"It is not the ctitic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."

~Theodore Roosevelt

Monday, January 10, 2011

One at a Time

~Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
~Confucius

Ah, I had plenty to write about when I wasn't listening in class today... haha :)

I just have to say the snow today was beautiful! It was coming down really slowly and lightly when I was walking to my D&C class today and it looked like glitter!

So, sitting in French this morning we were conjugating irregular verbs on power point slides. The teacher would put up je, tu, elle, il, nous, vous, ils, or elles-I, you, etc... and a verb and we'd have to tell him what it was supposed to be.

Now, this is one of the easier exercises. And, though I do still have a hard time with avoir, aller, faire, and etre, I studied and could figure them out. He went through the list, randomly calling on people. I'd mouth most of the answers to myself. Then he called on me for one I wasn't sure about.

If I'd had a minute to think without the whole class watching me and only the threat of losing a point rather than feeling stupid in front of the class I would have figured it out. But I did it wrong.

I don't know why that bugs me so much. I can get C's and D's on French tests and feel like I did really well-cuz I know I didn't know most of it :P But messing up in front of the class is terrible!

Enough on the negative. We are five days into the semester! Four days to a three day weekend in which I get to go home! I'm on top of my homework! Getting along with my roommates! Went to a wonderful CES Fireside last night-totally what I needed to hear :)

Elder Christofferson spoke last night on taking things one day at a time. He spoke of a woman undergoing radiation. She said she didn't think she could take 15 more of them. Her mother asked if she could get through the one that day.

He talked about making resolutions. They may seem daunting when we think of doing them for endless days. But if we wake up each morning and resolve to keep that resolution that day, we can handle it.

I needed that for many reasons. It was a wonderful talk :)

Here is the link for the Deseret News article on it. And here is the broadcast in case you're interested :)
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