I have been so busy with school...I'm sorry I have not posted in a long time. First off, I would like to thank everyone that sent me a birthday card, believe it or not mail is a great gift right up there with quarters and my mom can tell you how much I love quarters. When in college, quarters...well, unless you can go home to clean your clothes, quarters are very useful in keeping your clothes clean. We have to pay $2.00 a load to wash our laundry around here. 1.25 for the washer, .75 for the dryer.(and the machines only accept quarters!)
Anyway, last weekend was wonderful! My brother came all the way from Ky to see me for my birthday. And he only got confused twice! (confused meaning lost) I can tell y'all what happened...He arrived Thursday night about 7:00pm. All we did was empty his car, and I showed him the library.
Friday I woke up and went to my math class at 10:00 I told him to meet me at the library and he would go to my ASL class with me at 11:00am. I found him reading some Dumas books, and after ASL class I checked out those books for him. I don't think he got done with them in time. (I think he was reading the Count of Monte Cristo, but you would have to ask him about that...I maybe his little sister, but I don't know everything he does.)
I went to the Cafe and we have these to-go boxes, I filled one up with enough food for Jonathan and I both, we went to the basement and ate in the Kennel. There I met my friend Erin Mann. She works with costumes in the theatre department. She was planning to go to a fabric store; Mary Jo's in Gastonia, NC. I asked Jonathan what he wanted to do. And we agreed, I would go to the fabric store with Erin, and he would spend time in the library working on a paper for his college class.
Erin and I did not get back to Gardner-Webb until 6:30pm.
I went to dinner as soon as we got back, found Jonathan, and forced him to go to a Deaf Performance Night here at GWU. There were stories, funny ones, ABC stories, all sorts of stuff. We have group called Joyful Hands and they performed a couple songs, which looked wonderful. One of the few things Jonathan seemed to understand...well there is this one interpreter here on campus, she is very skilled. She also leads the Joyful Hands group. Apparently the girls in that group made something to challenge her. A melody of various snips of songs put together, she had to interpret them with no preparation or even knowing which songs they were gonna use, they did this twice, once in the beginning and another time later in the night. They used rap, rock, heavy metal, techno, musical, any type of music that you could think of that has lyrics, they had for her to interpret. It was hilarious when she couldn't tell what was being sung. I was finished at 9:30pm, a group of us went to Denny's afterward. Jonathan refused to go, so I went in a car with some friends. The interesting thing, because there was so many of us, and since all the hearing people did not talk, only signed, the tickets got messed up, and quite a few did not have to pay for their meal. I was one of them. Yeah all I got was a dessert, but still that $5.00 I could use for something else. We got back at 1:00 in the morning.
Saturday I woke up around 10:00ish, called some friends, found my brother and started baking my cake around 12:30ish. My friends, Matt, Chelsea, Stephanie, Amber, and my bro started watching some anime around 1:00pm in Decker lobby. After Amber got to eat some cake, (the cake was chocolate with chocolate icing) she left a few hours later. We only stopped for one hour for dinner, after dinner Stephanie had to leave, she had to play for the band at the basketball game. She is in the marching band/Pep band. After that, it was just me, Jonathan, Matt and Chelsea. We stayed up until 1:00am watching the anime. It was a great weekend!
Well that's all I feel like sharing for right now, hopefully I will find some more time to post more stuff sometime soon.
much love,
Joannis
Friday, February 22, 2008
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Obama 08?
Well I really felt like posting about something we watched in English today. Now I am a republican and with my upbringing I really don't there was any way I was gonna become anything else but that, however Barak Obama concerns me regardless of my party affiliation.
As a young person on a college campus I can say first hand pretty assuredly that quite a few young people support Obama. I see Clinton getting the old school democrat vote with Obama getting the young ones, but not only young democrats, quite a few young republicans that are not as well connected with their party's platform as the older one, seem to have taken in the belief that Bush has done a most detestable job as a president, now I'm not saying he compares to Washington or even Lincoln, but still I feel sometimes that he is getting a bad rap just because he had the gumption to become more agressive in our foreign policy.
Quite a few young republicans seem to be liking Barak Obama a bit much. If he wins the democratic nominee, he very well could be the next president. (I can't believe I said that, but that's my gut feeling, and growing up around politics I feel that I can tell an extremely effective campaign from just an effective one.)
But what I wanted to share was a link to this music video made by some musician guy...he is supporting Obama, obviously, but the interesting thing that caught my eye that I was not expecting...the token "deaf" person. I don't know if the woman is deaf for sure, but she does sign what was being spoken in the song. When we watched it in class I was not expecting it, so I was only focusing on the words of the song, but as soon as I saw her hands move I focused. Yes that part only last for a couple seconds. But it was interesting how they threw that in...kind like "Oh, I think I'll try to get some deaf vote by having some one sign in my music video!" I'm just a little bit cynical of politicians who try to use those types of ploys. And Mom, if you notice Si Se Puede is repeated a few times in the song as well. (I think that's supposed to be Yes We Can in Spanish?)
Well watch it and tell me what you think, and I'm sorry to the deaf people out there the whole song does not have captions of any kind, but there are some graphics through out the video and I guess they get the main idea across...
Here's the link...
