The Gum Tree for 2004 December 1

Louise is doing a TESOL (English Second Language) internship at Deseret Industries. She was a little aprehensive about it because this is her first out of school job (in high school she didn't have any jobs and the only work she has had was TA or Lab assistant work so far). She worked with a lady in the shoe department yesterday helping her become more marketable in the job market by learning English. Well, Last night she had a funny dream. She dreampt that she was in the olympic Diving Finals. She got up on the high dive, and ran out to do her dive when, she slipped and did some kind of pencil cartwheel in the air before smashing into the water. She also had some nightmare about shoes taking over the world or something like that. I also had the pleasure to see Oliver Sacks speak at devotional today on BYU campus. It was a wonderful opportunity for me to see this world renoun writer and physician speak about Alzheimer's Desease. It was a wonderful lecture, and I can see why Robin Williams was chosen to play him in the movie "Awakenings." He had the most interesting personal idiosyncracies. He was genuine and a wonderful speaker. Oliver Sacks closing statement was that "if one were to develop Alzheimer's, then one would do well to live in Utah with its spiritual base and close community ties." He was brilliant, and my interest was peaked once again to go to Albert Einstein COM to perhaps be able to have him as a teacher and mentor.