After making several trips to the CPS Daycare I have definately came to the conclusion that in the future I will be working with children forsure. I love working with them and learning different things from them. With this project I am learning that patience truly is a virtue. I am a babysitter and I have been for around nine years so throughout my life I have learned that with working with children you really have to control your patience. I have also learned that some children do not respond to certain approaches by teachers such as when some one says "no," obviously children like to rebel against what they are supposed to do. It is interesting to learn different ways to which the children do follow the rules such as; just asking them to do something, or if they are not moving fast, race them. So far working in the daycare has just helped my future decisions in life and I hope it continues to do so.

Where Debot Goes.

For my groups service learning project we are setting up an informational poster and possibly some healthy snacks in the HEC. The poster will have a diagram of the human digestive system and also list the functions, common afflictions, and how to keep each of the main organs healthy. We dicided that the HEC is an ideal location because it is a health education environment that gets alot of students going through it. I have contacted the people in charge of the table there and we got the go ahead, we just have to tell them the specific times and dates that we are going to have it set up. My group should be done with the poster by the end of this weekend. Keep an eye out for us next week and stop by to check it out.

Hold your horses!

Theres not too much news about my project, I am still plugging away at making the webpage, I only have one more color specimin to find, and than my picture taking fun is over. There is one new thing that happened which is kinda a disapointment. At St. francis horse rescue, mary (the owner) was talking with the insurance company and now there is a new rule that we can't go into the pasture with the horses unless Mary is home. Well, that puts a good damper on our fun. Since its pretty hard to hang out with them when they are all out on the far end of the pasture. I see the purpose behind it though, they rather us not get hurt and sue them. Understandable.

This weekend I had to come back home for some various things and offered to help out at the farm I volunteer for down here, which is a therapy riding center (for children with disabilities) they needed people to feed the horses this weekend. So waking up near the time I go to bed on the weekends I headed over there to feed. It was nice to see how all the critters were doing. I also found my Black horse, Dimma (which means darkness in icelandic), who is an icelandic pony and is all black with no bleaching Bleaching is a problem that I was having with the horses I was finding, where they are classified as black, but they have lighter spots by their legs, face, and mane from the sun. I also have to learn how to lunge a horse before summer, when I have to ride full time (oh darn) so I tried on this little fat mini horse, Steve, ( his head reaches about my waist) ... who is about the same size around as he is tall. He did not want to humor me! We would run down the pasture ( i would take big walking strides) and then try to lunge, as soon as we got set up for lunging (which is basically having the horse do circles around you while attached by a lead rope..) he started refusing, he would just turn his body enough, and then try to kick me. He is a very bitter little horse, he tried to kick me while I was feeding him earlier. I still have the rest of the weekend to work with him, if all else fails, I can work with one of the more trained larger horses, but wheres the fun in that.

I found it funny that when I was feeding I managed to tell one of the horses to well, hold you horses... I laughed out loud.. and horse just stole the hay while I was being amused by my unintended pun.
It was dumpy weather this morning so no pictures. Will edit the ones in of the critters at the barn here in MN.

Weekly Update

This past week our group met on Tuesday and accomplished quite a bit. We sat down and were able to get a rough outline of the entire animation, along with text/narration ideas, down on paper. We were planning on meeting yesterday but due to some scheduling conflicts that did not pan out. Though from what I have been told by next week Liz was going to have some of the basic backgrounds and figures developed and with our continuous refining of the information things are becoming much more concise and effective.