Week 15 Famous Last Words

Wow, I cannot believe that this is the last full week of class. Usually around this time I am very overwhelmed with the stress of finals and all that but I have been blessed and God has really taken control on my progress in every class and I am not freaking out about the two finals that I do have next week. I am in good standing in both of the classes and I hope that I end in that same way. I thought that this week we would end with perhaps doing one last reading but we did not. Instead we looked at the class as a whole and I really enjoyed that, as I was able to go back and look at my progress in the whole class. I will now finish this class with the grade that I wanted and I am so glad that I can say that! I won’t lie that I was a little scared last week thinking that maybe I had put my self in a very risky situation and I would miss and A by a few points due to my not completing assignments due to my horrible horrible schedule of life and of course lovely procrastination. However, I was determined and now I am over that 410 mark. Yay!! As I had mentioned on my evaluations this is a great class and I am so glad that I decided to stick with it even know I knew a couple of people that had dropped the class. They made me feel skeptical but now when they have asked me about it they are a little jealous that they did leave because this really is a great class! I love having the control of what I do and that is exactly what this class allowed me to do. It was great! I am happy and content with the way this semester is coming to an end.

This is exactly what I am feeling 

Image taken from :memegenerator.net

Week 15 Tech Tip

Youtube

I used to love YouTube until I met Spotify. My number one use for YouTube used to be listening to music however I didn't really like when it used it on my phone because if I got out of the app then it would stop playing the video that I was looking at. However, YouTube is still used a lot on my phone and on my laptop for my daughter. She has a lot of playlists of her favorite videos. I do not have any for myself... well that was until now. I have created a playlist with my current three favorite worship songs to listen to while I study. 

TADA! 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxFDZKYcyAgQrUh5uWXhCQa5eqpVuuHDL

I hope that you enjoy them if you listen to it. 

Week 15 Review

Review

My favorite anncouncment this week was the following : 

Image screenshot taken by self 

I found this announcement at the following : http://ouclassannouncements.blogspot.com/search/label/current

It is week 15 and I am so close to being done with this semester that I can hardly wait!

Week 15 Growth Mindset

Growth Mindset 

This semester the hardest class that I encountered was cellular biology. From the first week until our last test I was really struggling with this class. I lost all hopes to make an A in the class by the second exam. Soon after I also started losing hope in the class, period. I thought that I was going to fail. This week however, after going through four really hard exams I have decided not to take the final. I decided this because this week I learned to accept my achievements no matter how small they can be. I am not finishing the class with the grade that I had wished for. However, I did not fail the class and will be able to move on from the class and never have to look back. That was my growth mindset of the week. Accepting my victories even if it wasn't the exact victory that I wanted.

Image taken from : Growthmindsetmemesblog 

Reading

My Favorite 

This semester has been great and I think that choosing my favorite units will be fairly easy. 

The following are my favorite in order: 

1) Biblical units

2) Rhymes 

3) Dante's Inferno 

I think that our reading choices this semester were great and I loved the idea of splitting the reading into two so that it would not be so overwhelming. If I could start again I would tell myself to not start the readings so late so I could enjoy them more rather than rush through them. Also I would tell myself to do them so that I would not miss storytelling. 

Reflections

Reflections

I must say that this has been a very interesting and fun class. I really did not come into this class with any expectations because none of my friends had taken it before. Now every time someone asks me about an upper division class this is the class that I highly recommend. I really enjoy how the grade that you get in the class really is the grade that you have worked for. Unfortunately, I did not learn (even after multiple opportunities to learn) that I could work ahead and turn in my assignments on time so that I would not have to find myself doing work for this class during dead week. I have a friend who finished this class about a month ago. Man am I jealous! But he deserved it since he put in so much work into the class and now I am paying the consequences of my choices. 

However, with the negative already out there... I am proud of the work that I have done in this class. I would say that I am not a really great writer in the sense that I make a lot of grammatical errors but I think that I do have a good flow to my words. This class really helped me expand my logic and imagination. Every week we were presented with new material and I really like that I had so much liberty to choose what it is that I wanted to read each week. I have never been a part of a class that has really let the student choose the way that they want to learn. For that I am very grateful because it made a class that has the potential of being extremely boring to being a class that was really fun!

