Guest Speaker

On wednesday we had a guest speaker in our english class about his trip to Africa. I was very surprised that in such a war torn country that they were able to execute what they had planned to do. Another thing that was interesting to me was the lack of fresh water and electricity. The fact that the main city had only 4 hours of electricity a day made me think how life would be like if we had that in the U.S. The pictures he had were also intriguing in that with war going on everyone was very happy. The things that he did to help out the countries schooling was a great deed and I'm sure they were very thankful for him and his group.

art museum visit

I finally saw all of the ball state art museum yesterday to gain information for project 2. I was surprised with all the collections and how big the museum actually is. The part i liked most, well theres really two. The first would be the giant Buddha, it is gigantic and i guess if you leave coins by his feet it is suppose to give you good luck. The second would be the coin collection that they have in one of the far rooms on the second level. They i have over 200 dated way back into history. Another interesting thing is the african and south american exhibits, the masks from a long time a go are fascinating that people were able to make them. Overall i gained enough information to begin my paper and to hopefully do a good job with it.