CHRISTMAS BREAK

I am pretty excited to go home and not do anything and not have to worry about anything. Finals is next week and I am ready to knock them out and go home and relax and enjoy my holidays with my family and friends. We have about 3 weeks to enjoy ourselves and not have any worries or dilemma's, well hopefully.I am going to have 2 Christmas' like I do every year. My first one is with my family back at home, we wait til everyone wakes up and then we open all of our presents that my parents got for my brother, sister, and me. I usually like to get my family presents but lately I have not had money to buy things for myself so I do not know how I will buy things for my family, but I guess I could make something for them. My second Christmas is with my family on my dad's side in Ohio, there is 20 people that all gather for our other family Christmas. I do not get to see my family that much so when I do it is a time I want to soak in and spend as much time with them as I can. It would be awesome if we ended up having a white Christmas.

Our Group Project is done!!!

We finished our group project last class and it feels awesome to complete it! I think we did pretty good on our project, we had everything that was asked of us and I think we did a good job of convincing them that our show and our organization would be good to show on Lifetime. Although our other group member showed up while we were presenting, I believe that we ended up pulling it out in the end and our methods of persuasion I believe were very good. It feels good to be done with it all and I want to thank my group members Breanna and Joel for helping me to do this project. I learned a lot about sex trafficking in Cambodia and sex trafficking in general. It is a real problem and is one that should be discussed and talked about because something needs to happen to change this, it is something that should not be taken lightly and education is the best way to affect this problem and to make it a better place for victims of this horrible thing everywhere.

Learning styles!

Quiz 1
Auditory 35%
Visual 25%
Tactile 40%

Quiz 2

ACT X REF
11 9 7 5 3 1 1 3 5 7 9 11
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SEN X INT
11 9 7 5 3 1 1 3 5 7 9 11
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VIS X VRB
11 9 7 5 3 1 1 3 5 7 9 11
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SEQ X GLO
11 9 7 5 3 1 1 3 5 7 9 11
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These are the results of my quiz and I am more of a tactile learner. I like to learn by using myself and I use both aspects of visual and auditory, they are about the same. Most of the things I am in the middle of, I do not have a for sure way of learning. Depending on what it is I learn different ways, some things I need to just read and look over while there are other things that I need to just need to listen to and think about.

PROGRESS

We changed our idea a little bit, we are going to come up with a presentation to send to Lifetime about sex trafficking to see if they will make a segment or show about our topic. P.A.S.T. is our name and we are going to try to present a presentation that has pictures, a commercial with a call to change, why they should choose our video, an interview, and any other idea that will help to persuade people to want to make a show about it. Our audience is adults from the age of 30-55 and we hope to raise awareness and tell people about this problem and if they can help out. We have most of the pictures and script done, we just need to put it all together, record our videos and put the finishing touches on the video. We are hoping all of the aspects of the video will last for most of the required time during our presentation.

Progress

11/20/09 2 hours

For the next couple days what I am going to be doing is finding all the information possible on the subject of how women can get into the trade, how much money they make a customer, and how many percent of them are forced and are beaten and any other information about the subject. I also will begin to write a script and make ideas for the video that we want to make telling people about sex trafficking and Cambodia and why it is important to them and why they should pay attention to this subject, and how educating them is the best way to help out. That is what we will focus our video on. I was thinking about making a video like the one on NBC, called "The more you know," they use famous actors to portray the message they are endorsing and I think our subject would be a good one to do. We wrote our proposal and we are working on a time where we can all meet as a group again and figure some more of what our video will have in it and any other methods of presentation we will use.

Good Video

11/20/09 25 min

We found this video and we want our video to be similar to this. It has a lot of good methods of making the viewer sympathize with her and want to help her out because the stories that they tell are terrible and women should not be put through something this terrible.

BALL STATE SPORTS

The other day I went to a womens volleyball game and it was pretty exciting. They won in 3 straight games, they are supposed to be pretty good this year and the victory I saw did not disappoint. I also met my wife that I will marry on Ball State's team. Now I just need to figure out what her name is. The men's basketball team plays tonight against Valporaiso and this is their first game so hopefully they start out with a win. Hopefully they are good this year, but I have not really heard much about them. Also many people I have talked to are very disappointed in our record in football. They go from having an undefeated season to only winning 1 game, they have 2 games left so they hopefully will at least win those 2 games. If only they hadn't lost so many of their weapons then maybe they would be better, but I still stand by my school!