My Major Public Health Promotion!

Last semester I was apart of a class were we took a lot of what we had learn so far about my major and applied it in a real life situation. We were placed in groups with certain task regarding a certain topic. My groups topic was supporting and promoting the Utah health departments system of gathering and sharing public health stories. Also we were to combine this effort with Public Health week which was at the end of April. We each had to do a lot of research and write E-press releases Op-eds and end with a group Podcast. I really enjoyed this even if it was a lot of work. It was fun to put my major to action and really made me feel that I was heading in the right direction. When we were done we posted all our items on an Internet site known as wetpaint. I have provided the link to our site. Once there you will see a box to the left which has titles like "Op-ed" and then a name by it. Mine obviously say "Stephanie" You don't have to read them, (there not that long, a couple pages at most) but i will say that I am quite proud of them, and how they turned out. More important is the Podcast. Here is were I will implement a disclaimer IF YOU ARE EXPECTING REALLY HIGH PROFESSIONAL WORK PLEASE REMEMBER THIS IS OUR FIRST PODCAST EVER. ALSO THE SCHOOL SYSTEM WAS HAVING ISSUES SO WE COULDN'T MAKE IT AS PROFESSIONAL SOUNDING AS WE WOULD HAVE LIKED. For those who are not familiar with podcast it is essentially a radio broadcast over the Internet where people usually give information instead of having to read all about it. However they can also be commercials and advertisement (which is what ours is) Also they tend to be REALLY REALLY BORING!! So we were given the task by our teacher to make it more memorable and entertaining. Once you have opened the wetpaint the Podcast is located in a box on the right hand side the says Audio File: DID YOU KNOW!

Basically I just wanted to share this and have record of it. So that's all hope you enjoy. Just click the link below!

http://phstories.wetpaint.com

MIssissippi Part 3

Alright, so I think I am going to finish up the Mississippi trip with this post! For some reason my computer will not let me check the spelling and we all know how bad my spelling is, so I apologize now! I tried to go through and look for mistakes but I know there are many still left behind!



This is Eddies, or Jamies dad family. There are seven kids in their family! Grandma past a little over a year ago. We had a family get together with this side of the family and there had to be 35-40 people there! It was alot of fun. And I really enjoyed getting to know all of the family from both sides. We also had a get together with cassandras family but again I forgot to take pictures.



Ok once again I had to show the TREES! It was very thick here. This is what the called the "Country" lol so the trees got a bit bigger and thicker!



Presenting Momma James!






On Memorial day we loaded up the car and headed to Vicksburg! Vicksburg is the place were a critical battle was during the civil war, it is often known as the turning point of the war and major ground taken in the south! There is a visitors center and the you can drive, walk, or bike through the entire battle field. It is a really pretty area with Memorials set up EVERYWHERE! It was about an hour drive and I took MANY pics, so I will not post all just a few that I really liked! The few above are at the visiting center. There were cannon of all sizes on display. Terrence is the one sticking his head in one cannon! Thats Terrence for ya! LOL




This is a statue and plaque in honor of the man who came up with the idea of Memorial day!






THis was a huge building on a hill the picture with the trees was to show how high up we were! It was actually a cool memorial with all the names of Gernals and soldiers written in gold! The ceiling was domed with an opening at the top and the floor had the seal you see made out of stone!




This in honor of the all African American infantrys from Mississippi who participated in Vicksburg!



Heres the Great Mississippi River!




Memorial Graveyard on the Battle Field.


This is one of the few bridges that cross the Mississippi River. Once we got to the other side we were in Louisiana. We didnt stay long just enough to turn arond and go back, but now I can say I have been to Louisiana! :)



After Vicksburg we had dinner with Alberts Family, (the family from my last post) And then I had a suprise for Jamie! I had secretly booked us a night in the Hilton ont he executive floor! Just so we could have some alone time, after all this was a vacation ;)! So I asked him to give me a suprise look for the camera, and that is what he gave me! It was really nice though and alot of fun. Included was a five star breakfast buffet style that was AMAZING!!

Well I thought I was going to finsish but I forgot how many pics I had for Vicksburg, so I will make one more post later with graduation fun!

Mississippi Part 2

Mississsippi part two! Sorry it is taking so long to get these posted but our internet is having issues.
Sunday jamie and I were asked to give talks in sacrameeting! Jamie spoke on Honesty and I about temples. Both talks went well and I was really glad that we had that opportunity.



