Wikipedia Train: Yaure Language to Rugby World Cup

To begin this Wikipeida trail I looked through the Twitter feed and found the Yaure mask. I chose this piece as it is located in the St. Louis Art Museum, a place I have been to many times as I am from St. Louis. I then went on Wikipedia and then looked at the Yaure language. I learned that Yaure is a language of west Africa.

Ivory Coast: Then I clicked on Ivory Coast as I feel as though it is a country I do not know a lot about so I would like to learn more about it. I went through the table of contents and found out what sports they like to play as sports are one of those things that unify a whole group of people

1995 Rugby World Cup: From here I clicked on the 1995 Rugby World Cup as this was the first world cup that Ivory Coast qualified to play in. It was also the first major sporting even to be held in South Africa after apartheid ended which is a big deal.

Rugby World Cup: I wanted to learn a little more about rugby so then I went on to learn about the Rugby World Cup as a whole. The most recent competition took place in Japan where South Africa beat England to get their 3rd world cup.

The mask that started it all. Source

Micro-fiction: The Tortoise and the Hare

As the hare lays there comfortable with his lead,
the tortoise makes progress like a fast mare and finishes ahead of the hares heed.

Hare was lazy, Turtle was steady.

Authors note: The story that I chose to condense and make my own microfiction out of is the classic story of the tortoise and the hare. What was interesting to me is that the story is listed as the hare and the tortoise but I have only ever heard it flipped as the tortoise and the hare. I don't think I ever really struggled with making the story as the original is pretty short to begin with but I did have to stop and think for the 25 word one to use words that would rhyme, but still convey meaning instead of just not making any sense.

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EC: Week 6 Biographical Writing

For this week I think I will be writing about my weekend for extra credit because I think it was very enriching and is a weekend I will remember for a long time.

This weekend a couple of friends and I drove up to Tulsa, OK for a friend's sister's quinceanera. For those of you unfamiliar, a quinceanera is a coming of age ceremony for a hispanic girl when she turns 15. We left Friday night and first stopped at the hotel to drop our stuff off, but then we went to my friend's house to eat some food. Not only was his house out in the boonies somewhere but the food there was out of this world. I'm already a big fan of Mexican food but when it is authentic and spicy and fresh I'm in heaven. We ate to our hearts content and the next day was the actual quinceanera. I had never been to a quinceanera so I had no idea what to expect but it was a great time. There were a ton of people, and once again great food. The dress his sister was wearing was also very pretty. It was a light pink kind of like what is shown below. We ate and drank and danced to our heart's content. It was a very fun weekend as I love big family functions like that. I think in the future I need to go to more quinceaneras.

An example of the dress that his sister wore

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Biography

I think the stupidest thing I have ever done probably goes back to my childhood where my friends and I would play in our back alley way. I'm convinced that when you are a child you have a +10 luck stat that you slowly lose when you get older. In my back yard there was a big paved road that my garage backs up to. My friend lived right next to me so often times we would ride bikes down it really fast and then lock our back wheels to see who could make the longest skid mark. This wasn't even the stupid part. The stupid part was that sometimes we would play a game where we would see if somebody could get a stick through the spokes as they rode down at full speed. Kinda like this meme but somebody else doing the sticking. Luckily nobody ever managed to actually get it through. If they did we would probably go flying.

Our game

I chose this story because I the prompt of the stupidest thing you've ever done was funny.

Reading Notes: PDE Mahabharata Part A/B

For this week's reading I wanted to read the PDE version of the Mahabharata as I think it is a little more accessible and easier to understand. The hardest part of this week's reading is to keep all the names straight, especially when we see generations grow and new generations arise. It was also a lot to keep track of in terms of the several smaller stories that were intertwined into the main one. I found myself Googling the names a lot to look at the family tree to remind myself of the relations, kind of like Game of Thrones honestly. Below is the family tree that I used and helped me.

Family Tree

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Tech Tip Week 6: Canvas Mobile App

I've used Canvas both on Android and iOS. I really enjoy using Canvas on my phone. The only problem is that it is hard to really do assignments on your phone so I usually just look on my phone for due dates of for when grades are put in. I also pretty consistently find myself going to the Canvas website to see the statistics for assignments.