Corporate Extremity

I almost feel relived to finish this L&D phase. I have claimed this week to be a successful one. Just one week until completion of L&D. This means to the bottom of the food change again. On a more serious note I feel ready to move on. I’m looking forward to growing more than I have grown during my time at the YearUp campus. Learning many lessons by making mistakes and receiving germane professional knowledge from my instructors, has allowed me to feel more accomplished in my life. I am now better prepared to take on anything, any day and anywhere. This doesn’t mean that I am entering into this internship without having anxiety.

After this internship I plan on becoming a full time student. I am more focus on my education more than I have been in 2 years. I have the passion to make a unifying difference in this country, but this world needs doers. My education will further my goals.

Happy New Years!

Happy New Year my reader. Today's read will surely be a treat for you, for you will know deeper into my life by learning about my new year resolutions.

1. Refrain for eating any type of flesh (not including dairy)
2. Refrain from the use of profanity (It sounds bad when I do)
3. Exercise at the gym regularly (weekly, how common is this resolution?)
4. Do well in school (Typical but true)
5. Write more about my life (will people know enough about me if I die suddenly?)
6. Practice Mandarin again (Ni Hao ma?)
7. Use ear plugs when I read (helps me stay focus, I must remember to use them)
8. Practice good posture
9. Save money
10. Refrain from mumbling my words.

What do you think?

Misconceptions of the Elderly

In my experience, the late family members silence the elderly among ones community. I have always found that they sit back and observe the generation after them in silence, as if they could not relate. My misconceptions of the elderly have reassessed. My girl friends grand parents are the most liberal elderly couple I have ever met. The places they have been and the education they received helped them be just that. Her grand folks were very accepting to me and had very nice things to say about me. I thought I was stealing their thunder;everyone but me knew that everyone was just trying to fit me in to my place in the family.

The grand folks topped off the welcome with their interest in me. Everything about elderly people is not the same. I don't know why elderly don't interfere with the younger in many situations, but I was reminded that "old people" have seen and done it all. I won't take that for grant just because they are less mobile and fragile today. They have done it all.

Meeting new family

Yes I know, I am assumed to be my girlfriends’ future husband, a hopeful assumption. On Christmas Eve I had the privilege to meet most of my girlfriends’ family. We all have imaginations that often fail us; and I can say that this Christmas, mine has failed me miserably. I had no idea what it is like being the only girl among three brothers. My thoughts of being a big brother to an only sister would be something of a wild animal protecting the young in its pack, but no. I discovered that this case has proved opposite. My girlfriend interacts with her siblings the same way most do… They love each other very much. I have met all three brothers, and they have introduced and welcomed me with pride. I guess it is natural to be nervous when meeting new family. They all seemed very nice to me, but watched me closely.

The ice was broken during the gift exchange; it is funny how much you can tell about a person by the gifts they give.