December Graduation 2010

Left to Right: Grandpa Ron, Grandma Carol, Grandma Nola, Dad, Mom, Chad, Chelsea, Manuel, Gordo, Consuelo, Gerardo, and Frank


A lot has happened in our life since June 2010. I figured I would update the blog of the important happenings in our life!

December Manuel graduated with his Associates Degree from BSU/CWI! It was a super exciting day. We didn't know if he would be graduating or not in December, due to some classes he was testing out of and the lack of communication a bunch of people can have. See at the beginning of Fall 2010 he was told he would need to test out of Spanish to get the credits, well he was also told to do it after he finished his first 8 week class, because the class itself was a little heavy and not so easy. So after his 8 week class, he was prepping to take the Spanish test out. He goes to the testing center, takes a test, approximately 2.5 hours long, and tests for 16 credits!! I was pretty proud, I mean the man does speak the language, it was just nerve-wrecking because it would determine his graduation or not, or so we though! So he forwards the appropriate information to the appropriate people. Only to find out that the test he could only tests out the classes and only gives him the credits pending he ACTUALLY pass the class he tested up too, NOT WHAT WE NEEDED, or WANTED. So they basically tell him to contact this professor at BSU to see if she will give him a test to 'test' his knowledge...She would have happily done it for him, had it been during the first 5 weeks of school....WHAT, so at this point, we were pretty sure he would be a 2011 rather than 2010 graduate, so we went about our life and we was working with Paula (the education god) at Micron. She figured things out, told him to return to the testing center, take the appropriate test (Thank you BSU Testing Center, for 1 not giving the proper test, and 2 taking 6 hours of my husbands life) so, after many hours of testing, he was given the correct test, and he passed :) 16 credits worth and life was golden for the Mr. Vega!

We were just talking the other night how nice it is to not have school (I will admit it though, I do miss it...at times) It is nice to reflect back on the last few years of life and how we managed through it all, class, homework, group projects, papers, tests, and all that school life entails. I think I stressed more over his school work rather than my own, because I was more of a deadline setter, and he works best on last minute prepping and doing it under pressure. At first, I couldn't handle the way he did his work, studying for tests the day of, doing project (starting) days before it was due and writing papers and finishing the night of...always stressed me out, but I did learn that that is the way he learned the best and did the bet, so I learn to adjust, it was a huge adjustment and biting of my tongue on sometimes, but he did well in school and he is a smart cookie!! One of his professors did tell him Congrats on graduating during his last class with him and told him he would miss seeing him around!