Bathroom and Bills?

I don't understand in your blog how sociologists can see how materialistic a culture can be from it's toilet? I suppose when sociologists look at the gold plated culture yes, but the Japanese one, all I see is cleanliness. What would sociologists say about us and our toilets? I honestly don't think I could make a good judgement from that. I understand the analogy with the culture shock from fishbowl to fishbowl. We'll probably experience that with the 10 hours of volunteering, I'm actually pretty nervous for that, I don;t think I wanna do it alone.

Knock Knock, Who's There? Sonny "Nows You Can't Get Out."

In class this week we've been watching A Bronx Tale, and this movie is really very good, entertaining and interesting. Collogero, the main character, is a boy who is growing up in the Bronx tyring to find his identity or path. Be in the mafia with Sonny, the unspoken neighborhood leader, or to be a loyal son. This relates to the activity, where we needed to define the groups we're apart of such as Stevenson friends, family, religion etc. If i were to categorize Collogero, he'd be in a group with his family, Sonny's crew, individually Sonny, his childhood friends, and his relationship with Jane. Now when Collogero was a young boy his master status was with his father, but as he's grown older it's changed to his relationship with Sonny.

I would also like to comment on the interview with Chaz on your page, his story didn't seem real until he was interviewed. He was great and he had something really important to say, "the saddest thing in life is wasted talent". So many people have an opportunity but can screw it up through drugs, bad habits, violence etc. My absolute favorite quote from the interview was when he said "this wasn't just a fluke and I just happen to knock on the right door, no, the people who knock on all the doors all the time make it." This really hit home for me and relates because being a Junior and wanting to pursue a sport in college is hard work and I'm constantly sending letters and emails to these coaches. This quote is so true!!!

Don't Rock the Boat

I would just like to start off saying that that newsreel was hilarious I can't believe they reported something like that, the voice of the guy was great, like hooking up had become this crazy national epidemic! hahah!!!! Any way the activity that we did earlier in the week was interesting, although I wasn't apart of it I was assigned to take notes on the side and here they are...-Rock, paper scissors?

-"Who's the poet?" -"raise your hands if you have kids?" -"peace corps volunteer should go"

-"pregnant stay" -"football player and wife off! Who's young? Every one's young!" -"Should sailor stay, doctor stay?" -"bye quartermaster she has kids how old?" -Quartermaster gone -Millionaire pay off who ever lives to live -"Mr.Smalls has to leave, pregnant wife stay" -Mr.Smalls Gone -"Wear are the old people, yeah done bye?" -Mr. and Mrs. Eldridge both Gone -"Who votes millionaire off??" -Millionaire off -Traveling poet off

So from my notes I can conclude that teenage kids in American Culture don't value the elderly as much as they do in other countries, where your ancestors define you. And that the young and educated are valued all college students stayed and the Doctors. My last conclusion is that if you haven't done something contributing to society in your life, watch out for your next cruise you could be next! Except if your an epileptic with no meds you always get lucky.

Rugby Players are Cannibals

So this week we read an article about a Rugby team and their loved ones that crashed in a mountain and were left to survive. They came to the realization that the only way to survive was to eat the dead carcasses that didn't make it, in order to have energy to live and find help. Now the survivers came up with many justifications as to why they did what they did or "ate what they ate". The most interesting justification was the one that they said that they'd be sinners if they didn't live because they have the resources right in front of them. I realize that this isn't a religion class, but was that a correct reason? I'm really not sure, personally I am Catholic and I suppose there is nothing in the Bible against eating dead bodies, I assume it's just frowned upon? Well I'd like to know what others are thinking?? Would Bear Grylls go to thhat extreme??

So before posting a blog about relationship and technology it didn't occur to me to introduce myself. So my real first name is Genevieve . I don't really like Genevieve it seems kinda grandma like to me so I go by Genny for short. Lets see I am trying to be a full time student at Stevenson high school along with competing on a travel softball team, then trying to get into college to pursue both. Lately my life has consisted of ACT prep, recruiting questionnaires and friends. My friends keep me sane. I like to think of myself as really honest and light hearted. I think so far the hardest thing I'm trying to change about myself is my maturity level. I'm not like a crazy person in that parents can't take me places, I can be very appropriate, but I have my moments when I should quit joking around and get serious.

Keeping Up With Technology...Relationship Style

Today the population has become enslaved by cold hearted technologies. Whatever happened to face time rather than facebook time? Our generation is wrapped up in the virtual world. For example with the recent publishing of "Hook-ups becoming more prevalent as teens neglect traditional standard" it just shows how shallow our generation has become. When Kevin '10 states that "Instead, the only requirement is physical attraction" no wonder people don't make face time, they're too concerned about the judgment the other will impose on appearance alone. A comical relief to all this madness is the upcoming movie, "He's Just Not That Into You", I watched the trailer and laughed at the witty line, "I had this guy leave me a voice mail at work, and so I called him at home, and he emailed me to my BlackBerry, and so I texted to his cell, and now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies. It's exhausting" sure I laughed but unfortunately it's the scary reality of today. Just look at the divorce rates, they're as high as they've ever been and so have the sales of all these portals. These two things share a direct inverse of each other. Think about the family then..."honey, dinner's ready!" and now...*ring ring*"grab yourself something to eat." I don't mean to criticize because my families the same way. But if we can prevent anymore Kevin '10's I think the world would be a better place.