At the beginning of this course I was over zealous in my goals and endeavors, after 35 years I wanted to accomplish it all and share my lifetime experiences. Talk with you about the Guggenheim, Museum of Natural History, Central Park and Harlem. Its beautiful the things I have seen. But thats irrelevant. I fought my way along until I understood better study habits, reading full sentences and challenging my stroke brain. It was very hard because once I read things 2 seconds later it disappears the effects from stroke, thus I have to write down everything and memorize things. I was also dealing with my 79 yr old mother whom read all the chapters with me and challenged me to come to her house and study. Sometimes I had to print more than one copy of chapter. What pressure!!!I did not want that but it gives her life to challenge her brain.. She was a teacher guys she still teaches and is the president of her own book club. When I tell you she asked more questions than our professor trust me she did. Even between Dancing with the Stars. And top it off I was moving at the same time I believe it was week 5 and my apartment was the pits. I was so depressed and challenged. Where I am now is so nice, it is like night and day, so my mind was more relaxed for the challenges of college on line. At ease.Not totting my own horn but I dont know many folks my age whom have experienced my challenges and challenge themselves to go back to college after 35 years: people dont do that in my culture after having a stroke, they allow life to control themselves and focus on living life. Not me, I am determined I control my own destiny in the true sense of the word. If I plan to change my environment I must do it, I have no one to blame but myself. I want to publicly thank my professor and advisor because they forced me to realize it is not about your lifetime experience or teaching others about the big city but how you apply the knowledge given you are given and intelligently spitting it back. They dont care about the personal unless it applies. I also want to thank my parents for pushing me every week along with my daughter my greatest inspiration whom taught me Anthropology is not so bad. In fact I realized I have always been interested in other cultures. In fact I embraced the class by the end. I am told that I have been an inspiration to many of my peers many are going back to school on account of my SNHU first semester experience and I am glad, to make an impact on changing lives I welcome my next class Into to Sociology.. I will leave you with this thought...The Juliette I was 8 weeks ago is not the Juliette I am now. I said this statement to my mother a few weeks ago. If I stayed in NY I was chasing other peoples dreams, here in Florida I am chasing my dreams Or like my jersey friend said last night checking those classes off your bucket list...JLF!!!
Posted on: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 17:03:58 +0000
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