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Only 2 more days until new year ! yay, to another new beginning/adventures (:

Reference page 311
Drugs are something I don’t do. I don’t smoke. It seems like people do these things when there depress or for fun. To me, I can always find something else to help me when I’m depress and there are also another things I can do for fun that wouldn’t harm my life.

Reference page 313
Everyone has unhealthy habits. My unhealthy habit is that sometimes I take a nap after eating. I know its an unhealthy habit because my food wont be able to digest so ill get fat. Its not that I plan to sleep after eating, but when I’m full I tend to get sleepy.

Chapter 11 – Your Journal

What I learn about money is that we should think before we spend it; make sure it’s worth it. In my opinion, I feel like the harder we work to get the money, the more we’ll learn to appreciate it and not waste it on things not needed. The economy is going down, so don’t spent money like it grows on tree. Cherish the money that we work hard for.

Chapter 11 – Know Yourself

I rank money high in my life. Money is something everyone uses. In order to get money everyone has to work hard to get it. Without money we won’t be able to live. Without money we won’t have a home, no food to eat, and no clothes to wear. By having money it brings us entertainment in life.

Interview

Last week we had our final in class. Professor Dan a senior and a peer mentor to class, so we can give them an interview. He divided the class into two groups, and have each group make up a set of questions so we can ask the senior and the peer mentor. The senior and peer mentor that our class interview was Alison and Amirissa Mina. We had one student from each of the group ask the set of questions while they answered. Not only did they answer the questions, but they told us about their sjsu experience and some advice about school. They also told us how things are changing and were going to face some issues that they didn’t have to face back then. While the interview was going on Professor Dan was recording them on his laptop. This was suppose to be an individual assignment, but during class Professor Dan decided that we can all work together. So he edit the audio in class and showed us how it was done. At the end he said that our assignment was done since we all worked together in class, which I think is awesome because we all got it done, so now we have more time to work on our scholarly paper and study for all the finals for our other classes.

This is the final Mixdown of the class interview with Alison and Amirissa Mina

Chapter 12 - Know Yourself

My Value & MY Career Pursuits

I would like a job where i can work with people i like, going to work happy each and everyday helping people that are needed. I'm majoring in nursing, so ill love to be able the help the patients that are needed.

Chapter 12 - Your Journal

People choose a career that there interested in. Everyone has an interest, so you must find your interest to figure out a career you'll want. Working at a place you love wouldn't be working because its something you love. So people choose a career that they know they can work with for the rest of their lives. A career that they know they have the ability to perceive.

Chapter 10 - Your Journal

Sleep Habits

Everyone has their own sleeping habits. I like to sleep with two pillows and hugging something when I sleep because it makes me feel safe and secure. I usually just sleep hugging my blanket or my carebear that's about half my size, haha. Yes, I do have a hard time sleeping sometimes. I hate it when you're tired but you lay in bed tossing and turning for the longest time ever. I usually have a hard time sleeping when I have sometimes on my mind, or thinking about the next day. And no I dont sleep throughout the night. Sometimes I just wake up in the middle of the night for no reason but sometimes it caused by a dream.

Chapter 10 - Know Yourself

Is Your Lifestyle Good for Your Health ?

- I am doing well in school, mostly true
- I am enjoying myself, not feeling bored or angry, mostly true
- I express my emotions when I want to, mostly true
- I am having fun, mostly true
- I am satisfy with what I accomplished during the day, sometimes
- I am developing my skills and ability, not sure
- I have a sense of freedom and adventures in my life, sometimes
- I feel relax and full of energy, sometimes
- I am able to relax most of the day, sometimes
- I enjoy good night sleep most night, sometimes
- I usually go to bed feeling happy and satisfied about the day , sometimes

After taking all of it, the score told me i need some improvements.

VMA Awards 2009 Parody

Chapter 8 - Your Journal

Cheating is something everyone goes through at least once in their life or probably even more. Yes, I have to admit I cheated before. I remember back then in high school when me and my friends would ask the people who has the class before us to remember the questions on the quiz. Cheating is bad, but it’s sometimes something we have to do to accomplish through life, even though sometimes I do fell really guilty.

Chapter 8: Know yourself

How serious is my Test Anxiety?

I don’t feel physically ill before a test, but ill always feel nervous. And yes, sometimes I do have trouble organizing my times to prepare well for exams. I agree that I could do better if I could ignore how nervous I feel during test. And I also hate it when my mind goes blank when I’m taking a test. And the night before the test I would usually have a difficult time trying to sleep. I start to panic when other students finish their exam while I’m still working on mines.

Written Summaries of script

Our group, Eggrolls, did a parody of the VMA 2009 when Kanye West came up to interrupt Taylor Swift during her winning speech. We started out with someone watching TV. She flipped through the channels and stopped at VMA. That was when Taylor Swift was announced the winner of Best Female Video. Kanye West came up to interrupt her saying Beyonce has the best video of all time. Then we showed a clip of the single ladies dance. It went back to Kanye and then that's when our group came up to Kanye telling him that Eggrolls has the best video of all time.

