Hands, hands and more hands

Last Monday Ingrid had an activity planed for us that consisted of two parts. We went outside and everyone was listening to their music. The first part of the activity was that we had to draw our hand, as detailed as possible, but realistic.

The second part was that we had to draw our hand as detailed as possible, without looking at the paper, just at our hand. I did this one twice, and here are the results.

So today we did the same exercise of drawing our hand without looking at the paper but this time without music. Yeah, my results weren’t so good. 

Incense

Oct 4

Today’s morning meeting was led by Isa and it was very interesting. We all sat down in a circle, she had incense and made us close our eyes to listen to the audio of a video. The video was about how we have to live in the moment, but just listening to it with our eyes closed made it so much different. I imagined everything and I actually felt very emotional. When the video ended everyone opened their eyes but remained quiet. I felt really good and was in a state of peace and relaxation and didn’t really fell like talking. I wonder if the rest didn’t talk for the same reason. Well, the point is, this activity was AWESOME!

Geology in Guatemala

Oct 3

Geologist Sam Bonis came to the MPC today. He gave us a class about Guatemalan geology, focusing on Lake Atitlan’s geology. I learned that Lake Atitlan used to be a Caldera (a super volcano y National Geographic’s Words) and that about 84,000 years ago it exploded and that is why the lake is shaped the way it is. He said that ash and rock from this explosion has been traced all the way to Florida, Panama and Columbia. I learned that out of Atitlan’s 3 volcanoes (Atitlan, Toliman and San Pedro) only Atitlan is active.

He mentioned that Guatemala was one of the best places to study geology because it has so many different types of terrains, it has active volcanoes accessible to public and it is in between 3 different tectonic plates. So I guess we should consider ourselves lucky to live in such a wonderful and varied place. 

The Way to Success

Oct 3

In today’s morning meeting, Diego showed us a video of a Hip Hop Preacher called  Eric Thomas. This video is titles formula to success. The best part about this video is that he says that if we want success we have to really want it and want it bad, as bad as we need to breathe when suffocating. He says that we also have to be aware of all the opportunities that are around us, because we can miss them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPsnqwmn21g

Love for Euclid

Oct 2

Today was my very first Euclid presentation. I have to say, I was kind of shocked that I was chosen to present Euclid, since my math skills are so weak. Remember that I used to complain about Euclid? That he had to be crazy because his definitions didn’t make any sense? Well, I take that all back now! I LOVE Euclid! Last Friday we started working on his first 3 propositions and we were actually able to understand proposition 1 and 3. I was so thrilled. After that we skyped with Andrew Humphries and he helped us understand them even better.

I got to present proposition 2. We had it all planed out and it was going to be perfect. After proposition 1 was presented we realized that nobody understood. I mean the ones who presented knew all the definitions, postulates and common notions by heart and of course our classmates who we where presenting to didn’t. So we had to change all of our presenting structure. This got me kind of mad, because I really wanted it to be prefect and I had to do it a certain way so everybody could understand. At least everyone said I did a great job presenting.

I will post the videos later on this week

11 hours of 5 days

So I have to read a book for monday, its if 415 pages long and I have only read 20. In total I have to read 11 hours in order to finish the book. We also had to work out a schedule to read the book. I really thought that it was a lot to read, but if I read according to my schedule it wont be tedious. It will actually give me a lot of time to do other things (like catch up with my blog).

The book we have to read is A Well Educated Mind by Susan Wise Bauer.

Here is the picture of what my schedule looks like.

Wish me luck!!!