Work and My Address

Well work has been crazy. In 3 days I worked 33 hours. We all had been working too much so today we had a half day. The pay period ends today and I earned 39.5 hours.
Thus far my duties have included: spot spraying weeds in pine straw beds, mowing greens, mowing tees, walk mowing a fairway, mowing "2 pass" around the greens, spreading "starter" fertilizer around greens, and blowing grass clippings from the rough.
Yesterday as I was mowing the fairway, I spotted a disease, I think it was yellow patch, the boss said it is fusarium blight or pink snow mold. This was the first time I felt like my education was worth while.

My new address is: 1910 Sharon Oaks Lane Apt #304 Charlotte, North Carolina 28210

Home Sweet Home

I made it to Charlotte, NC at 12:30 this afternoon. I am living with Mike Stanton, one of the guys I went to Rutgers with. We live about one mile from the golf course in a really nice three bedroom apartment. I will be sharing a room with another guy, but for the time being I have my own room. We (Mike and I) start work tomorrow morning. The trip down from New Jersey to North Carolina was fairly uneventful. It was interesting to see the evidence of spring as I drove further south. Here in Charlotte some of the trees have bloomed, but for the most part the trees remain dormant. It is currently raining, but it is a nice, warm, spring rain.

Nice television, probably at least 32"

Nice kitchen, stocked with everything??? well at least a fridge full of beer...
Shared bedroom, my roommate is not here yet

Nice walk-in closet

Bathroom

Turf School Day Forty-Seven a.k.a FINALS WEEK-Day Four and Closing Celebration

Today was our last day of turf school. We had our construction, surveying, and soils exams. I feel that my studying last night and discussing concepts with Jeff paid off and I understood all the material we covered.

After our finals we had a luncheon and sat around talking and saying our farewells. It is going to be an exciting summer and it is going to be good to get together again in a year to discuss our various work experiences.

I am now headed off to Covington, Va!!!

I will post my grades as soon as I know how I did.

Turf School Day Forty-Six a.k.a FINALS WEEK-Day Three

This morning we had our finals for both our tree identification class and our weed management class. On the tree id portion of the exam I missed one tree out of ten. I think I did alright on the written portion of the tree class.
The weed identification was another story. The test had 20 true or false questions, but if the statement was false we had to correct it and make it read true. I think I did fine on this exam as well, but only time will tell.

Tomorrow I will not have a chance to blog, but we have a final in our construction and surveying class followed by a final for our soils class. After our finals we will be having a little luncheon and then I will be heading to Covington, Va to stay with a family from my mission. I am planning on staying Friday and Saturday night, then attending church on Sunday and heading down to Charlotte, NC after church.

Thank you everyone for following me through my adventure at Rutgers. More posts will follow when I arrive in Charlotte

Turf School Day Forty-Five a.k.a FINALS WEEK-Day Two

Day two of finals week went fairly well. I focused most of my time and attention on the material for our Pest Management class and did VERY well on the exam. I woke up early this morning to get some study time for the other exams we were going to have. I felt good about the information for our irrigation final and we had a review before the exam which really helped. I then looked over the material for our landscape management final and our plant hormone final.
You would think that having a major in landscape management the class would be really easy, but i have my worst grades in that class. The teacher asks true and false questions that could be both true and false. Then he grades them and does not give them back to us to look over, so I do not have the opportunity to argue my answers. At the beginning of the year he was my favorite teacher, but now he is my least favorite teacher. After our landscape management final we were given our plant hormone final. I have no idea how I did on this test either. I tried to learn the material, but what I comprehended from the powerpoint slides we were given was very different from the test.

Results from day two: 2 A's and 2 B or C's

Turf School Day Forty-Four a.k.a FINALS WEEK-Day One

Today was our first day of finals. We had our turfgrass management final and our turfgrass disease final. They were both relatively easy thanks to my knowledge and the study guide I put together.
My predictions for today's exams: two A's.

Now I am back to studying for more tests tomorrow.

Turf School Day Forty-Three and Quick Trip to Michigan

Friday was our last day of classes. It was a great last day. We had 2 quizzes, and the day was cut short due to rain.

After class I went to the airport to fly to Michigan to surprise my sister, Christina, as a belated birthday gift and for Kyla's baby blessing.

It was a great trip and the baby is precious!!! I had a great time with my family, and can't wait until we all can get together again.