When the bus moved, I was saying to my youth pastor that this was my first time going to Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, CA! So, then she said(laughing), ”There are rides that are extreme and rides that will make you pee your pants!” We got there a little early, so we had to wait in line because the parking lot wasn’t open yet.
The conversation made me feel silly. I was almost ashamed that something like school work was bringing me down. Something so small I was letting run down my attitude. From that day on I gave everything I did my all. If my grandfather could make it through so much and get this far, then I would never again lose hope or motivation to persevere and push through any obstacle that came to me.
Aside from the class content I learned that I don’t wait for things to happen I went into this telling my group that under no circumstance could I lead this project but I found myself incapable of waiting for things to evolve on their own, I have more of a leader personality than I thought. How did the interpersonal dynamics affect your participation? If there were conflicts, how were they resolved? I am not shy and I was able to communicated with team members well, we had fun most of the time. Unfortunately we did not have a good dynamic with at least 1 team member which cause a quite a bit of delay and frustration, but we were able to side step this for the most part and push on with the objectives.
This might sound like a dream to some, but as a young child, it is a difficult time to understand . When my parents, my siblings, and I knew that we were moving to a new country,I had absolutely no idea what to expect or really think of that idea. All I could really think about was leaving my friends and my home. At that time, I was only a nine year old child; my mind could not really comprehend everything that was expected of me, the whole concept of leaving the small refugee camp that we lived in. Never have traveled past the borders; imagining a place past my little town was beyond me.
Was I? After a certain point being optimistic becomes unrealistic. For example, what kind of positive thinking can a person have falling out of a twelve story building? It is impossible for someone to filter their every thought and conscious in an effort to remain positive at all times. Attempting to keep all thoughts positive in an attempt to avoid being labeled a pessimist evades reality, and ultimately will end in the downfall of the individual in failure.
The scene kind of explains that the Morgan's are going to have a new lifestyle from the one they had before. I chose the scene because if they had never moved to the farm in deer valley Alberta their life might not have change the way it did. They will not have met the amazing people who helped them get a back on their feet. This scene is also my favourite because of the way the author described Shane's emotions when he first saw the house, he though that maybe him and his dad can start over and finally have a future. I also think that the main reason I actually chose this scene was because of how well the author described it, so I had the image in my head the entire time I was reading the book.
The mall was created so people can get caught up in this world of shopping and they lose track of reality. For example, Guterson says, “There are, one notices, no clocks or windows, nothing to distract the shoppers psyche from the alternate reality the mall conjures”. This sort of set up will let the people lose track of time and they would not know how long they have shopped for. This all leads to, more money being spent on the products within
The three of us being together strengthened our relationship I’d been missing for so many years, and the strong bond that we’d shared finally returned. Seeing you with us, hunting, singing and dancing, made me connect with the land in a way I never had before, and gave me hope that you would rediscover your culture. Yes, there were times when I couldn’t stand being around you. Times when I thought you put your Walkman and mobile phone before me and Milika. And at these times I hated you.
I’m happy that this chapter has outlined these precautions for me to follow, I already feel safer with them and I haven’t even really used them yet but I definitely plan to. The chapter also outlined defensive driving which is something that my dad is always telling me. He constantly tells me that he’s not worried for what I will do on the road, but what the drivers around me will do and if I’ll be able to react fast
We'd take our cameras everywhere we went incase we might chance upon a sacred site to perhaps make memories upon. In the shadows and safeties of our trees, we hid and told one another, "its you and me against this world." I remember the time we promised each other to never look in the past to regret, never to the future to fill ourselves with hopes, but to the present. Grasp it like a gift to be taken into our strides. Together we brought happiness into our lives by photography.