Current Events...

Today in class we are going to be talking about the idea of Current Events. These are my ideas on the subject:
Everyone when signing up for classes, First Year Students will all sign up for the class called CURRENT EVENTS.
Class will meet 2wice a week
Students will take out a subscritption to newspaper
Class discussions will pertain to whatever they have been reading in the newspaper and how to be able to distinguish propaganda from real stories.
I think it would be cool to have someone come and talk to the students such as a reporter...so then they would be able to tell the students what the main part of the story is and how to distinguish it and how they go about getting their stories.
Maybe have students write a short paper every once and a while about a current event of their choice.
I think we should still have gathering Jamboree thing for all the students
I think each class would get to pick a certain current event and be able to present it however they feel neccesary.
Each class would have to present a different current event. To determine who picks first you could do like a lottery thing or something...
but thats all i got for right now....im sure in class we will have reached some more ideas and thoughts!
Laters!

!!! Jamboree !!!

So Jamboree was exciting and not exciting at the same time. In class there seemed to be soo much hype and all this grandeur and pom about what the FYS Jamboree was supposed to be. It was a good time getting ready for Jamboree, I think our class definately had fun learning how to swing dance and it was a really cool idea that we had a live band playing. I think that added a little more to our performance. But it was sad that not very many people came to watch us dance or even would participate with us. I think I recall Michelle having to pull someone of their chair to come dance with us. But then again, we did have some people who were willing to learn, even though it may not have been the "cool thing" to do.
While Adam and I sat at the table (haha more like sat on the couch because of all the people at the booth) it didnt seem like very many people stopped by and talked to our table. I thought that was kind of depressing in itself. But then when I think about what I did, I wandered around and went to the booths but didn't really vocalize any questions or comments. I was soaking it up in my own accord.
I totally dont think they should call the Jamboree, Human Diversity. I think that was a lazy way to try to combine what everybody was learning.
Actually, I still am not quite sure what the point of FYS classes are. I enjoyed this class, but my roomate actually had a lot more papers to write than we had to do. As we mentioned in class I just dont see the "common experience" being present. I still dont see if this was like a learning experience to prepare you for your college classes, but if that was the point I believe it was lost....

Discussion Summary( a little late..ok..well super late...)

So tonite I was reading over the course blog and discussion summary and realized that I completely missed my discussion summary. So I am attempting to ask for forgiveness and doing a little summarizing up...
So in our class there really hasnt been that much discussion other than practicing for our amazing jamboree performance. We have met in the Louie's Lower Level and practiced our dancing. We have decided to teach the sexual advance ( not asexual reproduction....ahemm...my bad) and some other simple inside outside turns. We also learned how to do the pretzel which is kind of an exciting dance move. We talked about recruiting people to help us teach the dance moves and have decided that we will not be dressing up.... sad... I think that we have improved a lot. The band also practiced while we danced our hearts out. They started out with one tune and then switched to another. We decided to do a music show and have people pick out two songs and bring them to class. People are also in charge of promoting our dancing extravaganza. The little discussion we have had that doesn't revolve around the Jamboree pertains to the music lists that we have been listening to. We discussed the religious songs and how some of them sounded semi-familiar such as we may have heard a cover of the song....
So I am completely sorry that I missed my date by ummm a couple or maybe more days...weeks... But that's all I got for my discussion summary. We really haven't talked a lot, but danced and played our way to prepare ourselves for Jamboree!!

Swing Dancing Adventures

So approximately one week ago Dan and I decided to venture to Swing dancing club.. I was a little skeptic at first but I have to admit it was some crazy good times!! Maybe for me and not for Dan..we learned how to do some lifts..which hurt Dan cuz I kind of wasnt doin it right....sorry!! But i did get a big ol pretty bruise from Dan too! but it was really cool and we learned how to do the cool pretzel dance move.. I was more excited for te lifts but I was really scared too.. WE had to do a trust excercise and I was kind of a chicken....i guess i dont really know why cuz im not always that scared...teehee
So anyways I think everyone should go to swing dancing especially if you are in the 12 o clock class so we dont really all look retareded when we dont know how to dance since thats what we are doin for our jamboree performance....

so i have officially been a slacker on this blogging....sorry!!!
Indianiapolis was amazing if anybody cares..we got 5th in the nation...oh yah baby!
but n-e-ways.. talkin about class....
I listened to some of the listening lists and i thought it was cool how there was a summary or a little blurb about the song and the background..that made it interesting for me
The book has been quite interesting for me..and how the old country singers all kind of knew each other...
For the jamboree I think we really need to get serious about practicing...cuz we dont want to be retarded lookin swing dancers!! but i love the idea of swing dancing... and i know ur not supposed to start the beginning of a sentence with a preposition but o well...

Ramblings

I am sitting my mind supposed to be focused on blogging for FYS but then my attention wanders to my window and i look out and am amzed by seeing the snow flurry sideways to the ground. I am not looking forward to walkin to class today! So I havent blogged for a while and decided I had better get on it!
I really have enjoyed all the performances that I have witnessed in our class. I was really impressed by Michelles Hobo performance. I thought it was really cool that she could use some information from her grandfather's memoirs to add a personal touch. I was also impressed with the ASL performance. I have only been around sign language when I mentored with a speech pathologist so that was really cool for me to see something like that.
The laast time I was on pandora I got attached to Brooks Williams. I like the acoustic guitar. Some of the songs I heard where Chasing the Grove and Baberloo. To me there is someinth soothing listening to guitar music without lyrices. Sometimes I think lyrics can complicate things. But i really like knowing the meaning of lyrics. I usually have to read the lyrics while I am listening to the song to fully appreciate it!
So I guess thats all I have for now!

Random Goodness

So.. for my presentation Jesh and I plan to cook a meal for all you guys... I think it will be amazing.... One of the things that suprises me in the book is that infidelity is such a prevolent subject in the book. Infidelity is mentioned in the songs and referenced in everday life. It kind of blows my mind that they didnt do anything about it. Like when the husbands would go away and then the "other men" would move in. I guess that was just the way of life and nothing could change it. I think it is also crazy how superstitious people are. With the whole mojo thing, I think it seriously ridicolous!!! I dont believe in the whole selling their soul to the devil to get amazing guitar playing skills. Well that is all I have for now