..... Pirates.

So, what an interesting week, I’ve seen that there’s a great deal of turbulence in our class. Some people are frustrated, some don’t care about pirates and some just don’t seem to like the format of the class. I’m not going to lie I find it sometimes uncomfortable having no idea where I stand in this class, yet I in no way dislike the course. The main thing I learnt this week is that I have way more patience than I thought... This class is definitely testing me in a various numbers of ways. I’m learning a lot about women pirates and their places on the ships. I’m excited to work and continue on with this topic.

I am however sooooo done with being sick !!!

Pirates ...

So, due to this wonderful cold that seems to have hit most of STU students, I once again missed a whole full day of Aquinas. I’m really starting to get frustrated with this, one second I feel like I’m better again, then the next I feel absolutely horrible, like indescribably ill. However in the one day that I did make it to class we learned how to post things on our f drive, which is our site. Although it was a fairly easy process once I figured it out, I am sooo fed up with everything being done online, like what did people do before computers, whatever happen to the old fashion ways of passing things in on paper ?! Don’t get me wrong I love computers and all the resources they give us but I am more than fed with the amount I am required to use this stupid thing. I mean in every single one of courses I have at least 3 web sites that I use regularly.

So, now that I’m done ranting about computers I can dig in a bit deeper into what I learnt. I guess the thing I learnt the most this week was how to do further my research and how to really dig deep. It is not a easy process and is often frustrating but after doing it once I feel that I will probably do it again. Like Brittany said “I guess to sum the week up it consisted of researching and class discussions, and obviously group formations.” I am relieved that we are back in a group setting, love it ( :

Being sick sucks,

So, I was disgustingly sick this week so I only made it to one class. I was however excited to find that we were all going to be meeting as a whole again, rather than in the three separate disciplines. I am interested to see what I will learn about pirates. All though I have fallen behind due to being sick, I am in the process of doing all the things I missed just for the sake of knowing what’s going on.

I also really enjoyed writing my midterm paper; it was really interesting for me to revisit all the things that I have learnt so far this term in Aquinas. I am beginning to be challenged with all the work to be done but I’m embracing the change.

What a good week : )

Wow, I learnt a lot this week in all the courses.

For starters in English I learnt have a much greater tolerance for Doubt then I had given myself credit for, I had been to the point where I was begging for no more Doubt. But, then Thom had brought up a point that we are so used to a life were everything is changing all the time, we never spend time on anything, this made me think and I realised he was right. In public high schools we move on to something within a matter of days, our location and scenery is forever changing. The life’s we live are so fast paste that we are not accustomed to spending any amount of time on the same thing. With this new thinking I went in to watching the movie that maybe I could still take something new from the movie, and I did. Prior to watching the movie I was convinced that Father Flynn was guilty after watching the movie, I am no longer sure that is my belief.

I guess I just really learnt the affect that society has on every aspect of our lives, I never imagined that my short attention span was actually normal and was something I learnt from society.

This week in Religious Studies, I learnt so many I interesting things about the Tibetan Book of the Dead and how the Buddhist religion works. One of the things I found the most interesting was the fact that Buddhists do not actually want to be reincarnated they want to reach enlightenment. This was interesting to me because all along I had thought that the main want of a Buddhist was to receive a human birth, but now I understand that that is only the desired re-birth, as it is the only life in which one can reach enlightenment. It was confusing to me at first but now that I understand this I am extremely interested in the Buddhist religion.

I would also just like to add that I am enjoying hearing the stories in Journalism; I think it’s really cool how people opened up and told very real and personal experiences. I can’t wait to hear the rest of them!!

Ps- Thanks Thom for the candy ( :