Thursday, March 24, 2011


noahs' late paragraph:


Team Building Writing Prompt

    Over this unit of guidance, we have learned about group skills and how they are important. To do this, we did certain group activities to help us learn about these group skills. These activities were involving some of the Be a STAR elements (Trust, Belonging, Accept Responsibility) but they also included Patience, Communicating, and stuff like that. In these activities we had to do stuff like building stuff as a team, drawing stuff, solving puzzles, etc. These activities made group work much easier for all of us. Here is what I learned:

    In these activities I have learned a lot but I can only fit three of these things into my paragraph so I’m just going to make it short. One that I learned a lot from was straw tower. I’ve learned to be patient and trusting when others try to do their own. In the exercise “One Handed”, I’ve learned that communicating is very important while working with a group.The last example I will be using in this paragraph is the Traffic Jam. The major learning I got from that activity is CONCENTRATION. The main reason I got that written down is because for that, somehow, all of my friends got into that group and it was really hard to concentrate. Anyways, these learning will help me in future group activities.
   
    I have learned a lot about my self that I didn’t know before. The big thing that I’ve learned about my self is that I actually DO work well with groups and I have really underestimated my self. I have either learned a lot about group work and these activities have helped me. OR I have found a part of me that I have never seen before. Either way, I’m better at group work and I have learned a lot from these activities.

Monday, March 7, 2011

only the strong


song #1 : armed with a machine gun and a copy of the emancipation proclamation, tommy dresses up as abe lincoln, saddles up his grizzly bear, and emerges from his cabin in the woods, rising into the city to meet his destiny...

music to follow....



only the strong

there ain't a lot to believing
one song and only the strong will survive
down a notch from deceiving
one song and only the strong
worse can't get much better
come along, cuz only the strong will...
ride on till your tired
as a dog, and only the strong

dead and down on the pavement
with a song bout only the strong
can the afterlife contain it
right or wrong, only the strong
wise men talk forever
then they're gone...with the weak and the strong
mountain clouds and weather
and fog...when only the strong will survive

there are your prayers, you can keep them
so long....only the strong
and fine dreams in the deep end
fight on, girl, cuz only the strong
money lies beneath us
the sea is calm when only the strong...
money cannot keep us
from our call...and only the strong will survive...

Thursday, March 3, 2011

bolton valley






great trip into the backwoods of bolton valley this weekend....all alone...but it was worth it.....freezing....had to put wood on the fire like every hour or so, read jefferson biog (ellis, american sphinx) and "tinkers"

tweaked the mcl....might have done some real damage.


thougts: i was thinking of using this blog to record my thoughts....i paused for a few minutes and realized that i don't have any thoughts worth committing to paper (well, virtual paper).

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Thursday, February 10, 2011


in san jose...busy with work - turns out SAP ATP open here this week. who knew?

sampras vs. monfils on monday night
del poltro and querry (lost to lacko) on tuesday night