I think that the biggest take away from this class that I will take is definitely Growth Mindset. Growth Mindset has really helped me stand my ground and keep pushing through. I am glad that I decided to enroll in this class and that I kept with it. 

Week 14 : Growth Mindset

Growth Mindset 

With finals around the corner I must remind myself to just keep pushing. I think this meme was exactly what I was thinking. 

Image taken from: Untextbook

Week 14: Storytelling

The Second Circle 

My name is Dante. It is now the third day of my journey with my guide. Every minute and second that passes I am afraid of what we will encounter. There are spirits that do not understand how or why I am allowed into the Inferno and they question my guide all the time. However, it is a higher power that has allowed my entry. There is so much to learn here and the more than I learn, the more I pray for my own soul. Today we left the first circle and ascended into the second circle. I asked my guide why the souls in this circle where there. His answer was very simple the sinners that took part of this circle where their because of their flesh, their carnal sins. Their sins varied from vanity and luxury to lust and adultery. 

I had no idea that I would see many people that I had heard about in my childhood in this place. Can you believe that Cleopatra was in the second circle?! I was so shocked too. After my guide had named the ancient knights and women I felt sad and I felt bad for them. I thought they were good people and I couldn't imagine the hell (literally), that they were going through. My guide could tell that I was upset so he grabbed my arm and navigated me through the second circle so that I could gather myself up.

As we were walking I noticed some souls that were near to me. I am they were very very close and I did not understand why they were so close to us. I asked my guide and told me that they were close because they had souls that went together. Love was the reason that they were there. It was in the midst of these souls that I met Paolo and Francesca but I spoke to Francesca the most. She told me how her destiny was changed when it all started with a kiss. Can you imagine that? Her husband killed her after he found out about her affair with Paolo. I can imagine she regrets it as it was only a moment of weakness but since their souls are together I can only assume she really did love him.

All I know after visiting this second circle is that I will now watch my back and make sure that love and any other carnal feeling will not lead me to this circle. I am frightened and I never want to send my eternal days there.

The second circle 

Image taken from Untextbook : Wikipedia commons 

Author's Note : 

I used the story Dante's Inferno : Paolo and Francesa to inspire my story this week. I really enjoyed this section of the reading that I did not really change any of the plot. The only thing that I did to make this story my own is that I made the story as if it were Dante telling the story in his own words or in a diary. I felt like this way it would be easier for the reader to know what was going on and more about Dante's feelings as he was navigating the second circle. 

Reading Diary A: Dante's Inferno

Dante's Inferno 

Limbo: 

• the demons of the inferno would change colors when they were tired and weary
• they would also speak blasphemies against God and all those that followed God 
• they all were tired but they went to the shore where all those that do not follow God meet 
• the reason that they meet at this shore is so that good spirits cannot pass
• When Dante went into the heathens he said that is was very dark and very deep and clouded 
• in the first circle of the abyss there was no sound other than the tremble of the earth that was made by the sorrows of the men and the women 
• these people where there not because they had sinned but because they were living beings and their life had value 
• they were in the heathens because they did not value that worth of life since they were not baptized and that alone was enough for them to be damned 
• by doing so they did not follow God and Christianity correctly 
• when Dante was told this he was sad because he was certain that he knew good people that were not baptized that were probably in this situation
• in the end Dante finds out that no human was saved before the time of Adam
• Jesus saved Adam and all those that came after him after he came into the Limbo and saved their souls

Circle 1 of the Limbo 

Image found from Google Search : poetryintranslation

Week 13 Review

Review

This blog assignment was very informative to me as I did not that you could backup account such as Blogger and Google Sites. That was a very helpful tool and I am glad that I now know how to do that. As I was looking through the announcements it was very hard not to laugh and immediately choose the Dante's Inferno announcement as my favorite. Those actions in the pictures are something that I can definitely relate to. 

