As I look at the picture of my family I wonder if I made the right choice to leave for a job. I think as I eat my bland chicken with carrot soup and a stale piece of bread. I look out of my window and see an endless void of darkness. Tonight is a night where the ocean misses the stars as the fog rolls in. This makes me think about how I'm not going to see my wife and daughter. I feel lonely on this ship but when I look at this photo I see a glimmer of hope and I feel all warm inside as if I'm back with my wife and daughter. As each day passes I miss them I miss them even more, I wonder if my daughter will forgive me for not being there when she needs me the most. How will my wife support our daughter if I'm not there? I ask the same question "was this the right choice?"
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Jobs are getting harder and harder to find as a father of a son and a husband just putting food on the tale is hard without any money we only get about one meal a day and it's usually only rice. I have to find a new job somewhere with better pay. I got word that there was better paying jobs up north about a day long by train. I started to pack my nice clothes until my son cam in and said " daddy lets play" I took time off packing and started to spend time with my son, he told me to make a crane like I would always do. I took a piece of paper and started to fold the paper making every crease ever so fine. Fold by fold my son watched as I finished the crane. As I gave him the crane he looked at me and said " Daddy are you leaving?" I said "yes I am" I started to walk back to my suit case until he asked " Why are you leaving? I said to him" I need to find a job so we can eat and keep you in school." he paused for a minute and answered " don't worry daddy I don't need to go to school so just stay here with mommy and me."As I walk through the forest I wonder where am I, what am I doing here, and how did I get here?I keep walking along the path of unknown going deeper and deeper into the forest not caring where I'm heading to. Putting one foot in front of the other I keep moving through this peaceful and calm forest. I hear birds chirping in the trees, and see squirrels running around collecting berries and nuts stuffing them into its mouth then scurrying away jumping from tree to tree. Wolves howling in the distant.
This week we had exhibition and it took us a lot of time to prepare for the school wide exhibition. Last week we had all of us had to do a debate and Matt, Nick, and Andrew had to choose the 4 best debates that will be doing a live debate during exhibition. Kobe and I was one of the 4 groups and in my opinion i wasn't to excited on that because last week I was very nervous and I had trouble saying my speech.
At exhibition everything was good all if the class rooms were set up and ready for exhibition. My first shift was in Matt class and it was fun talking to the parents about our project then my next shift was Andrew in Brians class like Matts it was fun. So I saw my schedule say that I was debating at 7 to 7:30 but turns out that it was 6:30 to 7 so i came to the debate 15 minutes late and it was embarrassing but we proceeded the debate. I was doing fine until the rebuttal then I was struggling and it was very embarrassing because I messed up a lot. I think that overall the exhibition was ok but not the best. This week Kobe and I started our speech for the debate so far we pulled some of our writing from the essay we did for the project. We also decided that I would be the first argument and rebuttal while Kobe is the
This week Kobe and I started to work on drafts for our poster we even did gallery walks with our written posters and now we are on the process of creating a new and improved version of our two drafts using the critiques we got from our fellow peers. Since Kobe and I made different poster designs and got critique on both of them we decided to keep making our own design until we have to pick out a final poster design plan.
This week we also started to find a philosophical argument and how it would help our claims. So far we are looking at utilitarian and Kant's Philosophy. So we think the reason why we choose utilitarian was because its pretty much what would benefit the group and since the athletes are causing all these crimes its not helping anything what so ever. Kant's because these athletes has a duty to be role models and to do the right thing rather than something with a motive of inclination. So far it has been a week since we found out who our project partners are for the sporting chance project and I think Kobe and I are really good partners together because we get along and we have been splitting up the work evenly and we have also been splitting up the research evenly. We still are kind of confused with the question and we have been asking Matt how we can narrow down the topic a bit more since the question was still a broad question.
Since this project was also combined with math we had to find a way to incorporate math in our arguments to help support our claims and Nick is helping Kobe and I find a way to do that and one way was with the how the athletes helps out in the community. I was thinking that this would not help us because we were the negative not the positive but I think Nick has an idea or something so Kobe and I research it. This week we finally find out who we have as a partner and what subject we get for the debate. I got Kobe as a partner and the topic we got was " Does athletes contribute to society positively? " At first Kobe and I dislike the question and we still kind of hate the question but it was bearable. It was hard to start the research because it was such a broad question to the point that we could use some of the other debate questions research.
So far Kobe and I found a couple of good websites and we started to create main arguments for the debate and Essay. we started to look at arrest rates for each sport such as the NFL, MLB, FIFA, NASCAR, and etc... This week we refined and practiced our debates we also started to refine our sketched posters kobe and I created a total of 4 drafts and we are going to get feedback from our peers. Kobe and I looked up more information on our topic so that we will get an edge of our debate. Some of the info I looked up is tobacco in sports.
This week we read "US People's History of Sports - Chapter 1 and we had to write a one page reflection on the article and here is the article.Here. We also took home another reading assignment to read this article over the weekend and do a one page reflection. Also Friday this week was the day to respect the fallen in the attack on 9/11.
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