He has risen

I will graduate in a bit.  But first about the virus!
I received a call from the Urgent Care, the Dr there gave me the permission to get tested.  My test came in NEGATIVE so the fact that I feel OK is confirmed in that I am NOT sick.  So now the BIG question.  How could Terry have gotten it?  She had not been out of the house for about 6 weeks and during that time she had 1 visitor who is not sick.  For me that makes me more positive that she tested wrong.  I will see what I can do tomorrow.  I feel that she is NOT getting better and maybe a tiny bit worse and they are treating her as if she has the virus when it is really something else that badly needs to be addressed.  Hoping I can get some answers tomorrow.

HAPPY EASTER

Senior year of college 1968/1969

So Gail and I are married June 1st, 1968 and we hurry back to  Minot for summer school.  Gail needs some classes for her double major and I need some classes for mine, a BS in secondary ed and then Deaf ed. 

• We live in a basement apartment for the summer.  At the end of summer school we decide to take a vacation so we take a bunch of school papers and hide out at Uncle Hugo's cabin in Minnesota for a few days.  Such was our honeymoon and it shows that I still am immature in so many ways.
• Fall comes and we move to on campus at the school for the deaf in Devils Lake.  We will be there until the end of the fall term.  There we take classes 3 evenings a week from either Mr. Hayek, the superintendent, or Mrs. Lake who is the supervisor of the program.  During the day we observed classes and then a few days a week we are given a student to tutor.  Gail has Cynthia Held who is just a darling little girl and I suspect there came the name for our only girl.  I have a boy named Brad.  He just will not open up about anything and it is frustrating to say the least.  THEN one day as we are leaving the building Old Main I push on the door to open it ahead of him and my hand slips and it goes through a pane of glass.  Nothing serious but there is blood and all of a sudden Brad talks a LOT.  
• We live on the second floor of Old Main which is vacant now except for us.  We have a bedroom, a bathroom that is big enough for a family to all use at the same time and a living room what could house many students.  NO kitchen.  We had cords all over the place as the outlets are few and far between.  
• The fall ends and we load our 1963 Chevy and head to Minot for the winter.  There we settle into Miss Cox's basement apartment.  Miss Cox is the dean of women at the college and she took a liking to Gail.  It is during the winter that Gail works on her masters and I do practice in speech therapy and in secondary ed.  I work at the hospital with a man in his 50's or so who fell off a bucking horse and had a stroke.  His speech is barely understandable and it is both enlightening and frustrating to work with him. After the winter quarter I often wondered what happened to him.  In secondary ed I student teach a social studies class at Minot High.
• so spring comes and we load the car again and head to Devils Lake.  There we are into student teaching in a way that is hard to imagine.  On Fridays we are to hand in lesson plans to Mrs. Lake for the following week.  We are expected to write down EVERY thing we say in each class!  We type out our lessons and they go anywhere from 12-15 pages.  AND that is for only 2 classes a day.  In the evening we again are subjected to classes 2 nights a week.  I remember one Friday we came back to our apartment (the same one as fall) and collapsed on the bed.  We both fell fast asleep and woke up to the sunrise the next day.  I know that happened more than once.
• May came and we and our classmates were kind of on pins and needles.  There had been a total of 6 of us, 3 in the winter and 3 in the spring.  We knew there would be 2 openings for the fall of 1969 so 2 could stay and 4 would be gone.  The superintendent called each of us in to let us know.  First Gail went in and was offered a job.  She informed Mr. Hayek that she was expecting and would not be teaching.  He asked if she could start the fall and then take some time off when the baby came.  She declined.  Next Jackie went in and she was offered a job.  That left 1 job opening and I was called in on a Friday after classes were over at 3:30.  Mr Hayek offered me a job and said I would be teaching grade 4.  The current grade 3 class were pretty much from H___ but I felt I could do the job.  He said that if I would agree to help with football and basketball he could make my contract for $6,000.  I thought I would be rich for sure!  Well I found out the average teaching salary in ND that year was $6700!!!  Maybe that was not for first year teachers BUT.  So ended our year of 68/69 with moves and moves and moves.
•   We needed money so I got a job at Lake Ready Mix and I actually can not remember the wages but it was not much.  It was also that summer that we needed to move off campus and find a place to live.      

So ended our schooling and moving for several years.  Well I did begin work on my masters in the fall of 1972.  I took a class at Devils lake Junior College.  Over the next 4 years there were classes in Nebraska, Devils Lake and Grand Forks and I finished with my degree in the summer of 1976.  My goal had been to finish before John started school and I did.    

      I will sign off with a picture of the bread I baked yesterday.  OK so I kind of cheated and used frozen dough but still I feel it is proof that I am doing something with my time!  After all I did have to read directions and follow them which for me is kind of a lot of work!!!  The kids are going to Zoom at noon today so I will get to see all the kiddos, that will be fun.