A screenshot that I took of my favorite announcement 

Week 13 : Famous Last Words

Famous Last Words

Wow, it is the end of Week 13! I feel really excited yet overwhelmed that this semester is almost over. I have had an overall great semester but there are two classes that I am afraid I might not get the grade that I was wishing for. In one of the classes (cell bio) I will be glad that I pass that class even if that means a C although I really want a B but that class is SO HARD. I have been sick in the past weeks and I have missed quite a bit of class time in my Spanish class so I am afraid that participation points might inhibit the possibility of getting an A. I hope that this is not the case and I will be speaking to my professor this week. In this class however, I am on track to get the grade that I wish (along with my other 2 classes) so I am feeling a good about a solid end to this semester. As the end of this course approaches I really want to focus on spending more time with my reading unit this week and analyzing the stories carefully. Sometimes when I am reading in order to choose my favorite to do my blog post I find myself dozing off so that is something that I want to change.

            Week 13 storytelling went really great for me, as I had already done the assignment many weeks ago on accident. At the time I was a little frustrated that I had made that mistake but when week 13 rolled by this week and I didn’t have to worry about writing a story I was grateful for my mistake. The only things that I needed to do for that post this week was change the week and the date and update my declaration. It is too bad that I did not make the same mistake more than once, haha.

Sound of music Meme 

Image found from Google search : Memegenerator 

Google Timer Tech Tip

Google Timer 

With finals and dead week just around the corner it is very important that I stay productive and on schedule. I have this really bad habit of surfing the internet and using my phone or even staring blackly into my screen when I am not at all interested in the subject that I am suppose to be studying (it happens SOOO much with cellular biology). I am glad that I have found this time that way I can make sure that once my time is up I really have to get focused. I think that I found this tool just in time! 

a screenshot of google timer taken by me 

Storytelling Week 13: The exchange

The Exchange

There once was a father who had three beautiful daughters. They were the most beautiful of the town. His daughters were his most prized possession and he would take really good care of them until he faced financial problems. The father had a problem that he kept away from his family. He was very addicted to gambling and he had recently lost a lot of money and his bills were starting to stack up. He didn't want his family to find out about his problems and he needed to relieve some stress, he decided that he would go hunting. 

While we went hunting, he became distracted due to his obsessive thoughts about all of his debt. Without his knowing, he had taken the wrong path and when he looked around he had no idea where he was. He tried to find his way back but it was of no use. He was absolutely lost and he had no solution. He starting screaming, "HELP, HELP, HELP ME". Suddenly, a bear hunter came out of the woods and walked towards the father. "How can I help you"?, he said. "I am lost and I do not know how to get back. Could you please help me out?" The hunter replied, "This is my land and I only help out those who can give me something in return. What can you offer me?" The father knew that he had no money so he could not offer that to the hunter but he did have a beautiful house and without thinking about it twice he said, "I will give you my house. I have nothing more to give you". The hunter then smirked and said, "Oh but you do have something that you can give me... You have the most beautiful daughters in town. I will give you money so you can get back on your feet. In return for my help and money I will get to choose with daughter of yours I want to marry." The father was relieved and he never knew that his daughters could save him from such trouble. He was money hungry and because he would get money in return he decided his daughter for money was a fair trade. 

The eldest daughter and the hunter were married and the father was content. Years passed and his money was scarce and he decided it was time to go back into the woods...

The bear hunter

Image taken from : Hunting Washington 

Author's Note: 

I took this story from The Bear, the Eagle, and the Fish  from the Czech Unit. I decided to this story but it was very interesting to me how this father traded his daughters off for some money in return. I decided to make this story a little less mythical by using a bear hunter instead of a bear approaching the father. I also added some dialogue so that the reader could have some in depth knowledge of the conversation going on with the father. The original story went on with the trade of the two other daughters however I wanted to add suspense by ending my story with the father going back into the woods. 

Growth Mindset Week 13

Growth Mindset

Meme found in MemeBlog 

I really love this meme! I hear very often that the best things in life are the ones that you worked the hardest for. This makes me think a lot of my family. My family wasn't very acceptive of my relationship with my husband for various reasons but I fought and worked hard for what I wanted. It was really hard to have my dad turn his back on me for awhile but now I see how far we have come and I do not regret it at all because it was all worth it. The same thing with college. I am always complaining about how hard it is but even if I did have the choice to go back in time I would still come to college because I know that in the end it will be worth it.

