#23 The Last lecture

One thing that I really seemed to understand in the lecture was how short life can be. I know that people can die at any given moment in life, whether it's sickness or a fatal accident. I say life is short so make the best of it, if enjoying life means wearing flip flops then flip flop it up. If enjoying life life means having a cellphone then text it up. If enjoying life means eating junk food, then junk food it up. I also really liked what he said about karma. I think that if i'm good, karma will be good to me even if other people don't return the favour.

A leader you admire

A leader I amire is Ray Belanger who is a handicapped guy I work for. Ray suffers from some kind of cerbal palsy or something, I've never asked him what the condition is so I'm not sure what it's called. Basically he has a hard time walking talking and using his hands. Also his wife claire is in a wheel chair. So since he's moved into his house he's made the house 100% wheelchair accessable without any help. Now I occaisonally spend time getting paid for whatever work he needs me to do.

Craig's story (pg 1-11)

I think younger children should be made more aware of what's going on in the world. That way maybe more kids can be able to start organization's like Craig's and the world could be a better place.

the playing card activity

I had a seven and I was more or less ignored because almost everybody else had kings and aces. I think the game was supposed to show that status isn't usually given fairly to people. In this game it was decided by a shuffle and a draw.

the question game..states, hockey teams, colours etc

It took me a while to figure out what was happening in the game. I think it was to show us discrimination happens whether we know about it or not, because the team leaders never told us what our criteria for discrimination was.

the gender game

I thought it was a bad idea, I would of liked a little more "order" for debating a battle of the sexes. I found out it's more or less immpossible to figure out what the "better" sex was but it went from a debate to a shouting match which isn't right.

positive word poster

Our word was Courage and I Was NOT happy with our poster. Nobody in the group had much artistic talent to speak of and I don't like the idea of losing marks because of it. I took leadership class, not art class. If I had to do it again I would of done a background of some kind because I saw other posters with a background and I thought it was cool.