Monday, March 11, 2013

Global Education Skills Alliance




                      In class we had a guest speaker by the name of Mark Harris, who is President and CEO of G.E.S.A. He came to our class to talk about "G.E.S.A" (Global Education Skills Alliance). From my understanding G.E.S.A is a program that is used to help students study abroad also to help cut the cost of studying abroad also provides internships and employment opportunities. I was interested in hearing what Mr.Harris had to say because, I always wanted to travel the world. G.E.S.A provides some once in a lifetime opportunities. Mr.Harris said that we could go some study abroad trips that is a whole 4 months (A whole school semester). G.E.S.A's website will launch on April 1st, 2013. Yes that is April Fool's day but that wasn't a joke. Mr.Harris is from Australia so we learned some unique things. Like, they drive on the opposite side of the road, a brand new car there can cost up to 90,000 dollars, and there minimum wage is almost 20 dollars an hour. But there will be a G.E.S.A meeting on March 14,2013 so come attend! You may never know where this can take you!

Monday, March 4, 2013

Felt sense

In English class we did an assignment to try and get in touch with our "felt sense". The reason for this assignment was to get us to write freely and possibly come up with a topic  for our "Crime and Punishment" paper. To me it wasn't helpful because I already knew my topic, but I did the assignment anyway. I'm not saying that this is a waste of time because it didn't help me this time. Some people in the class thought it was helpful. So next time it might help me. Overall it was a good assignment and helped me get some things off my mind and let my mind wonder.