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Alright so this week we talked about discrimination issues kind of. Well I cannot say that I am the best person in the world to come to while dealing with discrimination. I have feelings and view certain things differently than most people. I will honestly say that I do not agree with a lot of the things on the list from the email. I know that this is a sorter post but I think if we are to fully discuss this it needs to be something that is done on a more personal level but at the same time I want you to understand that I do not mean any of this in a bad way. I am only telling you in a no harm meant kind of way what I think and feel about this topic. If you wish to no more than ask and I will be willing to talk to you about it.

A Deeper Thought

Alright, so I have titled this blog A Deeper Thought. I will get right into what made me come up with this title. I have just spent the last hour going through and reading all these blogs. While reading I have of course been thinking, and because of how I am I have been thinking about just about everything coming up and about random things from the past. As I was reading I came up with something that I would never have thought about and am still not sure what made me think about it any more. So....How many of you, when you eat Chinese, are tired of getting a fortune cookie that really doesn't give YOU a fortune anymore. . . . Well I was and usually I take my fortune and read it, put it down and say that was a joke. Once again that happened today as I had some good Hy-Vee Chinese. My wonderful fortune was "To open the doors to your future, first you must open the door for others." Now between when I first started this and now I have come up with even more meaning to this. (random side note, just proves I think a lot about A LOT) However, after reading some of the blogs I have come to the conclusion that we are all taking this class to help us on our way to our future. By doing this we have unknowingly chosen a path that is making us open doors for others first. Now my brand new thought is adding more to it. By opening doors for others we are building a stronger base for us to push off of to reach our end goal. There have been many before us and I'm sure many behind us that will not take the time to open these doors for others and I am not saying they are going to fail but they will have to work harder to get to a point that we are. By opening these doors we have accepted that we cannot accomplish something on our own and that we are accepting some form of help from others to HELP US. There are times when we will struggle and there will be forms of help trying to help us but no matter what we have to open the door for them to get to us and help us. This can be looked at from so many directions that I am starting to loose my direct train of thought. So this is not what I had initially planned on posting but I think that this is something that everyone should take into consideration. You can not achieve everything in life without ever opening a door, but look at the other side as well sometimes someone will not open a door unless it is being knocked on, so if you can follow this great if not ask me to explain. (In all truth I am still explaining it to myself) However, I will leave you with that.

Good ol #2

Alright so Wednesday in class Josh and Hannah had us go over the questions in the book. I think these questions may have brought up some new things to think about and some that we have talked about prior to. I think that these questions are important for us to think about and use as guidelines. For those who don't remember they are 1) Who are you? 2) Why are you here? 3)Where are we going? 4)How are you doing? 5)What is working? What is not working? 6) Are we there yet? I think that although we may not have exact answers for these questions we can all come up with some ideas for how we would like to answer them. I think these are something that maybe we should come back to at the end of the semester or before we meet the incoming students and see what we think.......see if we really think that we are ready for what we are about to embellish upon. I know that right now I am still working on figuring some of these questions out for myself. But back to my other homework and tasks to get done so see you all Wednesday.