Here's my update for the week...
Work is going great. I'm really enjoying supervising because I get to work with the people. I enjoy getting to know them as I work with them more. As a supervisor, you get to hear all these life stories or circumstances. Since I've come back to tour 3 (3 to 11:30), I've been the main supervisor for the flats operation. My boss changed my days off this week to Sat/Sun so I'd be supervisor for the main days of the week (Mon-Fri). I don't know if this will remain that way or not.
School has had its ups and downs. The downs being the exams. I think the material is fascinating, but I can't seem to find the time to study. I pretty well have to prepare myself for my Friday exam on the weekends before which means we haven't even touched the material yet. On this last Friday's exam, I think I messed up one of the problems on limiting reactants because I used the required moles instead of the available moles in my equation. That will affect at least 3 other answers dependent on that equation. The problem was worth 20 points which really hurts. I think I did well on the rest of the test though.
The labs are the fun part. We did this really fascinating lab where we worked with copper. We started out with copper wool and added a solution of nitric acid which disolved the copper into a blue liquid. We then added sodium hydroxide which is a base. We then diluted it with some more distilled water and heated it to boiling on a bunsen burner. This turned our solution black. Then we filtered it with a Buchner funnel which involves a vacuum. The result was the separation of the copper oxide (a salt) from the liquid. We then poured sulfuric acid over this which dissolved it back into a blue liquid form. Then we put little chunks of zinc into the solution which produced a hydrogen gas and turned the copper into a solid and the blue disappeared from the liquid. The copper was now the normal copper color. It was absolutely amazing to see how we could change it back and forth from a solid state to a liquid state. Our professor was quite emphatic on his emphasis on safety for that lab because he said there were about 15 different ways we could kill ourselves that day. The acids were very corrosive and some of the solutions were highly flammable. We always have to wear goggles in the lab even if we're not working with acids and gases.
I had a really interesting church experience this morning. I went to another new church with one of my co-workers. This was a non-denominational church that was 95% black 5% white. Nobody worships God quite like the black people do. You just have to be happy when you're surrounded by them. They PRAISE the Lord. This was a fairly large church, and they knew I was coming. From the time I stepped in that door until I sat down, I think I got about 50 hugs from total strangers. My co-worker was in the praise team so she had told everybody she could see to watch for me and make sure I sat where she would sit after she was done singing. After the service she dragged me all over meeting this person and that because she was so proud that I had come. I sure hope I'm not called upon to remember all those names. I gathered from the conversations after the service that her husband is a police officer. Several people were complaining that when he sees them on the streets he honks at them and points accusingly at them making them appear guilty in front of the other motorists.
The sermon was really something. He preached on the headship order. The way he preached, you'd have thought he was a Mennonite! :-) He said that when you see women pastors, there is something wrong in that church. God only raises up women to leadership roles when the men aren't doing what they are called to do as in the case of Deborah in Judges. He also said that a lot of women today have to wear both the pants and the skirt, and it's wrong. He said that women WANT to be protected and cared for and will always have their fantasies of the "knight in shining armour" which is why they love romance novels. They read these and then they look at their husbands and just shake their heads. You should have heard the "amens" from the female portion of the audience. He even talked about women being silent and when they have a disagreement with what the pastor preached, they are supposed to go to their husbands. The husband will then discuss it with the pastor if there is a need to.
That's my update for the week, now I'm off to study some Chemistry.
Work is going great. I'm really enjoying supervising because I get to work with the people. I enjoy getting to know them as I work with them more. As a supervisor, you get to hear all these life stories or circumstances. Since I've come back to tour 3 (3 to 11:30), I've been the main supervisor for the flats operation. My boss changed my days off this week to Sat/Sun so I'd be supervisor for the main days of the week (Mon-Fri). I don't know if this will remain that way or not.
School has had its ups and downs. The downs being the exams. I think the material is fascinating, but I can't seem to find the time to study. I pretty well have to prepare myself for my Friday exam on the weekends before which means we haven't even touched the material yet. On this last Friday's exam, I think I messed up one of the problems on limiting reactants because I used the required moles instead of the available moles in my equation. That will affect at least 3 other answers dependent on that equation. The problem was worth 20 points which really hurts. I think I did well on the rest of the test though.
The labs are the fun part. We did this really fascinating lab where we worked with copper. We started out with copper wool and added a solution of nitric acid which disolved the copper into a blue liquid. We then added sodium hydroxide which is a base. We then diluted it with some more distilled water and heated it to boiling on a bunsen burner. This turned our solution black. Then we filtered it with a Buchner funnel which involves a vacuum. The result was the separation of the copper oxide (a salt) from the liquid. We then poured sulfuric acid over this which dissolved it back into a blue liquid form. Then we put little chunks of zinc into the solution which produced a hydrogen gas and turned the copper into a solid and the blue disappeared from the liquid. The copper was now the normal copper color. It was absolutely amazing to see how we could change it back and forth from a solid state to a liquid state. Our professor was quite emphatic on his emphasis on safety for that lab because he said there were about 15 different ways we could kill ourselves that day. The acids were very corrosive and some of the solutions were highly flammable. We always have to wear goggles in the lab even if we're not working with acids and gases.
I had a really interesting church experience this morning. I went to another new church with one of my co-workers. This was a non-denominational church that was 95% black 5% white. Nobody worships God quite like the black people do. You just have to be happy when you're surrounded by them. They PRAISE the Lord. This was a fairly large church, and they knew I was coming. From the time I stepped in that door until I sat down, I think I got about 50 hugs from total strangers. My co-worker was in the praise team so she had told everybody she could see to watch for me and make sure I sat where she would sit after she was done singing. After the service she dragged me all over meeting this person and that because she was so proud that I had come. I sure hope I'm not called upon to remember all those names. I gathered from the conversations after the service that her husband is a police officer. Several people were complaining that when he sees them on the streets he honks at them and points accusingly at them making them appear guilty in front of the other motorists.
The sermon was really something. He preached on the headship order. The way he preached, you'd have thought he was a Mennonite! :-) He said that when you see women pastors, there is something wrong in that church. God only raises up women to leadership roles when the men aren't doing what they are called to do as in the case of Deborah in Judges. He also said that a lot of women today have to wear both the pants and the skirt, and it's wrong. He said that women WANT to be protected and cared for and will always have their fantasies of the "knight in shining armour" which is why they love romance novels. They read these and then they look at their husbands and just shake their heads. You should have heard the "amens" from the female portion of the audience. He even talked about women being silent and when they have a disagreement with what the pastor preached, they are supposed to go to their husbands. The husband will then discuss it with the pastor if there is a need to.
That's my update for the week, now I'm off to study some Chemistry.
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