Saturday, April 3, 2010
Mission Letters
By the way, I don't really write on this blog very often right now but when I go on a mission I will have my mom post my letters here. So if you want to read my letters you can follow this blog. Also if you want to see the map of who is guessing and where they are guessing I will keep it updated on here. : )
I'm going on a Mission!!!
My mission papers are in! Make a guess as to where I'm going : ) If you guess a foreign you have to guess a stateside too. But if you guess stateside you are not required to guess a foreign. Once you guess I will update the google map with your guesses. : )
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
little moments
So today I had two wonderful little moments of happiness.
During my class in dramatic literary critisim we were talking about language and the teacher made a joke about how one of the students didn't seem to believe in grammer or anything like that because it certianly didn't show up in his papers. (The class chuckled a bit at this.) The student responded triumphantly, "Language is a construct and I choose freedom!" The entire class fell apart laughing. I'm so happy that I'm not the only geek in the world who understood exactly what theory he was implying and found the humor in it. : )
Later walking home from class I walked past a construction site. As I was passing I heard someone yelling "Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep!" I looked up to see a construction working beeping along to the machine that was raising him up to work on the side of the building with a big grin on his face, just in case his coworker higher up didn't notice him coming. He noticed me watching and waved to me while he continued to beep at his coworker. He made my day.
During my class in dramatic literary critisim we were talking about language and the teacher made a joke about how one of the students didn't seem to believe in grammer or anything like that because it certianly didn't show up in his papers. (The class chuckled a bit at this.) The student responded triumphantly, "Language is a construct and I choose freedom!" The entire class fell apart laughing. I'm so happy that I'm not the only geek in the world who understood exactly what theory he was implying and found the humor in it. : )
Later walking home from class I walked past a construction site. As I was passing I heard someone yelling "Beep, Beep, Beep, Beep!" I looked up to see a construction working beeping along to the machine that was raising him up to work on the side of the building with a big grin on his face, just in case his coworker higher up didn't notice him coming. He noticed me watching and waved to me while he continued to beep at his coworker. He made my day.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
hmmm...dum dum dum
So it has been a really REALLY long time since I've written. I don't think I even remember what I wrote about last. Oh, wait! Oppression? I dunno. Any way. lets see....
I'm really not liking my job at broadcasting job right now. I don't like having to work at night. It's never really effected me negatively before but for some reason this semester my body just isn't bouncing back as quickly as it used to after working the whole night. Its taking me all weekend to get back on track. It's driving me crazy that I'm always tired.
However, I'm loving the rest of life. I really love my roommates. It's so nice to have roommates who believe in the gospel and practice it in their lives. I love the spirit that fills our apartment and the fact that we actually talk to each other and go to church together and I know things about their lives.
I worked concessions this past weekend and that was alot of fun. I've missed all my concessions buddies. I'm the only returning employee on my side of the stadium so that is a little interesting. I basically get to play question answerer/problem solver to the whole side. That's a lot of fun. I like being able to move around. I get to work again this saturday. : )
Yeah, so this is turning out to be a really boring post. I promise my life is slightly exciting. I just don't know what I can say and not feel like I'm compromising my internet saftey. hmmm
oh well. It may also be related to the fact that it is 4:30 am.
I guess I'm not gunna write anymore.
I'm really not liking my job at broadcasting job right now. I don't like having to work at night. It's never really effected me negatively before but for some reason this semester my body just isn't bouncing back as quickly as it used to after working the whole night. Its taking me all weekend to get back on track. It's driving me crazy that I'm always tired.
However, I'm loving the rest of life. I really love my roommates. It's so nice to have roommates who believe in the gospel and practice it in their lives. I love the spirit that fills our apartment and the fact that we actually talk to each other and go to church together and I know things about their lives.
I worked concessions this past weekend and that was alot of fun. I've missed all my concessions buddies. I'm the only returning employee on my side of the stadium so that is a little interesting. I basically get to play question answerer/problem solver to the whole side. That's a lot of fun. I like being able to move around. I get to work again this saturday. : )
Yeah, so this is turning out to be a really boring post. I promise my life is slightly exciting. I just don't know what I can say and not feel like I'm compromising my internet saftey. hmmm
oh well. It may also be related to the fact that it is 4:30 am.
I guess I'm not gunna write anymore.
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Coughing!
I hate coughing. Have I mentioned that lately? I've been coughing pretty much every couple of minutes for the past two days. I haven't been able to sleep because of it and it's driving me crazy! I feel so bad for my roomies. It must really be driving them crazy. I think my body is finaly winding down though. I'm only caughing every 10 min or so now and they are kind of pathetic coughs! YAY!
Oppression
I'm studying theatre of the oppressed in one of my classes and it is really interesting to contemplate oppression in our society and mormon culture in particular. It's especially interesting to view it through anothers eyes, because there are things that I don't consider oppresive that others might and thus I don't feel oppressed by them. So if I don't feel oppressed by something am I still being oppressed. Does oppression hinge on the reaction of the oppressed?
It's easy to say yes to that when its an issue of, the Honor Code, for example. Some people would consider it oppressive. After all it says that I can't go to anothers apartment after midnight, I can't use their restroom, I can't wear certain types of clothing. I'm sure to lots of people this seems very oppressive. To me, however, I don't feel oppressed. It's something that I would choose to do anyway. So am I being oppressed?
However, if you use the example of a woman who grew up in a patriarchaly domineering culture where women have certain responsibilities and certain things they can and cannot do. She is of the personality type where that seems normal and she accepts it. She doesn't feel oppressed by the fact that she can't do certain things, it just seems normal to her. Is she being oppressed? She doesn't feel the need or desire to change her position. If for example she were required to cover her head at all times. This seems normal to her and she would not question but if a guy tried to tell me that I always had to cover my head I would feel oppressed. So is she being oppressed when she is told to cover her head?
I think it is a very interesting concept to consider as we deal with different countries. I think we always need to get to know the people there before we come to any conclusions about treatment and rituals of other cultures and countries.
It's easy to say yes to that when its an issue of, the Honor Code, for example. Some people would consider it oppressive. After all it says that I can't go to anothers apartment after midnight, I can't use their restroom, I can't wear certain types of clothing. I'm sure to lots of people this seems very oppressive. To me, however, I don't feel oppressed. It's something that I would choose to do anyway. So am I being oppressed?
However, if you use the example of a woman who grew up in a patriarchaly domineering culture where women have certain responsibilities and certain things they can and cannot do. She is of the personality type where that seems normal and she accepts it. She doesn't feel oppressed by the fact that she can't do certain things, it just seems normal to her. Is she being oppressed? She doesn't feel the need or desire to change her position. If for example she were required to cover her head at all times. This seems normal to her and she would not question but if a guy tried to tell me that I always had to cover my head I would feel oppressed. So is she being oppressed when she is told to cover her head?
I think it is a very interesting concept to consider as we deal with different countries. I think we always need to get to know the people there before we come to any conclusions about treatment and rituals of other cultures and countries.
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