Well guys, i don’t know what to really say. But how many of you guys nearly finished or done with your workshops? I just got Career Planning done. I went to the same one as Johnny but on a different say. The stuff was very informative, talking about sitting posture, our physical appearance can really make or break an interview. I don’t have much else to say but i wish that the workshop was just a little shorter then two hours. But nothing else to complain about
Today I went to a personal enrichment workshop in which they taught you techniques on how to reduce stress and anxiety. Most of it were calm meditations involving tensing and releasing muscles. We did this once in psychology. They also told us a method of bargaining or asking someone else for something called “DEAR MAN”. I forgot what it stood for but it is for negotiation. Also we had to eat a raisin very slowly.
Finally done with 6 workshops and I have to say they shouldn’t have made it mandatory. They should have made it less so we only have to go to the most useful ones. I just went to whatever workshop that fulfilled the requirement. The walk was okay, but everything else I went to was not worth the time.
THE MOST BORING CLASS ALL DAY!!! He is the worst teacher I have had since 5th grade and i’m mad that im paying for this class. Everybody who attends this class at least falls asleep once a day and loses focus all the time. He shows these movies and talks during them so you can’t hear what the characters are saying. I don’t know, maybe i’m being to harsh on him. Nah i’m not!
weak. i dont really need to sit there and learn how google works for about 45 minutes. what i would like to have learned is how to get past the torrent firewall at the library aka something useful. i appreciate the effort but in the end the presentation itself left much to be desired and i couldn’t hear what was being said half the time and i was technically sitting in the front. i had to fulfill the requirement somehow i guess.
has anyone signed up for these research experiments, i’m not really sure where to sign up, and when the dates are. If anyone would like to tag along in finding this out i think it would be better we all go as a group.
today a group of us walked with sasha’s golden key honors society in a park on 97th street and riverside drive. at first i wasnt really happy that i had to wake up extra early on sunday to walk all the way on the upper west side. it was also really cold so that made me even more reluctant to participate. however the day warmed up and it ended up being a nice walk. it was also pretty encouraging to see the spirit of many people who showed up to walk. they were so exuberant and upbeat to be a part of this event. many were walking for loved ones and even made shirts to represent family members who had Alzheimer’s. it made me think of whether or not i shared the same enthusiastic attitude for anything.
Today I went to the Alzheimer’s walk as part of the community & global awareness workshop at Riverside park at 96th street from 9 am-12:30 pm. At first I was kind of skeptical, I’m not going to lie. I got home the night before at 3:40 am and got up 4 hours later to go. Coming home that late probably sounds like a bad decision on my part but I wasn’t planning to go to the walk till the day before because the blood drive that I was planning to do was no longer considered a workshop.
So I got up grumpy and tired in the morning, got dressed quick threw a snuggie box at my little brother because it was his birthday and left around 8 am, which totally explained why i looked like a hot mess. I finally met up with Sasha and everyone else closer to 10, registered quick and we started moving deeper into the park for the free food and the actual walk. The people attending seemed incredibly excited to be there which I found to be sort of strange for two reasons: 1. it was too early on a Sunday and 2. People were walking in memory of people who died and for an overall fatal disease, I see no joy in this. People brought their dogs and dressed in purple, I also think its kind of strange that people have allocated colors for diseases.
The 2 mile walk passed by quick. we were all chatting and enjoying each others company- I even learned that Sasha knew a few “interesting” words in Russian :).
Coming home I was pretty content with myself- I was glad I attended the event and kind of felt good i just contributed to a good cause.
Being at this event made me realize I knew practically nothing about Alzheimer’s disease, so I wikipedia-ed (this could be a verb?) it and learned some interesting things. Turns out Alzheimer’s is pretty wide spread, with over 35 million people suffering from it worldwide. It is a type of dementia that affects the elderly and it causes memory loss, and later on other bodily functions and processes degenerate and the end result is death. This is a serious mental disease and i realized i was a little ignorant because I never knew AD was that crippling and seeing so many people walking for their loved ones that they lost to AD was pretty much eye opening.
I am really scared of these history quizes because im never quite sure how much i should study for them. One party of me really likes them because they make it easier when you have to study for the test but even though these quizes are so small they put a lot of stress on my weekend. Im not sure if all you guys agree, but maybe you come explain to me how you study for them.
I guess they made a new update to facebook. Due to that its almost completly whack. It tells me basically what every *beeping* on my friendslist is doing ,thats anoying. Also, its telling me to talk to people I don’t really care about I only accepted their request in the first place because I’m not a mean person and if I sent a request I would not want it to be rejected. Too much information facebook, system fail.
