A Massive Audience...

I am not sure how many of you have seen this or can even tell what this is a picture of. Well I will give you a hint it was from January 21, 2009. If you don’t know by now it was the day of President Barrack Obama’s Inauguration. All of those spots that look like tiny ants, are mobs of people attending this historic day. Now I do have to say that I am not the biggest fan of the President but I can say I know when I see history happening and a change that will be remembered.

I am not sure whether this crowd is there just because he is the first African-American President or whether it is because they think he will make a serious change in the United States. I would have to say there were both and probably some hoping to see him fail. I am not sure what I really expect from him I know it is not failure, I hope to see a change. What he is trying to do with things such as health care can be revolutionary in this country, and what he has done to try and fix the economy looks like if it succeeds it could be great for this country as well. Although these are also things that are on a cycle and trying to fix them in certain ways like he is trying could make it worse in the short run and the long run giving us a shorter period of time in between where things are good.

All in all what is going on is revolutionary itself, the country came together as one to elect a person that would almost anytime before been taken of the contest very early. This really shows how far this country has come in the last 50 years alone, back when Martin Luther King Jr. was fighting for equal rights. Just makes me think that if the whole country pulled together to do this imagine what greater things we could do if we focused on other more important things, such as, energy crises that we have been having. It is just a start that we have hit right now, but there could be many greater things to come. In all this has been started by one man that managed to bring a country together for the most part by just being elected by the people itself.

Communication...

So obviously I am not great at this communication thing considering it is almost seven at night and I am just starting my blog.
Communication has never been one of my strong points in fact with some people close to me we are able to understand what the other is thinking with out talking at all. Those people of course are the closest to me being my two best friends and my dad.

If I would have to say one time when communication was a major point in my life, it would probably have to be during my years in high school on our robotics team. This would include all of the time that the different teams being mostly design and manufacturing team, would have to communicate their ideas and plans in order to successfully build the robot within our six week build period. This is not the only time communication was essential but also when we would go to competitions. The communication here would be in between the drive team which I was a part of and the pit crew which I also managed to be a part of but the details about what was broken, needed to be fixed, or needed to be changed would have to be clearly communicated. This was a big part of the competition and we had to move very quickly because we had very little time in between rounds in order to make changes or fixes. The last time when our communication was very critical was within the drive team itself, between the operator and me, the driver, in order to control the robot; this is because the control system of the robot required two people.

When I was younger the biggest problem I had with communicating was completing my sentences with clear details. I always understood what I was talking about but other people unless they spent a lot of time around me would get lost when I would try to get out thoughts. It is actually hard for me to think of any instances right now that would give a better understanding to this, guess it is kind of ironic that I am trying to convey an idea yet I can not think of an example to show it. I have gotten better since being younger at least most of the time, other times it seems to be that the people that are around me most like I said earlier they seem to be able to think like me or at least understand my way of thinking.

So it seems not so much that communication has been a large part of my life but more of being able to understand with a lack of communication. In some ways this seems like it could be good for the people close to me to where a communication block would not cause as much of a problem, but for people that don’t know me as well it could be very difficult because it can be frustrating because they don’t understand that it is difficult for me to clearly convey my ideas.

Another Beginning...

Critical thinking is one of the most confusing things about me. I over analyze everything that I do and everything that happens around me. Sometimes it can be very useful because I will think of ideas or solutions that would not normal be considered, yet at sometimes it seems to be inconvenient cause I find myself taking to much to or putting to much effort into analyze things. Reading if one of my favorite things to do I can find myself reading books all night only to realize that I have lost all of my time to sleep. I do have to say it is almost impossible for me to reread a book, this is because I analyze it so much the first time through that when I go back and try to read it again I find myself you could say predicting the future or what will happen, this frustrates myself so I just find new things to read.
Politics, media, math, science, and just about everything I do are analyzed to an extreme. One thing I enjoy is watching debates or speeches and just trying to prove points wrong or right, or trying to see different points and why they are or are not reasonable. Even if I am driving I over analyze things, for example a story of mine dealing with the new Toyota recalls, I was driving with my grandfather to Phoenix one night and all the thoughts crossing through my mind were what do I do if the car gets stuck full throttle, what do I do if we blow a tire. These are things I deal with everyday, I used to think that I was just to cautious but now I realize that I just am trying to understand everything, and learn what I could do to change it, or benefit from it.
I am really hoping that I can use these analyzing abilities for better use to my English skills. I have never had English as a strong subject for me, and have never really been able to pin point a reason as to why it seems to be such a struggle for me. I am hoping that soon I will be able to have a better understanding for what writing skills I need to improve on and which ones I need to leave alone. I know that one of my weak points is understand research and interpreting it into my own words and thoughts. I am hoping this will be my last English class because I am engineering major, or possible Culinary Arts, so I would like to make sure I learn as much as possible form this class cause it may very well be the last time I take English.
Well hoping for good things to come from this class, and good luck to everyone else. I am really excited to see what I can do with my new look towards an English class then every time before.