Dragon Boat Festival

         

          When reading over one of the autobiography of the Chinese letters I came across the Dragon Boat Festival. I had never heard of it before so I decided to use it has my research topic.  According to travelchinaguide.com the Dragon Boat Festival happens on the 5^th day of the 5^th month.  This festival has been going on for over 2,000 years. Many legends circulate around the festival such as the chance to build their bodies and dispel diseases, but the most popular legend is the legend of Qu Yuan.

          Qu Yuan supported the decision to fight against the powerful State of Qin. He ended up showing much love to his country by writing great poems that the citizen fell in love with. He has now passed but at every Dragon Boat Festival they have a special moment just for Qu Yuan. Many people come to the festival with boats that are shaped and dressed up like dragons. That’s how the festival got its name. A custom that is shown on this special day is that all kids wear a prefume pouch. It’s said if kids wear them then all the evil is washed away. This day has many special things that happen but I want to give a special thanks to Constabnce for writing about this event in her paper. If she had never brought it up then I would have never of kniwn about it.

Service Learning

Just project was very fun to do. it was a good topic that i was able to research and it kept my attention very well. during the presentation I really had a part of all of the research and pictures. It was a good presention since I was able to do it with Madison and Kaitlyn. If we all three made our own presentation it would have been really borinng becaus eit would be the samething over and over again. here is the link to our presentation if you want to view it.

Global Perspectives

   It was very interesting when we went and visited MSU. I went to three presentations and my favorite one was the film. The film just caught my eye and it was able to keep my focus. I always enjoy hearing and seeing people do good things for others to help them out. The film was able to show me that many people do want to leave their home and come to the United States because it is a better life here. It showed me that people also care about people who come to the United States and us Americans love to help get these families up and on their feet for a few months. I wish I could have been apart of shooting this film because you know it had to have been a great, life changing experience. It was nice to be able to talk with the guy that shot the fil m himself. I know from what i saw and heard that the guy had such a fun time shooting this film that once he gets enugh time and/or money then he would love to shoot another film like the one h has already done.

Refelction over the Chinese letters

I love the experience that I have gotten from these letters.  It has been so great to be able to talk to somebody who is clear across the world. I love how they are so kind and they love talking to me.  I thought it was kind of funny when I went to read all my letters every single one of them had something to say about my relationship with my boyfriend. They all said how there in China they usually aren’t allowed to have boyfriends until college unless they are kept secret from their families. They have to spend a lot of time studying and families there believe that if you have a boyfriend/girlfriend then they will just take away time from studying.  I responded to pretty much all of the emails and I asked them about some every their everyday things and its crazy how different our cultures are. It was great to wake up yesterday and see that two girls responded back to me again. I love being able to talk with other girls around the world. It’s great because I have always wanted a pen pal and the two girls that I keep talking to are all about us being friends. I just want to thank you Ms. James for having this idea and giving us such a great experience.

Readers report

              The Rock Stars Daughter

                     By: Caitlyn Duffy

 I started reading this book awhile ago and just started to read it again. This book is all about a 17 year old girl who loves with her mom and barely ever sees her dad. Her parents got divorced when she was just a young girl. Her mom is a women who loves to throw parties and their huge house and her dad is well a popular rock star that everybody loves. One night she was up in her bedroom while her mom was throwing a party downstairs. The next thing she knew was that there were lots of cops and ambulances around her bourse. She ran downstairs just to find out that her mom had died. She was taken into a shelter home while they tried to find her father. He was on tour around the world and he stopped that to come straight home to his daughter. It was weird for her because she barely even knew who he was. They got to know one another and then he got custody of her and she went on tour with him her dads wife and the wife's daughter. She was nothing like them but she didn't care. She didn't let their differences get In the way and says "maybe having a younger sister wasn't such a bad thing." After that she kept moving forward and kept falling in love with her dads famous attention. So far I love this book and it just keeps getting better and better! 

Proposal

          As we all know children safety has gone downhill. I have thought about what I wanted to write my service project on and I have decided to write about children safety. I care so much about kids that hearing that many aren’t even safe kills me.  I most got excited to share my thoughts about this topic once the whole Hailey Owens thing happened this past week. I know that I am very upset about the subject and I’m not even a mother yet. Knowing that kids aren’t safe in their own neighborhood and that kids can’t even go outside and play on a nice day in this community anymore scares me to death.  After this has happened I have decided to talk about children safety and talk with young kids on what they need to do when I situation like this happens.  I know that my first step in completing and talking to young kids starts with me and my kids at Day Care. I know that I love all these kids and they mean so much to me that I will teach them first because I’m with them the most and it is very important to me that they know what safety tips to use during a situation such as one that has occurred earlier this week.  Over all I hope to teach children about safety tips needed in this community now days.

60 minutes

            I just watched the 60 minutes video that was posted and I will say I was very shocked that a 15 year could figure something out like that. I am so amazed that somebody of such young age can figure something out like that. He has to be very talented and he is very talented to figure it out at 15 years out when grown people can’t even figure out a solution themselves. I think that it helped that his parents were so supported of him and his brother and basically allowing them to do any science project in their home as long as they don’t take down the house.  You never know who will found out such wanted facts. That’s why we should never under estimate somebody because of their age. He was 15 but he was one smart guy that loved science more than anything. I think that it’s great that people are allowing him to go to big events and speak about his experiment and he has even gotten to go to the White House four times. I think with sharing his story it will help in expiring all young kids to never give up on something you are interested in because you never know what you will get out of your talented area.