A Night with Ted Koppel

On Feb. 23 @ 7:30 pm in Pruis Hall there was the speaker Ted Koppel. Ted Koppel is a very famous man in the Journalism World. Ted Koppel was a very interesting man. He was funny and boring at the same time.

Ted started off the night with a pretty funny joke. I loved it! After his brilliant introduction he made it quite clear that this night was not going to be speaking the whole time, because that would be boring, but it was going to be a night about asking some questions to get some answers. I think that was a really good idea to keep the people interested and not fall asleep.

Ted had talked a little bit before he started the questions about money and war. Things that are important today. He explained was a trillion dollars deficit was and how long it take to get to that amount. He also kind of explained the war in Iraq and what is going in on there and telling us that it was a need. Some of what he was saying was confusing but amusing.

Almost all of the question that the people asked I did not understand. That would probably be because I am not a big media fan like over half of the people there. The only thing that I could understand was when he talked about the difference between Fact and Truth. He said what if Obama said that Ted Koppel was a drug dealer. The fact would be that Obama said it but that does not mean it would be the truth. I thought that was a great example. It was clear and to the point.

All in all Ted had kept my interest even though out the whole night even though I did not understand most of what he was saying.I would not mind listening to him talk on Night Line or National Public Radio (NPR).

Reading Aloud

On Monday February 15, in English we all had to do a peer review on our papers. The way that we did peer review was way out of my comfort zone. All I could think was OH...MY...GOODNESS!

We had to read our papers out loud to our partner and they had to tell us what they thought of it. I also was able to ask question about my own paper to get some more feed back. But that didn't go as well that I hoped that it would. But to get back on track with what I as trying to say... I felt like I was going to cry when reading my paper out loud. I stutter really bad when I read aloud to other people that is not my mom. I can talk out loud about things like a speech but when it comes to me having to read something weather it is a book or a paper that I wrote, I would rather die! Metaphorically speaking.

The only good thing that happened in that class was, while I was reading out loud to my partner our teacher played some really good music. That helped drown out from hearing other. I was really happy that no one else could hear me but the one person that I HAD to read it to.

I really hope that we never have to do that again. I am one of those people that like to doing thing on their own. I love to read on my own but I just simply have a problem when it comes to reading out loud to others. AHHHH!!!!

Art Reach

Starting in the summer of 2008 an art program was started call the Art Reach Program. The seniors of 2008 and the art teachers are that ones that started the program. I was one of those seniors. It was made to be like a summer school program so the students can get a credit for it.


The first project was a mural downtown Elkhart on the Elkhart Chamber Plaza. The mural is of an over all history of Elkhart from that tribes that use to be there to the children of today. The picture at the top left of this blog is a picture of the mural. This is that image that I am using for project 2 in my English for community values. I feel that this is the perfect image to show community values.


This is the second mural that was done in the summer of 2009. This is a copy of a photo of what Elkhart used to look like way back when. This painting is still on the history of Elkhart but more specific to what it use to look like back in the day. I believe that this mural looks much better then the first one done in 2008. I say this because we knew how to do it now so it came out better. I plan on adding this mural on to my paper later on in the year.

Project 1 (Multiculturism)

Being a new student in this class is hard because I do not know what to expect and I do not know how I am suppose to do things. Everything is so different, from my precious class, that it is extremely difficult to try to change how I write to the new criteria.

The past two weeks we had to work on "Project One". This project was over multiculturalism. Can you say boring! This project was very difficult to do. It took me a while to figure out how to write this paper from start to finish. Then when it came to the revision part of the paper I wanted to scream! I was so confused on what to do and how to change things without having to do drastic changes. But I finally sat down read it over and over till I figured it out.

I really hope that my paper turns out satisfactory enough to get at least a "B". I have never really done well in English. I always try my hardest to do the best that I can in the class but it is stressfuly hard. Well Project One is over with now and on to the next stressful one. WISH ME LUCK!