2nd workshop

Yesterday, we had an in class workshop. Justin went over slides in class telling us how to register classes for spring. He taught us some technique on how to find ge classes and certain classes you need on mysjsu account so make it easier for us. He told us that we should have a list of classes that were going to take for spring so we will be prepare when it's our time to register. He showed us where to go to on our mysjsu account in order to know when our registering date is. He told us that we should be right at the computer and wait till when it starts and apply as soon as possible, and how we should try to get all our ge done first. He also recommend other stuff about classes that i found helpful.

1st Workshop

October 28th, Wednesday last week i attended a workshop with Kathy. First we went into the class and went through a few slides and took notes. We learned about the study of animations, social contract theory, and social contract theorist. The 3 social contract theorist was Thomas Hobbes,John Locke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau. We were having a conversation on weather people or bad or not. Thomas Hobbes believe that people are bad, John Locke believe that people are good, and Jean Jacques Rousseau believes that people are born a blank slate. After the slide we watched a short clip of Family Guy. After the video we split up into groups and answer questions analyzing the clip.

Movie Night

Yesterday I went to the movie night, to watch UP ! (:
I never got to watch it in theaters, so I'm happy that I finally have the chance to, hahaha.
I went with thuy and kathy, it was pretty fun. I LOVE it, the movie is cute. There were a lot of people their watching it too. People were sitting in chairs and on the grass cuddling around with their blankets. My friends and I went to the little store near there and bought some junk food to much on while we watched it. I' m starting to like sjsu school events.

Campus Movie Fest

I had FUN, at the Campus Movie Fest. I thought it was going to be a bit boring but I was wrong. I love the entrance that they made, it was those celebrity walk in red carpet thing, haha. They even have those wall things where you can take pictures. My friends and I ran to it when we were close to it, and took a quick picture. In the show they had 16 clips, and they had a a host talking within each 4 clips. They also had raffling ticket during those times so people can win some prizes. They also threw out shirts, but we sat to far, so it didn't come to us. Within those 16 clips I like a few on them, they were pretty funny ! I love funscare, top of the class, out of the box, and Le Glouton Rouge. I really enjoyed watching these clips. I think I'm going to go to the one next year too when they have it. Thanks to this class event thing, I'm starting to get more involve in sjsu school event which I find pretty fun, so I'll probably go to more later on. Oh and people who went, go online and rewatch them, and vote for the others ! I think they also deserve something too.

Fire on the Mountain

I went to the Fire on the Mountain Event on Thursday. It was pretty fun, they even gave out free food, haha. Me and Kathy had to stand in a long ass line just to get cotton candy because we were craving for it. The even was bigger than I thought it was, I guess its because its kinda like a Homecoming rally at high school. We got to see taiko drum performance which I recorded a little clip. Their were also people performing with fire, which was my favorite part. They also had sjsu cheer leaders, football players, homecoming winners, and a singer at the end. My friends and I had more fun than we expected, haha. Once the show was over we head over to sjsu pool place and played pool and games for awhile, then we went to mcdonalds at the end, cause we got a bit hungry, haha.

Your Journal (page 150 )

I wonder why I always procrastinate, when I know I'm going to suffer the night before.
I wonder what would happen if I didn't go to sjsu.
I wonder why I suck at every sports.
I wonder what life would be if I wasn't the oldest child.
I wonder what its like to have a twin.
I wonder what life if without music.
I wonder why the sky is blue.
I wonder if there's really heaven.
I wonder what life would of be without ice cream.
I wonder what's life is like without internet, phone, electronics.
I wonder where life would take me 10 years from now.
I wonder when I'm going to hit 5 ft.
I wonder when I'm going to get a job.
I wonder what my kids would look like.
I wonder where life would take me.
I wonder why we can't fly.
I wonder in class.
I wonder, why I wonder so much.

Know Yourself (page 147)

Problems is something I dislike. Whenever there's a problem, it's always stuck in my mind whenever I do something. It bother's me if I have a problem I'm dealing with and didn't solve it yet. I usually like to solve my problems as soon as possible. Usually, I'll talk to my friends about it, as ask for advice on what I should do. Having someone their talking to you when you have a problem really helps. So don't keep it inside, talk it out to someone you trust.

Video Project

Yay, finally something fun to look forward too. All my classes has been giving boring homework. Now a video project is given, this seems fun. Remind me of High School, because we has them before. In my group is kathy, ly, and vu. I like my group because I've known them all, so it'll be easier to work together, since I know where they live anyways. Were planning to do something funny(: I'm so excited to start.