As a young person on a college campus I can say first hand pretty assuredly that quite a few young people support Obama. I see Clinton getting the old school democrat vote with Obama getting the young ones, but not only young democrats, quite a few young republicans that are not as well connected with their party's platform as the older one, seem to have taken in the belief that Bush has done a most detestable job as a president, now I'm not saying he compares to Washington or even Lincoln, but still I feel sometimes that he is getting a bad rap just because he had the gumption to become more agressive in our foreign policy.
Quite a few young republicans seem to be liking Barak Obama a bit much. If he wins the democratic nominee, he very well could be the next president. (I can't believe I said that, but that's my gut feeling, and growing up around politics I feel that I can tell an extremely effective campaign from just an effective one.)
But what I wanted to share was a link to this music video made by some musician guy...he is supporting Obama, obviously, but the interesting thing that caught my eye that I was not expecting...the token "deaf" person. I don't know if the woman is deaf for sure, but she does sign what was being spoken in the song. When we watched it in class I was not expecting it, so I was only focusing on the words of the song, but as soon as I saw her hands move I focused. Yes that part only last for a couple seconds. But it was interesting how they threw that in...kind like "Oh, I think I'll try to get some deaf vote by having some one sign in my music video!" I'm just a little bit cynical of politicians who try to use those types of ploys. And Mom, if you notice Si Se Puede is repeated a few times in the song as well. (I think that's supposed to be Yes We Can in Spanish?)
Well watch it and tell me what you think, and I'm sorry to the deaf people out there the whole song does not have captions of any kind, but there are some graphics through out the video and I guess they get the main idea across...
Here's the link...
Woo-Hoo!
So...I am very excited, my brother should be coming to visit me in about a week, the same time as my 19th birthday!
In other news, I have moved to a new dorm, unfortunately my roommate and I had a different sense of humor. So now I live in the dorm called Decker and plus the room I moved into was empty, so I don't have a roommate now! I can be sociable, but sometimes I just like being alone. I don't think it's bad, it's just me.
Because Decker rooms are a lot smaller, I bunked the two beds to give myself more space. The interesting thing was...when I first moved in, my friends and I could not find any of the metal rods that you are supposed to use when bunking the beds together, so what did my friend Marcus do...he took a pencil and broke it in 2, and used those piece to put the bed together. It stayed that way for about a week. Until I told my friend Ezelis about it, Ezelis is a RA and she is a CODA, she put in a order for the physical plant people to come and fix it. So Tuesday afternoon, I go to my room and find three guys working on my bed. I don't know if they could not get the pencil's remains out or what, but there was some drilling that went on in there, I was chilling in my friend's room across the hall. Wednesday the power went out in the whole town of Boiling Springs for almost a hour. So obviously they did not come back until today, but now my bed is back together again, and much safer to boot! :-)
Tonight I went to this bible study we have in my hall, they have in the room that is next door to me, so I don't have very far to walk. we talked about Leah and Rachel, and discuss about how sometimes us women get a bit to wrapped up in our desire to be loved that we are almost willing to do anything to get it. Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah, so Leah had a bunch of baby boys for Jacob in attempts to win his love, Rachel got jealous so gave Jacob her slave, then Leah followed suit and gave him her slave as well...it just kept going back and forth. Our bible study leader Stephanie just said, that as young women we need to remember that not only romantic love, but even friendships with other girls will not always last, only our relationship with God will last through all our years...nice stuff I thought.
well hope you got something interesting out of this post. talk to yall later!
Joannis
In other news, I have moved to a new dorm, unfortunately my roommate and I had a different sense of humor. So now I live in the dorm called Decker and plus the room I moved into was empty, so I don't have a roommate now! I can be sociable, but sometimes I just like being alone. I don't think it's bad, it's just me.
Because Decker rooms are a lot smaller, I bunked the two beds to give myself more space. The interesting thing was...when I first moved in, my friends and I could not find any of the metal rods that you are supposed to use when bunking the beds together, so what did my friend Marcus do...he took a pencil and broke it in 2, and used those piece to put the bed together. It stayed that way for about a week. Until I told my friend Ezelis about it, Ezelis is a RA and she is a CODA, she put in a order for the physical plant people to come and fix it. So Tuesday afternoon, I go to my room and find three guys working on my bed. I don't know if they could not get the pencil's remains out or what, but there was some drilling that went on in there, I was chilling in my friend's room across the hall. Wednesday the power went out in the whole town of Boiling Springs for almost a hour. So obviously they did not come back until today, but now my bed is back together again, and much safer to boot! :-)
Tonight I went to this bible study we have in my hall, they have in the room that is next door to me, so I don't have very far to walk. we talked about Leah and Rachel, and discuss about how sometimes us women get a bit to wrapped up in our desire to be loved that we are almost willing to do anything to get it. Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah, so Leah had a bunch of baby boys for Jacob in attempts to win his love, Rachel got jealous so gave Jacob her slave, then Leah followed suit and gave him her slave as well...it just kept going back and forth. Our bible study leader Stephanie just said, that as young women we need to remember that not only romantic love, but even friendships with other girls will not always last, only our relationship with God will last through all our years...nice stuff I thought.
well hope you got something interesting out of this post. talk to yall later!
Joannis
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