Down over at Westview, we have a lady that absolutely loves arts and crafts. Before she was disabled by MS and a massive stroke, she loved to make homemade cards and send them out to everyone. Thank-you cards, birthday cards, sympathy cards, you name it. However, her MS and the stroke she suffered caused her the loss of use of both her legs, her ability to eat, the use of her left arm, and severely impairing her right. She is the sweetest little lady I've ever met, and her kindness and happiness touched me in a way. So, another student and I decided to create a whole whack of blank cards for her and put them in a decorative box with her name on it; giving it to her as a parting gift before our internship ends. I am definitely not an artistic person what so ever, but I get an overwhelming feeling of happiness when I work on this project, and I cannot wait to share pictures of it with everyone when I have completed it.
I mentioned in my last post that I've been having troubles keeping my motivation up towards my Kung Fu training lately. So, I created another task for myself to keep me somewhat involved and experimenting with my knowledge and skills. I've been taking the curriculum, and picking techniques (right now, it's the roundhouse kick) and looking at different things that we can do to make learning and perfecting it 'fun'. So I've been racking my brain, and looking at past things that we have done in other classes that involve each technique and writing them all down. Eventually, I want to be able to print off a page or two per technique that are just loaded full of drills, stations, combinations, etc. so that when you want to plan a class around a technique, you can just pop open the binder, and see a series of different ideas that could possibly be incorporated into a class setting. It'll be the binder of creative repetition.
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
