Violin

I thought that it was sad that no one really stopped to listen to the man playing the violin. He was obviously great and after seeing the video and how his body was involved with the music I can not understand why people did not show more interest. I think that I would have stopped unless I was in a big hurry for work, I hate being late to my job. As far as people not stoping because it was classical I think is crazy, I am much more prone to stop for some one playing classical or jazz music because I respect the musical style more than others. I think it is more clear if someone is talented in it or not. This man was so obviously talented! I also love music with out lyrics while doing day to day activities because I feel like it adds something different to it because the music can be interpreted in any way and therefor makes the activity seem a little more interesting and inspiring.

Post Presentation

I think we had a good ppt and good things to say. Although I do not think that I spoke well at all, I think overall we did well. I think we had good use of color theme, pictures, bullets, and a clear idea of what the point of each slide was and what it was supposed to prove. I said um too many times, although I typed out all that I was going to say I still got nervous and froze up. That always happens so its no suppress, but I think it was long enough and that my partner was well spoken!

PIDE CENTER OBSERVATION

Observing at the Pride Center was an odd experience. It was not what I expected in a lot of ways, I figured it would have more than just chairs in the room. For whatever reason I expected it to be more like a study than a chat space. It was nice though, I understand why people find comfort there. All the people were very welcoming. So far I have done the interview and also taken notes in a way that I can understand. I also have made a draft of the paper I will write. After my first visit to the pride center it was so clear that verbal communication is their main technology. Everything else falls much after that!

Communites

I agree that communities provide stability, but I think that it is only because of the people in the institutions, not the institutions themselves. They also provide people with their basic needs in many cases, but it really depends on the community and where you stand within it.

Communities

-Dive Threw People

-People at the gym

Buddhism in my Life

Buddhism is the part of my self that I am going to display. I am going to some how show that Buddhism as a whole reflects the way that I live my life. I am going to split it up into four major categories, meditation, values/morals, karma, and ideas of Buddhism. In the idea of meditation I will show inner peace, zen and nirvana and how they reflect who I am and how I live. With values and morals I am going to display the ones that I fallow most, like not to kill, value all life, and treating people with respect. For karma I think I will just show some examples of how I have seem Karma and for ideas I will show the Buddhists ideas of how everything is changing and the idea of suffering.