Weekend News

The weekends are fun when I hang out with my friends.  This weekend I spent time with my family.  I went fishing on Saturday with my cousin and his family.  I did not want to go anywhere but I really needed to get out of the house and away from my computer.  I had so much fun and relaxed so much.  I wanted to go try the new restaurant but did not have anyone to go with.  Sunday, my aunt and uncle made me an early birthday lunch.

My thoughts

What is Passive learning?  I think Active learning is when students are learning with hands-on activities.  The teacher has produced open-ended learning.  A Constructivist approach to teaching would have an active learning environment. This leaves me to assume that the Traditionalist teacher that wants to lecture all the time, would have a Passive learning environment.  The passive learning, would be when the teacher does all of the lecturing and the students would be taking down notes the whole time.  Students don't learn very well this way.

Picture

We were told to look a picture of a beach with waves crashing against the seawall.  The house looks like a castle or venue of some sort. There's someone lying on the beach. I don't know if they are asleep or dead.  If this was my home, it would be one of many.  It would be summer getaway.  I would invite organizations that care for troubled children to come and visit for a weekend.  I would set up so many activities for the kids so that they would have so much fun.  I would also have the children stay over with supervision from adults.

I'm lying here, enjoying the rays of the sun blaring down on me and the crash of the waves soothe my inner thougts.  I can't help to think where I am going to be tomorrow.  I don't know why I am here and who I am.  One day I hope to find out.  The people in the window look like they are having so much fun. I don't remember the last time I laughed.  If I lie here long enough maybe they won't see me and I can enjoying another night of peace.  The seagulls are no bother to me since I have no food to give them, maybe when the glamourous people leave I can search for some around the area.  

My thoughts

I found out that my apartment manager is going to raise the rent when I renew my lease next month. I had to look for a new place to live and that is hard with every thing else going on. I also worked out yesterday for two hours. OMG!!! I never workout for that long. Today, my body is sore but I feel good.  Maybe I will workout today too. We have a midterm due tomorrow and I completely forgot about it.  I'm going to have to work on the midterm this afternoon when I get out of work.  I totally forgot to do so many things for today.  I didn't work on my presentation and I forgot to bring a book so I had to go to the library and check out a book. I hope that I won't forget to do anything that I need to do for tomorrow.

What I would do with a Brick

I would use a brick:
to hold the door open
as a paper weight
to hold up a leg on a broken table.
smush a bug
put it in a bag and workout with it
put it in my car in case I need it.
paint it
use it as decoration in a garten

Writer's Identity

I see myself as a writer that only needs to write when I have to.  I really don't writing for fun. When I think about it, I chat with people all of the time about different matters. You would think that I would love to write.  I'm always posting status reports about my life on Facebook.  I know that's not the same thing. I think I could become a writer. If I am forced to write, I feel that's where the fun goes away.  When I do things on my own that are meaningful to me, I enjoy that better.  Even now I am having a hard time writing. I know what the topic is but I would much rather be writing about other things.  I know that I need to build up a love for writing in order to help my students become awesome writers.  I love learning new ways to improve my teaching skills and I think this class will help become a better a teacher in the future.  I love to write things about my family, myself, my interests.

Project

I was really stressing over this project. I thought to myself "this is a summer class for you."  I really enjoyed reading the information that needed to be presented.  When I started looking at all the pages that needed to be read I started freaking out so much that my brain stopped working on me, I shut down. I had to take a step back and just read it.  Then on Friday, I started freaking out even more because I forgot to get the email and phone number from the other two people in  my group and I really needed to talk to one of them about changing the time of our meeting.  I had to go on to Facebook to look for them. I found one of them and I sent her a message.  Once I was done writing her message, I saw that she was friends with another girl I field based with.  I message her too and asked her for my group members email or phone number.  It was a very interesting day waiting for her to reponse.