Volunteer Observations

Volunteer hours

I volunteered  at a carnival for an elementary school at a concession stand, and I have to say I noticed a difference in the devleopment of children. The kids that were a bit younger, their parents had to ask them what they wanted and they either said yes or no, the older children closer to the 4th and 5th years of elementary school had no problem in voicing to their parents what they wanted. Some children didn't even come up with their parents at all, they came up and right away knew what they wanted. Watching the children was so much fun. The parents of the younger children help them by teaching them how to say please and thank you which I thought was really cute.  As children get older they know more of what they want then just giving the options of what they can have.

I love children and I always have for some reason, so helping out at this event was so much fun, and it was a good way to spend a Saturday. I the kids were funny and polite and they sure did love Cotton Candy, lol. It was a great day over all

Brain Model

This is my brian model

I made it out of clay and I have to say I think it looks pretty freaking good!

 

Red area- Frontal Lobe- Planning/Reasoning, problem solving, recognising and regluationg emotion, social skills.

Green Lobe- Tempral Lobe- Understanding language, processing auditory information, organising information, memory, leaming.

Blue Lobe- Parietal Lobe- Recognising sensations and body positon, Recognising objects, spatial judgements, understanding time.

Purple Area-Occipital Lobe- Intergrating and processing visual information (colour, shape, distance)

Orange Area- Cerebellum- controls balance and muscle co-ordiantion.

Yellow Area- brain stem- regulates breathing, body temperature, heart activity etc.



Day 15 Sleep process

Day 15 02/21/13

I went to sleep around 1:00 a.m. woke up around 11:00 a.m.
I woke up a couple of time because for some strange reason the dogs keep barking in the middle of the night.


I have been staying at my dads house lately and I have noticed that I am a lot more easily woken up then I would be if I was in my own bed. I am the type of person who is extremely sensitive to bed comfortness. My dad happens to have one of those temperpedic bed, and I have to say that I hate it. Every little move that anyone makes in the house (mainly the dogs) I can hear and I wake up. I wake up every morning with a backache and feeling like I haven't slept at all. Although I am sleeping 8 hours or more, I believe that the type of bed really depends on how well you sleep. As I have told you before that I can sleep like a freaking rock, in my own bed, but at my dad's house sleeping in his bed I feel like I haven't gotten any sleep what so ever.


FYI: I am house sitting for my dad, he is on a cruise so I am watching the dogs. Thats the reason I am sleeping in his and my step moms bed. Just thought I should clear that up lol

Day 14 Brotherly Madness

Day 14 02/20/13

Went to bed around 12:30 a.m. woke up around 10:30 a.m.
The dogs woke up barking about two times around 2:00 a.m. and 4:30 a.m.

I was at dinner with my family and I had a new guy I have been seeing at the house for dinner. How out of no where me and my brother get into this huge fight which results into him throwing my phone into the wall. I start freaking out and yelling "you have to buy me a new phone! I can't believe you did that!" I'm am having the biggest fit of my life. I'm crying and screaming and it ends up freaking the guy that I brought over out.

Then I wake up


I have been dating this new guy lately and he hasn't met my family yet, even though I know I would never act that way in front of my family. My brother and I do have a bit of a problem when it comes to who will pay for what, because even though he as more money then I do I end up buying everyones birthday and Christmas presents. I haven't thought about that in a while though so I don't know why money problems would come up in my dream. The guy I have been seeing is not even close to meeting my family, cause even though this is a dream you have to be mentally prepared to meet my family lol.

Day 13 "Hey Jessie"

Day 13 02/19/13

I went to bed around 12:30 a.m. and woke up around 9:30 a.m.

This isn't really a dream that I can explain as me being in the dream so I just have to tell it as a story.

Well for starters I'm a nanny for a 9 year old so I watch a lot of Disney channel a lot lol. One of the shows that is her favorite is called "Jessie" which is about a nanny to 4 adopted kids. Out of the Disney shows its one of my favorites as well, we like watching it together cause she says it reminds her of me. Well in this dream it was like watching a new episode of "Jessie." I wasn't in the dream at all. They were on 1960 though and champions forest drive, and if I remember correctly I think they were trick or treating but not for Halloween, they were doing it for Christmas? Going house to house and kids running around everywhere. I remember that Jessie was wearing a really cute outfit that I loved which is a thought I commonly have when I'm watching the show.

It was a little strange having a dream that I wasn't in. I don't know if thats a common thing or not. Its a bit strange that I have a dream about the show after going the longest without watching it.

