Reflection (Tuesday With Morrie): 21 of March 2013

What motivates me the most, when working in a group, is when I see a great equal interest for what we are doing. I really like to see passion on people and when I don't feel them get passionate about the subject, but I do see this spark, I attempt my best to try to turn that spark into a fire that is big enough to incinerate a forest; however, if I see that some people don't have an interest I give up on them and I just let them follow their own way. Nothing necessarily kills my motivation but what does stop me down would be the fact that a person doesn't turn in their work on time or simply forget their materials. If that happens then I will get disappointed and I would probably try to push them away from a project since I don't trust them much.

Reflection (Tuesdays with Morrie): 18 of Mar 2013

As a writer, I have realized that I tend to write with formality and due to this, I find it hard to constantly try express some ideas and feelings when I am writing on my blog; nevertheless, I feel that this formality benefits me as a person since my writing sounds more professional. I dislike the fact that when I am writing in 1st person, I feel uncomfortable and mostly awkward. This is one of the very few reasons that I don't appreciate writing with high formality. I do take pride when I write in Spanish since I feel that my writing is very similar to the newspaper "El Comercio". I might be exaggerating but I still find a couple of similarities. 

Reflection (Tuesdays With Morrie): 14 of March 2013

Unlike Mitch's connection with his brother was quite weak, I believe that my connection with my brothers is strong. Although one of my brothers, is in Canada (studying marketing) I feel that we still are in constant communication. My family is in fact loving and affectionate but we are not like the stereotypical U.S "movie families". We do talk and have constant topics while we are in a conversation mood, but we don't talk about our feelings during dinner. One of the most stereotypical aspects of the U.S "movie families" is reflecting about out day, but my family watches movies on blu-ray. The truth is, I would rather watch the movie "Argo" with my family instead of sharing our feelings.

Relfection (Tuesdays With Morrie): 11 of Mar 2013

In Morrie's fourth Tuesday, he mentions the aphorism, "Once you know how to die, you learn how to live" (82). He is referring about how only people that are dying, and know that they don't have time left yet they enjoy socializing and enjoy the presence of people, know the "right" way of living. I believe that I have not lived enough to learn how to live and that I have a very short vision of what is life and how to live it.

Reflection (Tuesdays with Morrie): 7 of Mar 2013

Morrie highly relates with Mitch due to the fact that they both had a brother that they didn't value until they had a near-death experience. Mitch is actually uncomfortable with the situation and quickly tries to change the subject but he is affected by the problem, nevertheless.

I personally value my brothers quite a lot and now that I have read this part of the book I know that it is perfectly normal to play the "you are adopted" joke. I do, in fact, rely on my brothers. I don't rely on them academically but I do rely on them emotionally since they inspire me and they are always trying to pressure me to get to success.

Reflection (Tuesdays with Morrie): 4 of Mar 2013

Today we benefited a lot from Mr. Topf's advice. Throughout the book, we see that Morrie's childhood was very difficult and it was during a very difficult time as well (The Great Depression). We see that Morrie's father is constantly depressed due to his job and doesn't pay much attention to Morrie; however, Morrie's stepmother is more attached to him and teaches him about love and compassion. This is why Morrie doesn't show manly thoughts but he shows thoughts about friendship and helping your neighbours, etc.

I got to learn that a discussion is better organized when everyone is paying attention from the book and are constantly taking valuable quotes and showing interesting ideas or questions. Although everyone in the group is throwing out ideas, I constantly organize them and bring them down into more brief ideas. When these ideas are more simple, Yoo Hwa writes it on our notes.

Reflection (Tuesdays with Morrie): 28 of Feb 2013

When I read this book and see the actions that Morrie has, I am immediately reminded by my grandmother from my father’s side of the family. She has Alzheimer and each time I talk to her, she squints her eyes and pretends as if she knows who I am; however, this doesn’t stop her from talking about compassion and how “the other day” she saw a man helping a driver who had crashed his vehicle and things like that. Like Morrie, she is a patient elder. Although she doesn’t recognize you sometimes, she is still able to listen and nod along as you speak to her and constantly stops and squints her eyes to see if she is still speaking to you.

Today, I felt as if the reading schedule that we have is losing its value. I think that we are just reading to a page in which we think it is got to stop and this affects us during our discussions. I did get to get continuous discussions that ended up in some ideas for our advertisements. I have improved and I feel that the group doesn’t need a “force push” to get talking as we have more knowledge on the book.