My week as a journey

This week was a little nice. I don’t know how to see my week as a journey. Is like finding adventures in the middle of the things I do everyday. Well, at college it was a normal week. Studying, my classes right now are a lot of chemistry because the biology one is like chemistry! So I am a little bit exhausted about chemistry. And hello Carolyn! This is just starting, so poor me! Last Tuesday was a very rush day. I began with spanish literature and then I went to the DMN building to take my humanities class. I saw it like travel to one country to another in the same day, because first I was learning about Puerto Rico and then in humanities class I move to the Greek period! Is very interesting see my days with that point of view, like I am traveling everyday. And yes it is! After the Greek period I went to the Music Department to take my third class, Jazz workshop. So there I learn how to develop my jazz skills in my instrument the alto saxophone. An also I learn about the most famous musicians that apport really wonderful stuff to jazz genre. So yes! My weeks are like journeys too! 

 

Here is a video from a song named "Älone Together". In the jazz workshop we are practicing this song. I hope you enjoy it!

 

A day as a journey

My last journey was this morning since I came out of my bed until I arrived to college. I had to write about the experiment for today in chemistry lab, so I did it in the car while my mom was driving. I am kinda comfortable doing it at the last time. That is really bad! Anyway, when I arrived to college at 7:50am I decided to sleep 20 minutes until my chemistry lab began at 8:30am, but I didn’t. I remember that in my second trip that was to Disney World in Orlando Florida I cannot sleep but obviously that was because other reasons. I was living a great time with my family in Disney, but right now I am trying to found a journey in my days, something that makes me happy; because journeys like the one I had this morning was not so grateful. I hope I can experience a journey everyday, I don’t know, maybe something that can bring an adventure to my day, because right now all it’s the same. Sometimes I saw movies to escape from reality and try to live other life with other history; and try to dream awake while watching it. I love movies! But I don’t always see them to have a journey. Sometimes is for fun. But wait! I think have fun is a journey too! So maybe laugh and cry while viewing a movie is a experience like a journey. I never before saw it like that! I need more fun in my days to have more grateful journeys; I think is enough with my routine journeys.

My First Journey!

I only have travel two times in my life but the most shocking experience was in year 2007. My first journey was to “Republica Dominicana”. It was a family trip, organized by my aunts. One of my uncles is “dominicano” so he invited us to spend the summer in his family’s house. We were very excited because no one of use has been before in “Republica Dominicana”. What didn’t know was that the neighborhood where my uncle’s family live was a very poor place. People really kind attend us like kings. When we arrived to the house, they have served the dinner in a very large table, and they start to act like servants. I didn’t like this attitude, it shocks me. I was in a very humble place. People there live without potable water and without electricity. Almost everyday my family and I went to the lake near the house to take a shower. The children that live in the neighborhood wait for us to get out of the lake to give us our towels. They still acting like servants. I tried to stop them about acting like that but they told me that wasn’t a big deal. They want us to spend a great time in their home.

Besides this wasn’t a travel of luxuries and wonderful massages in a spa, I really have a great time because I discover another way of seen the world. I was surrounded by people that despite their poverty and the conditions they live, they were happy and enjoy life everyday! It impacts me! That journey was a deep reflexion, and a teaching experience. 

Ps. I will upload photos from my trip soon. :)

Welcome to my blog!

Hi peers! Welcome to my blog! I hope you enjoy my entries and find them interesting! Please dont doubt about comment your opinion and tell me your ideas. My name is Carolyn and I am a student in the University  of Puerto Rico Recinto de Rio Piedras. My major is Interdisciplinarian Studies in Natural Sciences. I want to be a psycician. I am also a musician, I play the alto saxophone since I was 10 years old. It is great part of my life and a talent that I enjoy. My biggest treasures are my family and my bests friends. I am very grateful to God with the life I have and the opportunity to wake up every day to experience a new jouney. Dont be afraid and travel with me here in my blog! We can discover a lot of places, internal and external, here. 

Helping

In chapter 8 of the book "Down on the island" by Jim Cooper, he speech about the confusion that may exist between Puerto Rican students about the meaning of "helping". He says that students help each other on tests for your peers to do well and get a good grade, but they didn't realize that help in that way is also considered cheating.

I think helping is fair, but "helping" when you're taking a test, thats another story. It is not fair to the student who sacrificed himself studying to get a good grade. Many young people today are still acting like this, and of course some adults also. When I was in public school this type of "helping" happened all the time. It was such like a normal thing. I disagree with this behavior but I do not blame the students of that time because they didn't saw such a bad thing in "helping". Right now in college it still happens but not as much as high school, and much less in a faculty like natural sciences, where I am, and where everyone are competing with each other. Certainly here some students know their limits and know when and when not to help, because unfortunately this is a department in which you have to take advantage over others in order to progress. And I know that many students know what that means, inclusive some students didnt help others when they can and is not considered cheating.

I think this behavior of many years before has changed a little, specifically for college students that have whose priority is to be the best, and certainly that makes sense but we must sit and think about it and dont be selfishs and overdo it.