FYS CLASS PROJECT

      It is really crazy how fast time goes. Looking at the fact that in 2-3 weeks...we will have completed this course. 

     The idea of choosing a Mayan civilization and constructing it is absolutely great! Being able to collaborate as a class and as a group makes it even better considering the fact that we all came into this class practically strangers. Today was the first layout day of our project. Just being able to mess with the hot glue gun and box cutter seemed absolutely childish but we all had a good time. Sometimes all you need to do is keep simple in order to get the best results. 

FYS Fair

Honestly, going into this fair I didn't know what to expect or what really to do. As I wandered around to  find something, the Tai Chai tutorial lesson caught my eye. Going into it I expected it to be along the lines of Kung Fu and Martial Arts. You know, only used for defense kind of physical interaction type of thing. I was so wrong! As I stood there and took the online lesson is was more along the lines of focusing your "chi" and "chakra"  It was very relaxing but focused at the same time. I don't really want to compare it to meditation because of that being more relaxed. As I did it,'my body honestly felt weird, but a good weird. When I was younger I used to watch a show called "avatar the last air bender" and the way the water benders worked and moved is really similar to the method of tai chi!

 It was new, I'll just put it like that. But it was a good new!

Conspiracies&Theories

Although our class isn't based off of Mayan conspiracies and theories, I was very interested in Ricky's overall presentation. Just the whole idea of another philosophy being proposed differentiating from something we've grown up being taught, is absolutely amazing to me. Could the Mayans have had interaction with "aliens" leading to the drawing of the space shuttle?  Who knows! Just the overall idea and proposal of that possibility is great. Taking in the fact that there are sooo many discoveries about our world that haven't even been revealed yet is frustrating to me. We have so much advanced technology today that it seems as if we should be farther ahead. I'm the type of person where I would love to know what lies beneath the ocean and what's been buried in the mountains. You never know what could be discovered!