Sometimes are you sitting in a tree eating an apple. It’s really tasty. You think you’re all set and that you’re just going to sit there and enjoy a snack for a while. You bite the apple again. And again. Each time you take a slightly bigger bite. You think you’ve got it going on. As the juice drips down your lip, you lift your hand wipe it away with sweet satisfaction. Then, the apple falls. You haven’t even swallowed yet, and now you see it’s going to take some effort to take another bite. You haven’t even seen where gravity has taken your sweet treat. Knowing there is more to devour, you climb down the tree follow the scent trail, and locate the apple. Carrying it back up the tree, you find a new branch to rest it on. More secure this time. You take another bite. You save the rest for later. The adventures of our squirrel friend that we’ve been observing out of the windows of the Pilot room can teach us a little bit about learning. When the apple falls, what do you do? We’ve been busy. Realizing that I haven’t written since mid-October and almost two months later we are here. We’ve had exhibitions, our first major pause for reflection since we got going. Students have identified challenges, dug in, changed course, and ignited curiosities. Evidence of learning from student blogs:I met with Toussaint today and I also have written the first piece for Bleeding Gracefully which is gon be a multimedia project of some form I want it to be a book like thingy honestly. It is so lovely to talk to a poet. there's always something.
Stop capitalizing expression! Art should be everywhere, for everyone. I met with Erin on Tuesday and we talked about my painting I made in the beginning of the year. I am going to write a piece that is a dialogue between the two figures, to extend the meaning.
Friday Night we were invited to go to a traditional Soiree and a university. We wore traditional Moroccan Party dresses called Takchita's. I rented mine just for the night and wore ridiculous 6 inch heels so I could be tall enough for the dress. We danced to a traditional moroccan band for most of the night. The music mostly involved on guy yelling out chants with a group of drummers. The audience would crowd around the man singing and respond to the chants they've probably heard all their lives. We ate around midnight and chatted with the moroccans that were seated with us. It was an exhausting but overall exciting night.
I think this is how I'm going to document my reading from now on, by writing letters to the author, it seemed to have worked for me this time, and hopefully it will keep working.
De todas maneras, cambio la pintura a una manera olvidos de tras de casas en una canal, con las montañas de Franklin y el gigante. Voy a cambiarlo otra vez para incluir algo de esperanza y familia y cultura. La punta es cambie la pintura para ser honesto. Usualmente pinte sin preguntando la mensaje o el razón.
On Sunday, Adam invited me to join the rest of the Americans in cooking a huge meal for a bunch of people. I gladly accepted, and showed up to chickens being slaughtered and onions being sauteed in a huge basin. We mostly watched as the cooks prepared the food, making chicken buryani, a very famous Bengali dish that is basically chicken in rice. There was a park right nearby, so we brought a football and badminton rackets to play with the kids. As soon as we showed up, they all crowded around to join in on the fun. We mostly forgot about the food and just played all morning. It was nice to act as the translator for the rest of the Americans, definitely some good Hindi practice. Overall, a huge success and I made a lot of friends that made me promise to come back.
Automatically I call myself dumb and I have always assumed that I was not good at school, this year I’d say the biggest thing I have learned is that you have to believe in yourself that you can do something before you do it, next you have to practice yes some things come easier for some people and some things come as a challenge.
Lotus Temple is a place of worship for the followers of the Bahá'í faith. This religion teaches the three onenesses. Theses are the oneness of faith, humanity, and god. The basic principle of this religion is that all faiths follow the same teachings just in a different manner. Therefor shouldn't it all just be one faith? We sat in a service at the temple and there was a reading from the Qur'an(Islamic scriptures), the bible(Christian scripture), and the vedas(Hindu scripture).
Although I got a page done in my "astrology for you" book. The page was dedicated to how I interpret Chiron in my birth chart. The Chiron represents the principle of holistic knowledge. My Chiron is in Capricorn. I also printed off some moon poems with Amy and started to read and take notes on those.
I finished my infographic! Then I realized I can't print it unless I have a premium account. So I copied and pasted everything into a different website so now I have two versions. After I finish the book and write the paper I'm going to move on to Australian aboriginals. Hopefully after next week.
I have been collecting many, many note cards on stoicism and the different applications for the ancient school of thought. I have collected notes on the dichotomy and trichotomy of it. I am currently in the early stages of an essay about the implementation of stoicism in combat leadership, as well as other parts of the military.
I read the first chapter of a book called naked statistics, and I thought the analogies the author of the book used were helpful to explain data, even though I have no clue about football so it was making equal sense to me as math does. So we worked on finding the mean mode and median for some youtubers and set a plan for what my first piece of work is going to look like. I now have some work that I can do independently. I have to collect some statistical data for 12 months on one of the youtubers i've chosen. The data will be on subscriber rate and I am going to work on graphing that data with Julie when I meet with her next Tuesday.
What do I do if a story isn't going my way?
More time for music first thing in the morning. More productive work in the gym later in the day. Time to work in school during the day while my brain is awake. Going to begin making a PVC pipe xylophone for the sake of experimental music.
I used my pilot time to continue researching "banji" and other related terms I heard in Paris is Burning, and to catch up on some work for my conventional classes. I found a really great blog post explaining and describing banji, banji realness, and other AAVE terms closely associated. It also gave real life examples, like the way Salt in Pepa dress, especially in the live recording of "Shoop". It also talked about RuPaul, and a song by him called "Back to my Roots" where he literally says "banji" referring to himself. I added a lot to my word chart and definitions. I also came up with a little project idea to do about the concept of banji, I wrote it down in my pilot journal.
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