Surgery

I pierced my ears at the age of eleven or twelve I don't quite remember exactly what age I was. The reason why I had my ears pierced was because all my sisters had already pierced theirs so I wanted to have mine pierced too. As soon as I had them pierced, they hurt for a couple of days and my mom was helping me take care of them. I was wearing the same type of earrings which were gold because my mom had told me that it is best to wear only gold earrings.

A couple of months later I began to feel a small little bump on the back of my left ear but I decided to ignore it because I thought it happens to everyone whom had just pierced their ears. my mom told me to just keep treating my ears well and she said that they will be fine.

When I was in high school the little bump on the back of my ears was getting bigger and bigger everyday. every time i looked in the mirror I would notice a slight change in size. My mother decided to arrange for me a doctor's appointment and when we went to the doctor, she told me that what I had was known as Keeloids. my doctor said that one usually gets them when your skin is sensitive to any kind of piercings. she said the best way to get rid of them is by injecting some medical steroids in them to see if they will reduce in size if not then i was to have surgery so they can be removed.

Before spring break my mom had scheduled for me a doctor's appointment at Whidden Hospital in Everett so I can have surgery on my ears. During Spring break I was told to come in on Thursday for my appointment but the night before the surgery there were certain things I was told not to do. For example I was told not to eat anything after midnight, or even drink water, I was also told not to chew gum, or any other kind of breath mint not until after my surgery. I went fifteen hours without eating because the surgery was scheduled at 3:00 pm.

After the surgery I went home with a gauze and bandages on both of my ears and the doctor prescribed some medication that I was supposed to take for the pain and some antibiotics. Taking the medication I would at times feel dizzy and drowsiness but those were the side effects from it and sometimes when I went to sleep I would feel some pain. so I had to take the medication four times a day, every 6 hours and I'm still taking it. currently I don't feel any pain no more but I am supposed to go back to the hospital next week so I can have the stitches taken out.

So much work to do

Lately i have been able to balance all of my work and try to get it done on time until recently on Tuesday when my English professor began to pile so much work on her class. she told us that because she's going to be absent in mid march she decided that we get all our done early. therefore she assigned us a five page paper due tomorrow along with questions from the text book that we use; then another five page paper that's due on tuesday with a ten page paper due that same day, in total she's looking for fifteen pages due next week on tuesday. the ten page paper is a research paper about how music has changed the ideal image of an average woman in society today as compared to the 1930s and the other five page paper is a persuasive paper about music has a positive impact on our community.

The only thing that's bothering me about these assignments is that they are all about the same topic; music. since the beginning of the semester we've been writing about music. i just wish we had a different topic that had nothing to do with music. Besides my english assignments i have a test in my history class also on tuesday and i haven't studied for that yet. also next week is my birthday on Friday March 6th but i'm not that excited about because i have to get all my work done first before i celebrate anything.

Besides work, work, work, i am looking forward to doing a nursing internship abroad this summer in England. i really want to do because i think it's a great opportunity and a fun experience and also it will good on my resume. i've always wanted to study abroad and i have the chance to do it so why not take it. i am going to meet with the study abroad advisor on monday so we can go over the paper work. This, i am excited about.

my online class

When i registered for classes last semester, the learning center told me that i had to take a computer class and that its a requirement for graduation at Salem State college. on my schedule it said that i am taking computers and there uses and we are meeting three days a week. my computer professor changed the class to an online class because she said its more convenient for us and her schedule. I have never taken an online class before and i thought it would be easy but i find it more challenging than i thought it would be. you have to download the assignments and work on them through Microsoft word. but the instructions are word for word and sometimes when i don't understand what the instructions are saying i don't have anyone to ask. i am used to going to class and ask my teacher questions if i am stuck on something. I find it hard with the online class because there are so many features that are new to me and i find myself not submitting my assignments on time. And also if you make one mistake then the whole assignment is wrong. Therefore i prefer going to class just like everybody else than take a class online

Really sick

This past week I've been really sick, i had a fever a headache, a cold and flu, i couldn't sleep at all and i stayed up coughing all night. everyday when i woke up it seemed like i was getting worse and worse. i had to call my mom in the middle of the night at like 2:00 am in the morning and i told her i didn't feel so good. i told her that i was burning up and that i think i caught a fever. i told her that i can't sleep and she offered to come pick me up late at night from school on a Thursday night and she did. she took me to the emergency room and i stayed there until the morning. she took me home and i missed school Friday and Monday and i came back Monday evening because i didn't want to miss my tuesday classes and i had also felt a little bit better. i felt like i was strong enough even though i was still suffering from a really bad sore throat. luckily my mom gave me some cough syrup to take with me at school and she told me it should help me ease on the sore throat. she also told me that if i get sick again i should call her or my dad. i have to say that those were the worst couple of days i've had at school so far and i am feeling much better now.

Personal Biography

My real name is Vivian Mary Mutebi and I come from a family of 11 children, 5 brothers and 5 sisters. My family is very religious especially my mother. I don't think that there’s a day when my mother didn't go to church. Every time she goes to church she expects me to go with her because she is that much of a religious person. At a very young age my parents took me to a boarding school along with my brothers and sisters. Although we all went to different boarding schools I have to say that my experience in a boarding school shaped me as an individual but also had a negative effect on me. Boarding schools helped shape my behavior because whenever I went home, I helped my mother more often with house chores and ran all the errands for her. Boarding schools definitely put me on my best behavior and I also raised my grades up every semester because the teachers were very strict. The one thing that I didn’t like about boarding schools was the fact that the kids would try to scare you all the time especially at night in the dorms when the dorm matron turns the lights off. The kids in boarding schools would tell you stories like there was a cat and white lady walking around in the dorm at night. Such stories always made me scared and I told my mother about but she never believed me. At the age of thirteen my family moved to the United States in the summer of 2003 and I started going to school in the 8th grade at Salem Wood School. I felt out of place for the first month of school but eventually I got the hang of it. When I graduated from the 8th grade I went on to Malden High School in the 9th grade. As soon as I went to Malden High I joined the dance club. They taught ballroom dancing, hip hop, and lyrical. I was excited because I’ve always wanted to dance but I was too shy to do it in front of a large crowd. When pep rally came I performed in front of the whole school with my group members. It was one of the happiest moments of my life. Ever since then dancing has been a big priority in my life. The other thing that I love to do is playing badminton. Badminton is very fun sport; it’s almost like playing tennis the only difference is that the net is placed up high in the air like a volleyball net. Playing badminton is the other thing that keeps me busy besides dancing. My friends and family are always very supportive of me especially my father. I am currently enrolled at Salem State College trying to major in Nursing and I hope to graduate in at least 3 to 4 years.

Loud music

Today i canceled my 2:00 o'clock class because i had a serious headache. i just didn't feel so good so I did what any mature person would do and I personally went and told my professor if i could be excused from today's class because i didn't feel good at all. she asked me if i posted up my assignment and i told her yes i did. she told me that as long as i did my homework then i should be good and she let me go. when i went back to my room i took a nap till 8:00 pm because i was woken up by loud music from the room next door. the music was so loud that i felt the room vibrating and shaking. i had to get up from my bed and went to go tell the room next door to me to turn their music down. i thought they did but 20 minutes later it got loud again. they would turn it up and turn it down over and over again the whole night. at that point i thought to myself how can people be so inconsiderate, selfish, and self centered. i don't know how i slept through that loud music but i did.