cleanse the body and give it a boost for a new style of eating habits. In other words if you are going to start eating healthy start off by doing this cleanse for 3 days.

So anyways Im going to start on sunday. The first day is all liquids and then the second and third day is a strict diet of specific foods. Dont worry folks it is nothing harmful or dangerous. I wont be starving myself or keeping my body from the nutrients it needs lol. Just a good way to have a healthier body :)

Let the journey begin!

Birthdays!

What is a birthday?

Yes it is the day that you came into the world, and yes it is the day that your parents saw you for the first time, but is there something more to it?

I think that a birthday is a more personalized new years day. On new years day we celebrate the start of a new year and we look back on our mistakes and accomplishments and we try to make our life better for the upcoming year. Well technically new years does not represent a new year of life unless your birthday is on January 1st. ( Do you get what Im trying to say) Say you were born on December 16th, well when new years rolls around on January 1st and you are supposed to celebrate a new year, you are technically not celebrating a new year because you have only been alive for less then a month. On your birthday you are celebrating the birth of another year. This is the true date in which you should reflect on what you have accomplished in the past year of your life. This is the date where you can distinguish your old self from you new.

This is why birthdays are so special. New years is the celebration of a new year for everyone in the world, but a birthday is the celebration of new year for just you! There is a date and time for everyone that can specifically represent that persons first day of their own year. Every celebration of this date symbolizes a new you and a chance to be a better person then you were the year before.

P.S. My birthday is Wednesday 3/16 :)

Im Late

So I was rushing to do my math homework that was due by 11:59 tonight and I totally forgot I had to write this blog... oops! Hopefully being 3 minutes late wont hurt me to bad.

Im super stoked right now because I just found out I scored an 18 out of 20 on my math quiz! (this is such a big deal because I have been getting like a 12 out of 20 every time)

Today I was sooo thankful for the weather! It was beautiful outside today! Not to cold not to hot, perfect! I can not wait till summer! Can you believe we only have like 10 weeks of school left? Its crazy.

So I have been telling myself that I need to start working out again so I have decided that on friday when I dont have school or anything else to do in the morning, I am going to go running and run from my house to fullerton college! Its about a 4 mile run...I dont even like to run! I dont know what has gotten into me but for some reason it seems like it is going to be really fun :) If I show up to my classes on Monday you will know that I am still alive lol.

Alright well have a great rest of the week everyone!

KAYLA

Almost Friday :)

So I was reading through some of my blogs and I realized that I talk about my speech class a lot! Its probably annoying but I always write my blog the night before I have speech so that is always the topic on my mind. Speaking of speech, tomorrow I give my big speech on Obamacare. Shoot me now! I just hope I get a good grade!

Its almost Friday people, and you know what that means? Relaxation day for me! I havent been able to relax in a couple of weekends and it is much needed. I cant wait. Im going to sleep in and stay in my pajamas all day! I am going to be productive by washing clothes and cleaning my room, but thats about as much as I will be doing all day friday :)

One more thing. Today we turned in our final draft of our english essay. I feel pretty confident about it because I worked really hard on it so I am very eager to find out what kind of grade I am going to receive. Oh! speaking of grades, I have a D in math right now! Thats horrible! Really got to get my act together with that class, I just really have grown to HATE math over the past few weeks :(

Wish me luck on my speech tomorrow! 6 minuets of my life that I can not wait to be over!
-Kayla

Nothing to say...

So its wednesday night and I am currently working on some homework for my speech class. I dont really have anything interesting to say tonight so Im just going to write about my annoying researching im doing right now. For my speech I have to state my opinion on why Obamacare should be repealed... LAME!! First off I dont even know anything about the subject. Second I dont really want to know anything about the subject. And lastly this outline for my speech is due tomorrow morning and I am just now working on it. :/ So as you can tell I am really annoyed at this!

Tomorrow should be a good day (after speech class), Fullerton baseball will be in long beach playing LBC, should be a good game! Then I will return to FJC for my unnecessary media aesthetics class, booo! Then I think I will treat myself to some chickfila.... Oh wait, scratch that, Im broke! Well ill just head home and enjoy my thursday night TV with my friends and family :) Greys, Private Practice, and Off the Map!

Alright, thats all for now! See you next wednesday.

Post Valentines Day

Hello all!

