Hola Class!
Coming back into the swing of things was nice and it was really good to see everyone again. After Dr. V came back from the 2008 AAHPERD convention, I felt good vibes from everyone in the class and it seemed like we were all refreshed and ready to tackle the final few weeks we have together! Here is what went down in weeks 11 and 12...
Week 11:
On Tuesday, we started watching the video "Unnatural Causes". This was a veryy interesting film with the main question, "Is inequality making us sick??!". It covered issues of racial and socioeconomic issues in health. This sparked my interest because I have never really heard of this issue before. The data and research showed alarming results. The studies showed that stress levels and income level correlates with health. Even if an African-American man had high-income, the average Africa-American man had a shorter life expectancy. Do you think it has anything to do with the stressors that someone from a minority population encounters in their daily life? Then, on Friday, Dr. V showed us around the Healthy People 2010 site and how to read the certain charts of the objectives of a certain health topic. By showing us this, this information would eventually lead us to the next Advocacy Project!....
Week 12:
On Tuesday, we did our Advocacy Project and we had to pick a certain environmental health issue and pick one objective of that issue and then report the goals, changes, and improvements of the certain objective. We finally had to find a bill that relates to the certain objective I had to do this blog twice!! Very frustrating! lol. But everyone's specific issues were very interesting to read about!
Also this week, on Thursday, Dr.V and Shar switched things up and Shar lead the class discussion about Reading 20 which talked about how some people say that the ozone layer is closing up and maybe the environment IS getting better and it gave such an inspiration to all people who do "live green"! GREAT JOB SHARRRALEE!!
My dear friend Shar Drew.
Finally, Dr. V showed us what HER passion was and it was taking other people's "junk" and using it for other purposes! So amazing. She also gave us super cool green bags from Dave @ Super One! I always wanted one, and I am thankful to have been given one! Shar, Heather, and some other people from class took a group picture of us and had us sign a SUPER ONE grocery bag as a thank you to Dave! Reallly cool.
Thank you Dr. V!
Choh's Final Thoughts:
These past 2 weeks and I guess you could say this semester SO FAR has been such a great experience! I can tell everyone is very passionate about the things we do, have great feedback for all the hardwork everyone does, I enjoy hearing people's thoughts and opinions, the blogs look great! Keep up the good work guys! You all are thinking critically, blogging amazingly, and making this course one that I look forward to going to! :)
"Be the change you wish to see in the world." ~Mahatma Gandhi
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5 comments:
Kathy you are so funny! You just post a picture of Shar. Everyone in environmental is loving Shar lately! Can't wait until Saturday when we can all love each other more! --S
Bahaha, nice pic=) That's soo funny! But also, great review! You always remember everything we do in this class. I forgot about the picture but and I took it! HA
But seriously there was no plan about me taking over the class...Dr. V just sat in my spot and said she was gonna be me (for the record-)
Ok well, thanks for the shout out on your blog! Hope you enjoyed the wonderful weather today and I'll see you tomorrow!!!
Kathy-
Great review! I thought it was funny that you added Shar's pic in there, it added a little somethin somethin. haa. I think that everyone is passionate as well as to what we're learning in class. Keep up the great work!
Kathy
First of all, loving the pic of Shar. I'm glad we all feel that we need to start doing shout outs in our blogs! haha. You always have such great reviews, so thorough and good! Good thing that paper bag with all of our signatures is sitting in my room on my desk. Shows how much I love Environmental Health. Anyways. Great job and Good Monday!
I forgot about Dr.V's junk that she turns into stuff. That is really cool..we should try and do that around our house haha! I think we have enough junk to do it!!! I also love the picture of Shar haha!!! Good job!
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