This is about half of the branch, although I will say that it was memorial weekend so I am sure some people were gone. I Loved the branch, it was a real testiment to me that no matter were you go how small or big the church is, weather you have a ward full of members who have family who crossed the plains, or a ward full of new converts, the gosple is the same. While at church I felt so welcomed by everyone and part of me wanted to move there just for the Branch! :)



These are some of the members that Jamie grew up with. The man in the blue shirt next to Jamie is Darcy. Darcy is a great guy. Jamie has many memories of ward activities involving Darcy. Next to Darcy is Terrence of course, the man in the brown suite or "copper" as Jamie liked to tease him about is Albert. Albert and his family are amazing. I will introduce them next but Jamie new albert before he got married to his amazing wife and had two beautiful children. I am not sure who the man in the Obama shirt is I believe he is an investigator or new member, he was really nice, but I am not sure about his name




The first picture is Alberts oldest daughter Tamia! She LOVED the camra she always wanted her picture taken.




This is Tamia and her youngest Sister A'Tia. A'Tia was so full of energy and played with me most of the time. She really made me want to have a kid! lol




Ok so you are probably wondering why I would post a pic like this, but this is Albert and his wife ( Ok I have been avoiding writting her name, because I am going to spell it wrong! Sorry but she is too amazing to not name) Kioka! I didnt not take this picture their daughter Tamia really wanted to take a picture ( I told you she loved the camra) so I told her to take one of her parent. Unfortunatly this is the only one I have!




So like I said these two loved pictures so I took a couple of us together, although I had issues fitting us all in! I spent the most time with this family and I really love them!






Well to finish the Church day I will end with a few more of the guys making faces and being funny. Jamie was really happy to meet up with his old friends again

Mississippi Part 1

Well we are home! After 10 great days in Mississippi, we are back home and dreading going back to work tomorrow. We really had a great trip. Lots of running around meeting family, places and eating tons of great food! I honestly think I gained like 5 pounds on the trip. Jamie was really happy to be home, and it was interesting to see how relaxed he bacame while back home. As I promised I did take many pictures, I am sure not all will be able to be posted with this one post so I might do chapters of Mississippi.

This is the first shot after leaving the airport in Mississippi. Jamie use to always tell me how he missed the trees and I never really understood what he meant until we landed! Man are there TREES!! I loved how green everything was

Once we got into Jackson we stayed at Grandma Margarets house! This is Jamies mother's mother! She was very kind to let us stay at her house with our own little sectiojn of the house with a bathroom and all to ourself. This is jamie leaving the bathroom. I realized that I didnt have pictures of Grandma or Big Mamma ( Jamies Great Grandma who is 91 and AMAZING!) But I know where to get some so I will post them another time!

We had the opportunity to visit Jamies old High School. It was a pretty cool school in the fact that you could tell that it was built years ago and was about three stories all inside. Jamies main purpose for going was to see his choir teacher who he loved! She was really great and let us stay and talk and play music for awhile

Around the thrid day in Mississippi we attended Jamies cousins baseball game! His team smashed the others Way to go Rico!!



Terrence got a hold of my camra during the baseball game, so I thought I would put just a few of these on here! LOL

Well I think I will stop there. I will add part two and three included sunday, church family, Memorial Day at Vicksburg, and of Course terrences graduation!
Until then...

And were off!

Tomorrow morning bright and early we leave to catch our 7:00 am flight for Mississippi! Many of you might have not known that we were going to Mississippi, in fact we have been planning this trip for about a year now, the main reason why we are going is for Jamie's younger brothers graduation. I have refrained from talking about it on here because he doesn't know we are coming. I don't really think he reads our blog, but I figured just to be safe I wouldn't mention anything, but now since we are leaving tomorrow and he will see us, I guess it is not a secret anymore! Jamie is very, I mean VERY excited to go home, see family friends and eat what he calls "real" food. Jamie has not been back to Mississippi for almost three years now, and I have never been there, so this trip is long over due. I will make sure to take lots of pictures and have a big update when we come home from our two week trip.

Until then keep us in your thoughts and prayers as we travel, also for me as I am beginning to get very nervous ( I get very nervous about new places, cultures, and even more the family that I have not met) Funny thing is that I love the learn about people and culture and what to travel the world, I just get nervous when it come to actually going... My mom would say that is the story of my life with EVERYTHING!
Any until next time....