Reading Diary B: Russian Folktale

Russian Folktale 

The Fox-Physician : 

• there was an old man and an old woman that both grew cabbages 
• the man grew his cabbage in the cellar and the woman in an ash-hole
• the cabbage in the cellar grew up to the floor but the cabbage from the ash-hole withered and did not grow 
• the cabbage stalk grew to be very tall and the old and he would climb it and when he would get to the top he would see a mill and when the mill is done turning there is a pie with a stewed grain that would come out on top
• after the old man would see this he would slide down the stalk and tell the old lady about the mill and the pie 
• he wanted to take the old lady with him so he told her to slip into a sack and he would take her up 
• they were going up and the old man was holding the woman in the sack by his teeth but as he was going up he accidentally let the sack slip and it fell 
• when he went down to look at the sack all he could find within in was very tiny bones and he began to cry 
• that was when the fox came in and he asked the old man why he was crying and the man told him about the old lady 
• the fox gave him a recipe of how he could fix the old lady but the fox told him not to look into the sack
• the old man became impatient and would ask the fox how it was going 
• the fox would say that it is coming along at the end the fox told the man to open the door but he fox ran out immediately 
• when the old man looked around he did not see the old lady all he was were her bones cleaned up and the recipe eaten up 
• he was left all alone and poor 

the old man carrying the old woman 

Image found: Pinterest 

Reading Diary A : Russian Folktales

Russian Folktales 

The Bad Wife : 

• the wife was in bad terms with his husband and she would never pay attention to him
• she would di the opposite of everything that he asked her to do 
• she would never cook for him and one that he asked for pancakes she called him a thief and said that he did not deserve the pancakes 
• if he ever said to not make him food because he did not deserve it she would cook in an exaggerated manner and make him eat all the food 
• one day the husband was tired and he went to the woods to cool off and he found a pit under a berry bush and he thought to him self that he could trick his wife to go into the bottomless pit 
• one day he went to her and told her not to go to the woods and not go near the berry bush and she did exactly what he thought she would
• she went to the woods and approached the berry bush and then fell into the bottomless pit 
• the husband was pleased and thought that he had gotten rid of his bad wife 
• one day he went back and he saw a little demon warning him about this bad wife that had caused problems in the pit
• the demon asked the husband to free him and take him into the world as he no longer wanted to be around the bad wife
• the husband obeyed and then the demon said that they would go and set people free 
• the demon would go and haunt innocent people and the he would set him "free" so people thought that he was an amazing doctor so they would pay him large amounts of money 
• one day they were going on a last mission and the man (husband) was not following the cues and the demon asked him what he was doing 
• the man then began exclaiming "the bad wife is coming" the demon was scared and he asked where he could seek refuge 
• the husband told him to go back to the pit as the bad wife would not go there again 
• however the wife had never left and when the demon went back the wife was there too 
• the father of the last girl of their last mission was pleased with the husband for "curing" his daughter so he gave me riches and half of his properties and his daughter to wed 
• and the bad wife remained in the pit forever \\

A woman yelling at a man 

Image found from Google search :Themoderman 

Week 12 : Famous Last words

Famous last words

This week has been a really laid back week in the sense that I finally did not have any exams or quizzes that I needed to study for. I got my exam back for my cell biology class (which is the class that I am struggling in this semester) and I finally did so much better! Yay! 

I am finally over the flu, which was something that really affected my work, school, and family time. I missed school for about two weeks straight and I am talking to my professors so I can catch up on the work and lectures that I missed. I still think that there is something else that is wrong with me because I cannot stop coughing and they affect my sleep. I am thinking about going to the doctor soon and checking if I have bronchitis or something to that effect that was the result of the flu. I am happy that I am feeling better though. The flu was horrible.

This week, in this class I have done so much better! I actually completed a full week without missing an assignment and that is the first time! I usually miss out from doing the extra reading but this week I made sure that I did not miss it as those small points can accumulate. I also enjoyed my storytelling this week. Merlin is a story that I was proud of because the round table was a story that I grew up reading about. I don’t think it has been my best story yet but I was proud of it.

I am especially proud of the way that my storybook is turning out. This week I wrote about El Cucuy and I loved the way that it turned out. I have received good commentary about it too. I was not sure how I was going to tell this story but once I figured it out. It really worked out. I am excited for the rest of this week.

My storybook. 

Image taken by screenshot.