Leahy March 1

Leahy was a performance of 5 highly skilled professional musicians, who just so happened to be bothers and sisters. There are more but only 5 could make this Center Stage Series performance. They performed some traditional and recent Irish Trad music. It was amazing to see the skill each person on that stage and how they used it to collaborate and make music together. Sometimes, when you get musicians who are all very good at what they do, you get control problems. But with these guys, their spotlight was when they were jamming out to each and every song in their own unique way. It is true that these 5 relatives were doing a lot of moving and lining up melodies and rhythmic counter melodies, sometimes while dancing, but it wasn't their job... at least not in the traditional sense. We don't usually associate work or our job with fun. Which brings us to that nagging question, What do you want to be when you grow up? Do you be the Doctor who hates their job but drives a different color Beamer to work every day, or do you drive the rusting car to your job that you enjoy more than anything else. It is easy to forget why we are even coming to school, what with parents and family trying to mold us into the model citizen and trying to make a living. I think it is especially important for educators to never forget why they go into to education. Money is obviously not the reason. If you don't love those kids, and have clear goals and standards for your classroom then you might as well work at McDonald's (no offense to anyone who works there). Education is one of the most important part of people's life, not only do you learn valuable information that will affect your future profession, but you learn social skills that will help shape what kind of person you will become. Those performers of Leahy may not be driving the most fancy cars, or living in the most luxurious houses, but they sure do enjoy their job. Which is more important, and is that the best answer for not only yourself, but for the people affected by your job?

BSU Talent Show Feb. 16

I attended the BSU Talent show. It's aim was to bring awareness to what is going on in Darfur. I think this is one of the best ways to bring awareness to something like this. Getting people together to share talent, memories and laughs. A rotation of speakers would go up in between acts and give information about the history, current events, and what can be done about the situation in Darfur. There were so many people there for a Friday night... and I thought it was great that people could come together and be able to talk about issues that are going on in the world. With all our technology and media, I'm really happy to see them utilized concern for the well being of other human beings as a reason to get together. Our society can sometimes seem very anti-social and there is a popular trend to use robots to do what was previously done by other people i.e. Wal-Mart self check out, Arby's has a self order touch screen in some locations. I think the value of interpersonal communication is super important, and can be taught in schools by creating mock situations and making students think outside the box to solve these global problems. This is how the BSU Talent show connected with our social Luther bubble and sociology, and in turn relating to the skill I want to use as a teacher.