Week 9/10 College Life

  

Last and This week Has been exhausting with midterms, homework, and playing soccer all which has made my schedule overload. I am happy that a tournament in campus called Intramurals began where I made a team for Coed, and Men which will play every Tuesday and Thursday playing the sport I love with all my passion and heart "Soccer". Although something I learned that is fundamental for someone to succeed and involves both sports and School is Cooperation. For My Asian American Studies Class we have a big project for the end of the semester which will consist working in a large group of people which is around 1. Man it is difficult to cooperate, if it would be 5 or 6 there is able to handle, but with so many ideas being thrown out, everyone wanting to do this and that makes everyone frustrated and we still need time to plan it out.

 Something new I learned this week was to stay organized, and not be like my roommate that does not organize the papers. Why? If someone is not organized in life it will be difficult to go and be someone, by not being a organize person with the only filing papers, but with your time, and what you do, many people have to understand that if we continue this habit when we are still in college, later on in life, it will affect us.  

  I was surprised to hear about the main religions in South Africa a nation where 11 religions exist throughout the nation.  Around 15.1% do not belong to any religion or group, 7.1% are Catholics, 11.1% are Zion Christian, 6.8% is Methodist, around 6.7% belong to dutch reformed. Other type of Christian are 36%, in the religion, Pentecostal/Charismatic 8.2% worship, only 1.5% are Muslim. The anonymous groups are 2.3% and 1.4%. Wow their are so many religions which have divided the population, where one believes in a certain belief, meanwhile someone else believes something else which has caused conflicts within each religion. 

Week 8 Reflection:

This week that past it was difficult with a lot of homework, and especially on Wednesday when I had to work, which left me no chose to study Monday and Tuesday. Even though midterms are two weeks I am a little nervous, but at the same I am confident as well I am pretty sure I will pass it with a lot of integrity and if I study hard for my Urban Studies and Journalism 100 test.

  Something new I learned this week, but does not have to do with school is everyone with judge you no matter what. You can try  the best you can, even if you know it, many people will doubt it and make you feel bad. I have witness and experienced a lot of this injustice but I have tried to avoid and not pay attention to any of those negative comments or feedback.

 Learning more about my culture many may ask why is their a large descendant of white people in South Africa and the reason is that during WW2 many British including a few Jewish settled in this part of the world which from 70 years ago up to this day, around two generations exist. Many of these people brought a new mix of culture and have spread Christianity, and different European customs in the African nation.

Week 7

Another week of school, and work starts to accumulate on every class. The next week I have my second Geography test, but the bad news is that I have to work before the test, and I will not have any other option but to study Monday, and Tuesday in order to be ready for the test on Thursday. Besides that midterms are coming in two weeks, and I have to prepare in order to get a good grade on all my test, which means no procrastination, and study hard from this point on.  

 

 Something new I learned this week was learning about the Bermuda Triangle and the history about it. I wanted to learn more about this triangle, and how planes, boats disappear, and after learning what happens, my final conclusion is that I will never go to that location in my life. 

 

 Learning more about the culture of South Africa, the main religion in that country are that most of the population is Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism, and I was surprise to hear Islam, Hinduism, and Judaism were religions that expanded all the way to South Africa. I thought these religions were only practice and held in the middle east, but today most of the religions have expanded to all parts of the world. 

Reflection 6

    So far on my week 6 of college semester two this has been one of the relaxing weeks all semester. All the week it was compose of lectures and videos in World Geography, Urban Studies, Journalism, and Central American 102. This week that is coming will not be that stressful except for Asian American Studies which we will have a debate where we have to prepare ourselves in order in order to look smart, and well informed with information.

     Something new I learned this week is something that does not have to do with school. If a girl is going to like you or me the physical appearance is not what all girls focus on. If a guy is not physical attractive, but with a outgoing personality, there is a chance that beautiful girl that might reject you can still go out with you. I learned to not give up and try until the end to get who you want.

   For this week for my hobby which is to learn information about the culture of South Africa, i learn the favorite type of music that people in that region of the world listens too. Classical Music, Jazz which is classified into three different genres which are Township Jazz, Black Jazz, and Marabi. Another type of music is called Kwaito which not that many people listen to or have hear about which originated in the 1990's,and it is not a fast pace but many enjoy it in Johannesburg one of the biggest cities in South Africa

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