Trust

i think that the trust exersises that we did were really fun and they were also interesting, because for the one that one partner had to close their eyes while the other one communicated directios to them , i was partnered with Ryan. it was sort of hard to trust him at first, because i thought that he would think that it would be a good laugh to run me into the wall or something, but after a little bit, i had not yet hit anything, which helped me trust him a lot more than i did at the beginning!

Trust exercises

This is an ongoing theme as our class learns to work with each other in a mature and resposbile manner. Sometimes it can be hard to let go. Do you earn trust or give it?

Street Children and Drugs

I found that in Columbia, the most common type of drugs/addictive substance that street children there take is sniffing glue, and also the heavy consumption of alcohol. This is beacuse they are both very easy to get, and are both also very cheap. In both America and England, although glue sniffing is still popular with children that live on the streets, a new drug called called 'cheese' is becoming very popular.

What drugs do street children take?

http://www.counselling.cam.ac.uk/drugs.html

1. This was the website that used to find out what drugs street children take. I found out that drugs are placed into categories. Stimulants are types of drugs that give a short, energetic effect. These are just recreational drugs. Drugs such as Ecstasy and Crack Cocaine are stimulants.
2. Depressents are drugs that give a relaxing and sensational feeling, as well as reducing the intensity of pain and of emotions such as fear, anger or anxiety. Examples are Morphine.

Specific question research

Each of you has a specific question that you are researching. Write a brief summary of your findings as a comment on this post. Make sure you cite your sources and mention anything of relevance such as the date of the webiste or any posible bias in the information.

M3A 2007-08 Entry 1

Welcome to your blog. Use this space to post comments on the work done so far. Please use these questions to help you structure your answers. Make sure you respond by clicking the link below to 'add a comment' rather than creating a new post. This is your holiday homework and must be posted by January 7th. Any problems, email your work to me tickle_jennifer@tisa.az and I'll post it for you.
Which issue did you find the most interesting to explore and why?
What will you find interesting about the issues we have chosen as a class?
Tell me two facts you have dioscovered about our issues and tell me where you got those facts from.
Tell me about a useful website for research- what is good about it?
What do you hope to achieve in this unit of study?
We have to create a play which is culturally transferrable - give me one way we might achieve this.

This trust exercise worked very well and I trusted my partner enormously because I knew her quite well except it was at some times very difficult because I could hear the people all around me and I got frightened that I would crash into them but I kept my eyes shut because of the instructions that were given to me. There was some times where we misunderstood each other because the signals were sometimes done to many times making us turn around several times and doubting each other a couple of times. Jenna and I trusted each other once the exercise was started but in the before the exercise stared Jenna had trouble trusting me because she of my usual behavior. I on the other had did not care as much as here if I would bump into another person or a table, but Jenna pulled through and it worked actually quite well.
The reason we did this exercise was because we needed to build trust in each other for future projects that we would do in drama. This exercise is very important because we basically put our eyes in theirs and trust them to guide us if we were blind.
We also did a trust exercise in which we put trusted 2 people to catch us when we fall which I thought worked quite well except the only difficulty was that it was quite hard to fall right on command. But we had to fall like a tree so it would be easier to fall and catch. I trusted the people in my group but they sometimes were caught off guard and they once didn’t catch me but they did try to but I slightly touched to floor.

The reason we did these trust exercises were because if we were ever to do such a thing a project we could trust the people to catch us.

By Riyad Mamedyarov, muhahaha

My First Post

I really wanted to explore the topics about rape and drugs. I would like to do these because i think it is a big problem all around the world. It is also something that should be taken it more seriously. Our classes final choice was to include many global issues into our class project. We chose to do child abuse, street children, drugs and rape. I really like this idea because we are including alot of global issues that effect people all around the world. And we can also explore all of the topics and not just one of them. Which i think will make the project more interesting. I went onto the CNN website to research about Child Abuse. I found some really interesting Information on the site http://www.co.ba.md.us/Agencies/police/community/abuse.html. Two interesting facts that i found out was that 84% of prison inamtes were abused as children. Another fact that i found out was that one in three girls and one in five boys have been and are being sexualy abused by an adult, during their childhood. I found this site very usefull because it was easy to follow and the information was very useful.