Observation Proposal

I am going to be observing a fitness trainer at the gym i work out at. I am going to see how he interacts during a workout session. I am going to be noticing how he talks to them and what he does with the person he is training. I will see if there are any differences from him training a male from a female. I am going to be noticing how the atmosphere is involved with the training too. I will possibly interview him and see why he does this and what are his feelings about it.

In Freshmen Seminar we are reading the book "Charles Darwin: His Life and Times." I think that the book is a somewhat easy read and not near as boring as I thought it would have been. W e are going through the book at a good pace, about fifty pages a week. Its not at all too much to read for a week span. We are given quizzes every week to make sure we are doing the reading, but the quizzes are really easy. I like the class in general too. Grubaugh seems like quite a professor and I am glad I was able to be in one of his classes this semester.

In biological anthropology and prehistory we have been going over powerpoints everyday it seems like. I get really tired in this class. We had to do an assignment answering ten questions about The Beak of the Finch. It was alot of reading but we did have a huge time frame to complete the assignment. I kept putting it off and saying I would get to it eventually. Well i got to it, three days before it was due. I really was mad at myself for waiting so long to do it because I had started to get sick that day. Point said, I am not going to wait til the last weekend to do an assignment we were given three weeks ago. It was just too much work at one time, and I had to waste an entire day basically doing the assignment.

Tommorrow in chemistry will be our first quiz of the semester. Up until this point we have been doing a "reveiw" of chapters one through four. I do not really say its a reveiw because I can barely remember some of the things he is going over. I have not had a chemistry class since my junior year in high school. I am not really nervous about the quiz, however im just very interested in seeing how his quizzes are. I like Dr. Freilich but I just feel like this is a lot of material. I looked over the homework that we have had to complete so far so I hope that will give me a good enough study guide for the quiz.

I decided to go to a movie with my cousin Thursday night and watch The Final Destination 3D. He works at the theatre so we were able to get in free with the glasses which was very convenient. This was my first 3D movie I had ever seen. When we got the 3D glasses, I was very suprised to see how they looked. I was expecting the old half red and half blue glasses, however they seemed to be more high tech and gave a much better picture. The movie itself was good, however I think the 3D made the movie. At some parts I was actually trying to touch an object that seemed to be right in front of me. Also, some of the parts did make me jump a little, because I would say something to my cousin and then something would just jump out and catch my off guard. Overall, I really liked the movie and was pleased with the 3D experience.

9/17/09

Today in class, Elliot and Bobby were to sit in the middle of the classroom and have a conversation. At the start, it seemed Elliot was the more nervous one and Bobby was the one that initiated the conversation. Both were laid back in the chairs and had their legs crossed. Also both of them were shaking one of their legs. Bobby was talking louder than Elliot and had more to say. Elliot was giving short answers at first and then started to open up more. Some of the audience members also took part in some of the conversation. When the topics were changed, both of them were thrown off guard it seemed, but started to relate; however, then the subject had changed again. It seemed as soon as they got a point to talk about, they had to start over. I thought that would have been really hard to do. At the end, both were kind of just looking around and waiting to end it. However, I do think that the two of them did find out some interesting things about each other they could relate to.

Observation Exercise 9/17/09

While watching the video at home, I was able to see so many more things than I had seen in class. I recognized more details and was able to relate more to myself. When he kept saying "No mom, I don't eat fish," he did not change his mind easily and was saying it very fast. That reminded me of myself sometimes when I'm with my mom. When I listened to the video I was able to realize that this conversation had happened before, because the son seemed to reply like this was not the first time she has asked. Also when I listened to the video I found out that the mom just wanted her son eat the fish for good reasons, but the son did not want any part of the fish. While watching the video I was able to see things like the son ignoring his mom at the beginning and his mom just trying to show him that fish is very healthy for him. While just listening to the video you can somewhat get a sense of the idea, however you would not get as much as if you were watching and listening. Watching the video a second time definitely gave me more of a clear picture of what was going on in the video and made me look out for most of the details I had missed in the first veiwing of the clip.