Chapter 5

Know Yourself:
My Creative Profile -
* If I was managing a rock group, I'll name it CAREBEARS (:
* If I was planning a 5 year old birthday party, I'll make sure they have those water balloons, water guns, and house jumper.
* Pencil can be use to write with, to play with in class when your bored, & to throw at people to get their attention, haha.
* Making instrument out of content of the junk drawer in my family kitchen ? Well whatever I can find I guess. I'll just use it to bang on something, and make music with that.
* Hmm costume party? I'll wear my butterfly wings (:

Your Journals:
Regret-I regret not looking at the SJSU deadline drop date. I mean I did look at it, but i got it mixed up with the last day to add classes. So now I have a class that I would like to drop, but I'm still waiting on the petition, which bugs me because I won't know if I can drop it to another 3 weeks.
Minding the Store - Not paying full attention to what I'm doing? Yes I tend to do that a lot. Someone can be talking, and I can hear words after words coming out of their mouth, but those words wouldn't get in my head. It's like the words are coming in the one ear and coming out the other.

Chapter 4

Know Yourself:
I realized that I learn better when the teacher uses the topic of the day and relate it to a story. I prefer a funny story because somehow that helps me remember it more. I also learn more from visual stuff. I like it when teacher's uses graph, chart, or any other image that makes things simple for you to remember. I also like it when we do something like an activity or game as a group, after the lecture because it helps me get the topic more, and I can also ask other for helps if I don't get it. It's better getting help from a group, than from one person, because if you don't get it from one person, you can try asking another.

Your Journal:
I'm a visual aid type. My weakness is when the teacher is just teaching from the book and not making it entertaining. The thing about me is that, if you don't get me interested in the topic. Then I'll tend to daydream or space out about something else. & my weakness is also on taking notes. I can't really multitask, when the teacher is putting the notes on for a few minutes, I'll have to rush and take notes while trying to pay attention to him explaining them. I like it when teacher's have their notes on blackboard, so that I can listen to them in class, and review my notes later when I get home.

Chapter 9: Your Journal

I noticed that when people first start out their speech, they would get shy, and tend to move around a lot. Then a few minutes later, they'll more comfortable and speak louder and clear. Once they get more comfortable is when you noticed that there actually looking at the audience. My advice on giving a speech and prepare it before, do not wait till the last minute. It's because when you procrastinate, you don't feel prepare so you'll be nervous to go up. some people need something to hold or something to play with when there giving a speech, so my advice is to have those index card, you can have them to help you remember what to say, and it's something to hold so you can stop.

Chapter 9: Know Yourself

I don't seem to have any writing strengths. writing is one of my worst subjects, explains why I'm in LLD1, haha. I think i need to improve in a lot of things in writing, like my grammars and run on sentences. I also have a lot of fragment in my essays. Basically, i need to improve in a lot of things on my writing. & stop my cliche, when i write my essay.

Bio Poem

Call me Melinda.
I'm short, clumsy, shy, and lazy.
I'm related to my families
I care about my family, friends, and life.
I feel happy, excited, and joyful.
I need food, water, and a job.
I give friendship, smile, and care.
I'm afraid of chuckie, spiders, and darkness.
I would like to see shooting stars every night, snow in sj, and the whole world.
I live in San Jose, Lewis Road.
Vo is my last name.

Chapter 2 & 3

Chapter 2:
Know yourself-
I took the activity and score higer than 70, which means I"m under the good social connection and experience little loneliness. And that is true about me, I do not feel loneliness in life. I always have my friends to be there for me. Whenever I need someone to talk to, I'll just have to call them and they'll be there for me. And when I'm bored, I'll just call them and ask them if they'll want to go out or something.

Your Journal-
I dislike it when I'm in math class and i hear other people say " hey let's find an asian person to partner with for math, they're all nerds when it comes to math ". Number 1 it seems like you're just using them to get a good grade in the group activity. & number 2, if you're asian, it doesn't mean your good in math. Everyone is different, you shouldn't say that because of there race.


Chapter 3:
Know yourself-
I spent too much time on aim, I'm always chatting away or going out even thought I know I still have a lot of homework to do. And I spent too little time on studying, which is bad because when I take my quizes, I get low scores. So, next week I will spent more time studying, and then go out once I'm done.

Your Journals-
I'm always procrastinating when it comes to school stuff. I can never just sit at home in my room and start studying or doing my homework. I always get distracted by things. So I decided that I should start going to MLK to do my work, since it's quiet there so I wouldn't get distracted so easily. And I shouldn't go on aim or on the phone until I get the work done.

Mime Activity

Today, we played a mine game in class. Kathy was my partner. She was the mime, so she started first, and I was the mirror so I had to reflect what she did, but I couldn't help but laugh. Then it was my turn and I started to do all these random hand movements very fast to confuse her,haha. After that Kathy had tell me a story using movements. I had to guess out what she was doing, it was pretty fun and interesting, because now I know that there are other ways to communicate without talking to each other.