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I didn't know what to title this one. I titled it, "title" as you can see. Huh.. ever say a word so many times that it starts to loose meaning? That just happened. Title, title, title title, title..

My second week of school was fabulous, thanks for asking. Child Development is my all time favorite class. It feels like a college class might. One day the air was off in the whole school! 97 degrees in all of my classes, 98 in others. In CD we sat on the floor in the huge empty space outside of the class room so it wouldn't feel so hot. That day my teacher taught us "This Is It" & how we need to make situations "it." She talked out a scenario about a person's life.

Remember when you were born? You said, "oh man, this is it!" Then you were sitting there one day & you thought about how if you wanted to go somewhere, someone would have to pick you up & take you there. So then you thought, "no way, this isn't it. I need to find out my own way to get around."

The scenario went on until we were 85 years old. It ended with us thinking retirement wasn't "it." What's after that? Nothing. You want to start over & make everything "it."

The point of this lesson was to learn that we need to make our life now, "it."

She did another example holding a homework pass. She said no strings attached, no catch, nothing. No one could believe it so we were all just sitting there. She kept asking us who wanted it. We would all raise our hands but no one ever got it. Finally one girl stood up & walked over to the teacher & took it out of her hands. The teacher explained how not everything we want will come to us & how we have to stand up & get it to make.. "it."

Kind of a corny lesson but it was really interesting & got me thinking.

Also, in this class, when we walk in the class room, upbeat music is playing loudly. We have to stand up & clap to the beat. Then when the teacher reaches the front of the class we start to clap faster. Then to close it we put one hand in the air & one hand behind us. We bring the two hands together & clap them while making a "oouuup" sort of noise. This causes a brain interuption to refocus our brains.

At the end of class the teacher sums up everything we learned in the class that day. Everytime she says something, we repeat it & acknowledge it with a "oouuup" clap again.

Pretty affective if you ask me, since I've remembered everything in this class so far!