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind reflection

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

            Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless mind was a very interesting movie. Normally I can guess what’s going to happen, but this movie had me on the edge of my seat. Jim Carey as Joel and Kate Winslet as Clementine are the main characters. Clementine is one of those free spirited girls, who doesn’t care what other people think and just rolls with the punches. She worked a bookstore and she changed her hair color from blue to green to red. Joel on the other hand is a bit more reserved, not so much as the wild and crazy side, but something from the first moment he met her just clicked. They met at a friend’s beach party and hit it off right away, Joel noticed how fun and free she was.

 They were in a relationship that started out fun, and they were just absolutely crazy about each other, they joked, laughed and played. As things time went on they got more involved and the pieces just started falling apart. They were fighting more, she wanted a commitment and was talking about the future and he was very responsive. Clementine came home one night, extremely late and drunk, she told Joel that she had accidently wrecked his car. Joel was upset and angry and accused her of sleeping around and cheating on him, for her that was the last straw. She packed up her stuff and she left him.

When Joel had time to think about it, he regrets how things happened and missed her. It was Valentine’s Day and decided to surprise her at work with a gift, but when he got there to his surprise Clementine acted as if she had no clue of whom he was. Not only does she not recognize him a guy named Patrick comes up to meet her, and supposedly it’s her boyfriend. He went to his friend’s house to vent and that is when they dropped a big bomb on him. They handed Joel a letter that said “Clementine has had Joel Barish erased from her memory. Please never mention their relationship to her again Thank you Lacuna INC,” he doesn’t know what to think. To get some answers he visits Lacuna INC to find out what they do, and sure enough they erase certain memories from people’s brains. The company basically causes brain damage in order to delete memories from the brain. I believe out of spit Joel decides since Clementine did that to him he was going to do the same thing to her. They asked him to pack every single item he has that reminds him of Clementine and to bring it to Lacuna INC. Using the items they will spark of memories and Lacuna would be able to make a map of this brain of where Clementine memories would be and in one procedure in one night only she would be completely erased out of his mind, just that easy.

So a crew comes over to the house after he takes a drug that causes him to knock out and they get started on deleting his memory.  As Joel is asleep he is seeing the memories starting with the most recent, all the fighting and bickering, and he is happy that they are going away. The procedure is going just as well as he thought it would go. As the memories went on, he remembered why he loves Clementine so much; he remembered the good things about her. He decided that he changed his mind and he didn’t want this anymore. So in his mind him and Clementine hide in other memories that doesn’t involve her so he can keep her in her mind. The doctor running the machine finds them though and deletes her anyways. There was no way of working around it and she gets completely erased from his mind. Later down the road a few months late, by fate they meet again but only as strangers. They hang out and click just as they did before. As Joel drops her off at her house one morning they find their files from Lacuna and read and listen to all the tapes, and it’s all very shocking and scary for them. They come to the conclusion that what they had was real and to start over with each other.

When I first started watching this movie I thought that he had a memory disorder of some short, because it was the type of movie that begins at end then comes moves to the beginning of their relationship. I was extremely confused at first, and I was in for a shock. I don’t believe that any of it could ever be possible though. The fact that you can delete certain memories from your brain is most likely never going to be possible. I can’t even imagine the science it would have to include in order for it to become is remotely possible.

The brain is a very complex place, and adding brain damage to in order to erase memories could possible cause permanent brain damage I believe. You can’t pick and choose what you remember and what you don’t remember, that’s almost playing god. You remember things for a reason; it is what makes you who you are, helps define who you become. They were erasing long-term memory, which remains there on a relatively permanent basis. Because of you long-term memory it helps to make future decisions, so by erasing long-term memories it could affect the decisions you make in the future. Clementine could have been a short term memory but since their relationship continued it transferred to long-term by a process called encoding. Long term memory has an unlimited capacity to store information, so no matter what happened with Joel and Clementine, if they both haven’t had the procedure done they would have always remembered everything that happened in that relationship. Remembering everything they just couldn’t bear to remember all the bad times, because they were both hurt by one other.

Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind is a fictional movie, it’s not possible to cause brain damage in order to erase memories, and for that sake I hope that it never will be. Could you imagine how people would take advantage of the option to erase memories? There are a lot of things that I wish I couldn’t remember, but never in my life would I choose to delete them from my memory. Memories are what make you who you are, how you learn.

 

Day 12 Busy Busy Busy

Day 12 02/18/13

I went to bed around 1:30 a.m. and woke up around 11:00 a.m.


So I'm at work at the auto shop and we are super super swamped. The entire waiting room is full of people, there isn't even a place to sit anymore. I'm feeling overwhelmed and tired, not being able to stop for even a breath.

This is were I work, the shop that was in my dream. I work at the front desk.

Then I woke up

This dream was short, and I don't really remember much, but the weird part is at work the next morning, we were super busy. Not as busy as the shop was in my dream, but we made a lot of money and people were just flowing in non stop. Does are dreams some how tell us the future? Who knows.