My goodness...

There is just so much info for 505! I spent a good couple of hours going through most of the chapters. I don't know if I recall most of the info though... but it seems like the main idea was to express how First Nations people view the world as being interconnected. As for the details.... gah I don't know if I can remember them in time!

Now moving on to the first part of my day: today marked my first volunteering appreciation brunch! I've been volunteering at the PLC for the past 5 years but I never have been to their appreciation event. I've always gone to volunteer instead!

Big mistake!

The brunch had quite the buffet. I went and got myself two helpings of food. =P

That was probably the only positive aspect of my day. Unfortunately I am unable to claim that the rest of my day went well. LoL and SC... first time I lost every single game in a day. I'm just unable to fetch myself a win! =(

And those readings...

My picture for this week's theme:waterfalls. I was unable to find time to visit the waterfall in the NW section of the city. =(

Man, my format is messed =/ Lol oh and don't forget to roll back your clocks an hour for those who observe daylight savings time!

Hot Pot on Bro's Night!

We didn't go out to eat tonight. Instead, we had a scrumptious hot pot at one of our homes.

There was a ton of food to eat! Everything ranging from shrimp, scallops, fish balls, lamb, beef, noodles and vegetables. One of the best parts of the meal was the broth that resulted from all the juices that seeped out of the various meet dishes. It was delicious until we had to fill up the pot with more water.

For the price of a few bottles of Strongbow and grapefruit flavored cooler, it was definitely worth it! I ate so much that I felt as if my stomach would explode!

I just realized...

how difficult it is to type on my mac keyboard with "long" fingernails. And when I say long, I mean just slightly seeable if you were to look at the back of your hands. No more than about two millimeters in other words!

Since it was difficult to type, I went to trim my nails a couple minutes ago. Now I can type my blog with my normally natural curved finger technique (I think I developed this from piano... unless most people type with curved fingers?)

I woke up early morning to finish my 506 presentation jigsaw. I thought I could finish everything in a couple of hours, but unfortunately I was not able to. I left my house at 10:30, which is about 15-30 minutes later than what I usually leave since it takes about 40 minutes for me to get to school, park and walk to class. Also, I forgot to mention that my brother starts school at 11 on Thursdays...

After parking my car, I walked to my classroom as quickly as I could to get working on my jigsaw. I completed my project with about 40 minutes to spare. I wasn't in the mood to think up of a speech so I just sat there thinking about what else I had to do on the weekend.

I ended up regretting not making up some sort of speech for my presentation. I was quite nervous walking up towards the front of the class. I recall bumping into chairs and tables. =( And my impromptu speech was a bit of a gong show. Looking back, there are some stuff I forgot to mention. However, I spoke truly about what I felt and it seemed like it went alright! =)

I have to mention that I didn't expect presentations to be so interesting. We went through 18 people today I believe? And not once was I bored! Everybody had an interesting and creative way to present their topic! There were wordles, a poem, a ad-like-speech based on "I am Canadian", philosophical outlook, Mz Frizzle, epic education journey, demonstrations and so many more!

After 506, I had my first 508 meeting. It was the same like the previous initial practicum meetings. We went over the course outline and what the assignments could possibly look like. Nothing too exciting!

And that's all for today! No picture again... =(

I need to go take some interesting shots from now on with my iPhone!

Happy Belated Hallowe'en (Happy All Saint's Day!)

Wow, I didn't expect to take that much time cutting out my project for 506... At least the major cutting is done! Just to add some pictures and my text and I should be good for 13 hours from now!

My first class was cancelled today so I had time to work on the written portion of the 506 assignment. I managed to make some more edits this morning and get through half of the reading for 503.

Before 505, I went out to grab some food from the food trucks that were visiting UofC today. I forgot the name of the truck my friend and I were at, but I remembered that there was a gas fuelled heater to keep people warm as we all huddled around it. I don't remember the name of what I got, but for $10, it wasn't really worth it. =/ (I hope they used prime beef to make these things...)

As for class today
505: Life on residential schools for some aboriginal people and what they had to go through. =(
501: LGBTQQ discussion

Back to work I go! =P I'm planning to reintroduce a weekly segment starting after November 9th! In other words, after I'm done my course work at the university.

Ethical Reasoning

I woke up at 6:30 this morning due to the loud jarring sound of my alarm clock beside me, but I immediately turned off my alarm and fell back into a deep slumber.

Two hours after, I woke up again, though this time I felt fully rested. After a quick breakfast, I took time to get ready for school. Lo and behold, by the time I finished getting ready... it was already 10:25! (I needed to be at school by 11...)

I got to my 503 meeting 10 minutes late... >_> Good thing it wasn't an interview!


Onto what I learnt for the day

506: Videotaping yourself teach. There are things that I may realize that I'm doing when I shouldn't or maybe even things that I'm doing well that I'm not fully aware of!

503: More ethics... There was a tough situation today where we discuss what you would do if a terminally ill child is dying in your class and s/he has a DNR order (Do not resuscitate). I was really confused on what I would do in this situation. I want to save the child, but the parents and doctor believes that its better if the child is not saved.

Of course, it's ideal if the terminally ill child is home schooled, but in this scenario, that wasn't possible. This particular child is in your classroom and that particular teacher had to deal with the situation. I was so stumped and undecided to listen in on what happened with the real situation... =(

As for today's picture of the day

I was re-watching a Gintama arc yesterday during my lunch break. Such a touching scene during the Four Deva's arc! =;) (teary smile face)

Oh my goodness... Sometimes I am so unmotivated!

I should have done more work today...

I only got about 1/5 of my 506 assignment done. I just couldn't concentrate on homework today.

Which isn't a good sign since there's still quite a number of big assignments due in the following week. I haven't even looked at 507 yet... but I'm not too worried since it's a pass/fail course.

Oh dear me...

Why does the stress of due dates and/or assignments weighing heavily motivate me to work? It should be getting excellent-grades-by-doing-things-ahead-of-time or doing-work-for-the-sake-of-learning, or things like that to motivate me!

I guess it is something that I have to work on...

Now if you don't mind me... I'm off to go play some SC... after playing a couple hours of LoL...

oh dear...

Glad to see some sun!

For the first time this week, I think I was able to see some sunlight poking out from the normal clouds we've been having to date! Due to that, I was finally able to take my picture for today's theme!

Such a nice, laid back Sunday. Got some work done, but also had time to relax and play some SC! =P And its great that they pushed back 503 as well! It reduces the stress level, but I hope I don't end up dragging that assignment too long. =/