Well Monday is here, back to school! It was an okay day! First Class of the day was Communications. We learned that communication refers to the process of human beings responding to symbolic behavior or to other persons. It is a human survival skill needed to maintain contact with the world. Aren't you excited? We also learned the types of communication, functions of communication, and modeling communication. Now that you are all as board as I was and am in that class I will get on to more exciting things.
The next to horrific hours were in accounting. Our professor has no clue how to teach - again, he told us this himself. He jumps from one thing to another and does not explain why he does what he does. Can I just say that T accounts are confusing? During class I seemed to understand but as soon as I brought home my 21 pages of homework I lost all of the information and knowledge I thought I had. Can I tell you that I know enough, to know that I do not know enough! How do you keep track of where debits and credits go and why are they both positive and negative depending on which account you are using? How do you know what should go where? Help!!!! I heard that most of our tests in here will be open book. Yippee - but I still think I have to understand this stuff even to use then book!
Accounting was followed by Mortuary Law. It was a pretty cool class so far but we learned a lot about the history of funeral service which kind of made our last class (History of funeral service) redundant. Did you know that since the dawn of man societies have had some form of disposition and ceremony of the body at death? Embalming became necessary during the civil war and it was in the late 1800's when licensing for embalming and funeral directing became required. There are four different foundations of funeral service. They are Religious, Philosphical, Psychological, and sociological. There are 5 factors: psychological, religious, racial, social and economic. My professor for this class is a veterinarian who graduated from Purdue and then went back to school for Funeral Service and is now he coroner for her county! Cool! She is very loud and speaks very highly of herself.
Last class of the day was Funeral Service History. We learned that Funerak Customs are as old as the history of manm preceding such more recent developments as the treatment of disease, the formation of governments, and even the formation of definite religious beliefs. There are 4 natural means of body preservation and 11 artificial means of preservation. The Paleolithic era or stone age was the first to have a funeral adn to first draw pictures of burials. The one thing I didnt like about this class was its definition of Pagans. "A Pagan is one who has little or no religion and who delights in sensual pleasures and material goods; heathen; an irreligious or hedonistic person." Wow that is nothing like the real Pagan. Pagans are so non-materialistic that I have no idea where the author of our information got theirs. Strange.
School today was okay, people are starting to talk more. It still amazes me the type of clothes some of these people are wearing when we are supposed to be in business casual.. Some look like they should be on a street corner. Well about to get to bed. Post more tomorrow!
* Just want to say thank you to my wonderful and gorgeous husband and beautiful kids for standing by me and supporting me. LOVE YOU!
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