So Valentines day was this past monday, and I hope everyone had a great one. Even if you are a single bitter women that hates the day all together, hopefully you got some chocolate out of it :) Anyways tonight in my blog I want to analyze the facebook status that I posted on Valentines day. This was a quote that I googled ad found it appropriate for the day so decided to post it:

"Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."

First off, this sentence states that love is a condition. I have always felt like love is a feeling or a state of being I guess you could say. A condition, to me, is more like when a doctor tells you that you have a condition known as arthritis or when they tell you that you are not in the condition to exercise. More of a physical meaning I guess. Secondly about this sentence is that it states that love is when the happiness of someone else is more important to you then your own. Is this what truly makes us happy? Seeing that our loved ones are happy. I would say this could be true. When you have seen a loved one that is sad or depressed you often have no control over feeling sad with them. When a loved one is happy, even if you are sad about something, you often cant help yourself from feeling happy for them and that in return makes you happy. Maybe the happiness in others is what truly triggers the happiness in ourself. If you think about it, is there really a time when you were feeling down and a loved one came to you with very exciting news about themselves and you were not able to become happy for them and with them? I highly doubt it. So to conclude this analysis, I believe that this statement speaks the truth 100%. When the happiness of another person is the true factor for the happiness of yourself then you have truly discovered love in its most rewarding way.

Speech class

        So I am taking a speech class this semester and it is going pretty good. I had to give my first informal speech on tuesday and I thought I did a good job. The class was laughing at my story, I was telling jokes, acting out characters voices, and I was trying to be as natural as possible; as if I were telling the story to my sister. Well, my teacher told me this after I was done, "You are very guarded and need to let us feel your emotions more. You are talking to us like we are on a first date when really you should be talking to us at a third date level." I was like WHAT! I was totally being open to how I felt about my story. How open am I supposed to be? Im not going to stand there and cry in front of 30 people that I just met and don't even know their names.
      So after the class I started analyzing my life. Trying to figure out if I really was a guarded person and if it was somehow being portrayed through my speech. Well I decided im not. I open up to people that I feel I have a close connection to. Yes it is true that I only open up to certain people and those certain are not a lot, but are you really supposed to open yourself up to everyone you meet? If you walk around being an open book then there is nothing interesting about you that people dont already know. Why would someone want to get to know you if you are already letting them see everything before they even get the chance to know you. Basically the question is this; Are you supposed to let your guard down for anyone you meet, or are you supposed to only let people that mean a lot to you or people that you feel connected to have the chance to get to know you on a more personal level with no guard up?

Just a thought,
KAYLA

my thoughts on blogging

As I sit here ready to write another blog entry and am trying to come up with something to write about I ask myself this, "what do people usually write in blogs and why wouldn't the just talk to people instead of writing it down for the whole world to see?" So now Im trying to figure out why it is that people feel so comfortable sharing their deepest emotions with strangers through the computer but cant express those emotions in person, to their closest friends... I don't know its just a thought. I also am realizing that this whole blog thing is like a whole other world! I mean if you just search through some of these blogs there are SO many different kinds of them. Kinda cool!

Anyways back to why it is that people feel better sharing their feelings online instead face to face. Maybe it is because they don't have any personal connection to anyone reading it. Maybe it is because they just honestly don't have anyone to talk to. Or maybe they feel more comfortable because they are better at writing down their emotions instead of expressing them through words. I guess its understandable, but is this really a good thing for our society? Im not sure. I definitely dont think it is a bad thing by any means, but I cant really determine if it is beneficial or not. I guess only time will tell.

Alright well Iv got to get to bed, another long day tomorrow. But I start traveling with the Fullerton Baseball team on thursday as their Athletic Trainer so that is something to look forward to :)

P.S. Im so over this freezing cold weather!!!

Until next time,
Kayla

My first post

Hello to all!

So today is my first blog, as you can tell by the title, and to my surprise I am quite excited about it! I just got back from a super long day at school and now I am taking a second to write this blog while I get ready to leave again for work. Today was a good day :) I was assigned my first speech homework today. I will have to give a speech about the strangest day I have ever experienced; should be interesting. I would be a bit nervous but the story I am going to tell is pretty funny so I think I might get some laughs and that always makes you feel better, right? Thats pretty much the only thing that happened today worth talking about. Except for the fact that when I was leaving school and walking to my car in the parking structure I was swallowed by a stampede of police officers in training. They were all running to the top of the structure like if their life depended on it. Kinda funny lol. Alright well that all for now :) Be back soon!