Thanksgiving

Since it was Thanksgiving this past week, I figured I should write about what I'm thankful for. So to start off with, I'm thankful for my family. They support me in everything that I do and they always love me unconditionally. Secondly, I'm thankful for those people that we can be ourselves around, friends. They're always there to have a good time but a good true friend is there to help you out in a time that you need them. Lastly, but most importantly, I'm thankful for my faith. I know that I couldn't make it through the week without it. It's a good feeling knowing that a friend is there or a family member is there for you, but they can't always be there, God can. And I'm thankful for that. So, in all, I'm thankful for everything. Go America for coming up with another holiday that we can use for eating delicious food!  Happy Thanksgiving!!

Vuk and His Country

The other day Vuk did a presentation about Montenegro. I thought it was interesting seeing how he lives back home. He said that they don't really drive cars around in Montenegro, they walk to a lot of places. He also said that they don't have all the fast food restaurants that we have. Since they don't have all those fast food restaurants and since they walk everywhere, they have a very low obesity rate. I think that America should take a few pointers from them because our obesity rate is pretty high. I'm excited to hear Ochanyas presentation and hear about Nigeria. 

En nos clase....

En clase nos somos trabajamos en nuestro projecta. Lo es muy difícil. hay mucho hacer. Estamos trabajando en las encuestas que hemos tomado la semana pasada. Nosotros usemos Excel para hacer gráficos. Okay this is too much work for a simple blog. So basically the jist of the whole dealio up top there is that we are working with the surveys that we took last week. We made some pie charts out of them so that we could see the data better. We're going to get data from the office about tardies and pink slips because of tardies. That data will hopefully allow us to see if people get a lot of tardies because of hallway congestion or not. Then, we can go on from there. Tallie ho!!

Aaron Thomas

On Thursday, Aaron Thomas came to school for a school wide assembly. He talked a lot about his dad, Ed Thomas and what he cared about. The three most important things in life to him are, Faith, Family, and Football. His football team was like his second family. He talked a lot about how he loved where he was from and how he never wanted to forget where he came from. He asked everyone if they planned on staying in the Williamsburg area after they graduate. Only a few people raised their hands. Then, he asked how many people were planning on staying in the state of Iowa after they graduate. A lot more people raised their hands. Then finally he asked how many people were planning on moving to big cities after college, a few people raised their hands. Then he challenged everyone, no matter where they went after college, to not forget where they came from. He also talked about all the former AP players that are in the NFL that came back after the tornado that destroyed the town. They didn't come back to get noticed by the media, they came back because they never forgot where they came from.

Problems Throughout School

Last week we voted on what we think are the most important issues in class. We were put into groups based on what we thought was the biggest problem. My groups problem was that we think that hallways are too crowded. We are using the PDSA process to try and solve this problem. I think this will be a cool thing to do as we can actually see the outcome of the process, unlike when we were at Kinze or when we did the problem at the workshop. So far we have come up with a code of cooperation and our systems analysis. Yesterday we came up with some questions to use for a survey. I'll be excited to get our survey out and get some data back to see what the main source of the problem is. Farewell for now..updates to come shortly.

Guest Speaker Chantal Knepper

The other day in class we had Chantal Knepper as our guest speaker. She talked about how we should be involved with different activities. She told us about some of the activities that she's involved in in college. They're all helping to teach time management skills as well as leadership skills. She helps to lead a lot of the groups that she's in. She told us to get involved in things. When you're applying for a job they're going to want to see that you did things to help you learn skills, not just that you sat in your room and did nothing with your life. They're going to want to see that you were involved in a bunch of different things they'll see that you know how to manage your time and that you can work in situations like that. So get involved in things, don't be a bum!

Whats Goin' Down in Class

So in class we're starting the PDSA tools. I think it'll be good for the rest of the class to learn. There are a lot of useful tools incorporated into this system. It will also be helpful to have more practice using it. I think that it will be nice since me and Dianna already know the system, we can help out people and give imput. I like that we're incorporating school issues as things that we want to solve and fix. It makes it personal since we all spend a good majority of our day there. We'll actually got to do the final parts of the PDSA system since we'll get to see the end result, unlike when we we're at Kinze with our project. I hope this is a good experience for all the other students and for me as well.