Week 5

This week was a little more interesting. Am really starting to love our journalism class. I think that the information Professor Camp is giving us will really help with our turning point stories. To be honest am nervous about doing the turning point stories. Most of my turing points are very personal and some what... dark shall we say? I don't know how I feel about sharing such personal stories, but I guess I will just have to find one that I feel comfortable sharing. But going back to the classes, I can't help but feel the only thing we are learning how do is debate. I think that am not the only one in the class that feels this way as both Lauren Cook and Brinttany Arsenault both commented on this in their blogs.

Though I understand that people can get offended, and it has happened to me more then once in this class, I don't think that we should hold it against one another. We all have different opinions and that okay, we might not agree but we have to accept. I think that the thing that I find more interesting then some ones opinion is how the they came up or formed their opinion. In Religious Studies we looked at a sections of Padan's book, and we learnt about different perspectives and how to look at things from different points of views. I kind of think that this is point that the professors are trying to get us to do with doubt. They want us to let go of our own opinions and look at it at through a non biased way. I've said it before, that I think that when you look at this way, you can see that it is possible that either out come is possible and they are both right. This gives you a chance to look at possibilities rather then set out comes. I think that this is a good way of looking at life. Because in life there are no set out comes, just possibilities.

Fourth Week

This week, we stayed in our three classes again which I like. But I still cant help but feel we are still going around in circles. Everything that we do is just responding to each other. I feel that we, more so I, are not really learning anything. All I learn is that me and every one else, see things in different ways, which I knew from the start. Though this might sound mean and cranky- that is not the point. I feel frustrated because I want to learn and I don't feel like I am. Though reading Doubt and going to occasions help me widen my view and enlighten me I don't feel like am actually gaining knowledge. Perhaps its because this is a different way of learning then in our previous schooling but I just feel that its redundant and over played.

Doubt is actually good play. I thought it was going to be hard to understand and pointless, but it does make you think a lot. I do believe that Father Flynn did molest Donald but I can also see how people can say that they don't think that he did. It's all about your beliefs and how you you interpret things.

Third Week

As we finished our discussion about Rwanda I felt that we could have gone more in-depth about the topic but I understand that we did not have to time, but I think that it would be interesting to talk about and to see how different our worlds are and how we should be proactive and help out others in other countries.

As we split into our 3 different classes, I felt that finally we might be starting learning things in those 3 different courses. Am very excited to do Religious start Religious Studies, but I was kind of disappointed that for our Religion class that we wont be looking a different Religions and will be doing a more general overview of one or two topics, which again I felt was a little disappointing. But all in all I am looking forward to the 3 separate classes and am excited to see what we will be doing.

Second week

This week I found it to be very much the same. I think that we where all still getting a feeling of the class and of each other. But I also felt that by looking at articles I came to find what website worked better then others and that you need to check your information with different sources to make sure you can use it. As we started talking about the Rwanda genocide it almost like a rude awaking. My question was "where did the term Genocide come from?" So I looked up Genocide in google and looked up in wikipedia what it defined as "genocide." As I read what has happened in the past such as a Holocaust, which is the most famous form of genocide, it was like a slap in the face as to how easy are lives actually are. It made me feel guilty for every time I complained that my life was horrible or so hard. I don't think any of use really have an idea of what a hard life is. This also brings on a strong feelings of helplessness that these kind of acts are still going on in our world. I can't understand how some one would willingly do these acts but I guess we are all victims of circumstance.

So I thought this week was still about setting a base for all three class but it began to pick up the pace.