roundtable discussion

ok. so for class on monday we had a discussion where everyone said what they were going to write about, then the rest of the group gave feedback. i have chosen to (somehow) write about why school districts should teach manual driving skills instead of just automatic. they need to teach kids how to drive both stick and automatic basically.
so, as for the feedback i got for acknowledging the other side... well, to be honest, anything i got from my peers was really the same thing i had gotten when thinking about it myself. as for what i'm going to use, well, i'll probably use the ideas of the differences in keeping the car running, how its better for fuel costs, but how it also is more likely to have clutches burn out faster if students were learning how to drive on them. i will use how even though these kinds of cars get better control while driving, and less maintaining, there is also less stick shift cars made, so this is probably partly why not as many people know how to drive them.

*ANY OTHER FEEDBACK FROM ANYONE ELSE ON HOW TO DO THIS PAPER WILL BE GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!*

questions from 365

well... i actually figured out what my topic would be pretty much at the end of the class... and it was from my classmates helping me figure it out. but after looking at the questions now, i think that the problem of people not knowing how to drive stick realy exists now. i'm a living proof of it. this has been caused by drivers ed teachers only teaching kids how to drive automatic cars, and not having the two different kinds for access. the history... well its been going on forever far as i know. the bad effects are that people don't know how to drive stick, and can actually cause some people to get hurt, or in a bad situation if they don't know how to drive stick. if people knew how, this could solve people from being in a dangerous situation like stranded on a mountain with only a stick driven car. everyone who drives is affected by this problem... and that's basically it.

two topics

OK...to be honest, I'm (again)struggling on coming up with a topic or in this case, two topics on what we have to write about for this solutions paper. i guess some of my ideas would be animal restrictions in neighborhoods, but as to how I'd propose a solution for that, i have no idea. i can't think of anything that's a problem, or at least one that i could fix with 4h or gas prices, even though gas prices is a big problem in my book. another idea i guess is that the little league baseball fields need to have more bleachers or seating for families and friends to watch the kids play. this would help have support for the players from their parents. i can think of plenty of problems, but i can't think of any way that i could fix them... i guess I'm too easy going of a person!hopefully, I'll think of something fast, so i don't have to struggle as much with this paper as i have with the last ones.

catching up/ interview day

ok, so i'm going off of memory here, the blog for friday was i believe that we had to talk about what we thought of the interview day, and how it went. well, i really liked the activity, i got to know the person i interviewed a lot better. i did find however that the questions i had planned to ask, i didn't get to ask all of them, and the ones i did ask, we ended up going way far off subject from them... So i didn't get to ask all of them that i wanted to. i did find out a lot about my person though. though, as to if i have enough info to write a paper about that person.. i don't know. we mostly just talked about random stuff and things we had in common, or stories about what our family and friends have done. at any rate, it was still nice getting to know that person. i know for my actual interview, i will have to make sure i stay on subject more so.

Delving Deeper

I think its important to not just all of a sudden jump into really deep personal questions. because of this, i plan on asking a few questions to break the ice, like where they are from, what their familiy is like, and what they like to do in thier spare time. to add a little depth to my latter questions though, i might ask things like how their family has influenced their beliefs in certain matters. what's important to them. if growing up where they did influenced how they look on life, and if they could change where or how they grew up, would they? i also want to ask a few silly questions, because i think that in order to really get to a person's true self, you can't ask all boring deep questions. they have to be fun too. so one question i would like to ask, is if they had an extra hour in a day, to use however they wanted to, what would they use it for, and why? i think this activity will be quite interesting for us to find out about one another, but i will admit that i am a bit intimidated by the idea. i don't like to speak to people i don't know very well, especially about matters that i feel are somewhat personal. anyway, i guess we'll just have to see how tomorrow goes!