I bought myself a monthly MetroCard… and since then I am going everywhere! Booking classes and officially I must be one of those annoying trial subscribers of ClassPass 😍😍😍👏👏👏 and taking advantage of the trial month!
1/28/2023 I took a Heated vinyasa flow at Yoga Spa Lounge 1881 for 2 credits.
It was not heated to 95F for sure but the class was legit and I was glad I made it. I Google mapped the direction but missed the connection E train. I almost missed the class but I made it… I hate rushing to a yoga class…
Being economically conscious my a**… I forgot to bring my water bottle…Ka-Ching $3 gone.. grrr I am so mad at myself.
It is something about taking a yoga class… it gives me such a sense of accomplishment and self-improvement… I always forget how I try to resist the desire to be just laying on my couch prior to getting to the class and how many creative excuses for not being able to take the class I came up with prior to the class… After taking the class, I feel motivated and wanting to take more classes.
I have 46 credits left… Am I able to use all the credits??
I started my first course today at the UoPeople: Learning Theory and Implications for Instruction.
So I read the syllabus, learning guide for the unit, reading and discussion assignments details…
It felt a lot… and these are all for this one week…
I definitely need a plan…
So I decided to make a plan, a good plan! well, I was ready, I had already downloaded a study plan from the UoPeople’s community site. I was well informed the fact that a good planning is the key to successfully complete the learning week!
The study plan that was shared within the students’ community!
It is so amazing, how people are giving!! This study plan helped me to have a clear learning week vision ! I felt so grateful…
but I felt like, I needed to arrange things here and there… So I created this, using Evernote app. I was just going to change a few things…
I customized the study plan template for me!
but then again, I wanted more important info on the plan, so I moved onto the google sheet…
Then it became like this…
Before even coming to this point, I spent pretty substantial time to learn how to navigate myself on the online campus… how to take notes digitally, how to use an online library… and so on….
Now I have spent a good few hours trying to make a study plan TEMPLATE! (not the actual van planning yet… )
So now I finally move on to the real reading assignment… 1st page… oh it’s interesting… I should take a note… and highlight… but wait… how??
Now, we can study at the UoPeople 100% digitally. Even all the learning reading materials are from online and from open sources… Yes, that’s right… We don’t need to go anywhere, and we do not need to buy textbooks! They are all online! Sounds so great!
…but then…
As soon as I started my reading assignment, I realized there are so much more to learn how to read digitally efficiently.
To read a book we open a book and then read. To read a digital book, first we download the PDF (or a book), then upload to an app of our choice, then figure out how to highlight, take notes, etc, ete…
I first try to read it on my laptop… mmm not so great… then I tried to read on the google drive… mmm not so great…. You know what I m gonna use kindle! I know how to use that!! So I uploaded my PDFs on my laptop, then downloaded a kindle app, uploaded the PDFs to kindle, then synced my iPhone kindle so I can read on my phone now!
But I did not see my PDF reading assignments in my kindle… WHY?? I tried to figure out how to read the PDF on my kindle…
It turned out that we have to email the documents to our own KINDLE EMAIL! did you know we had kindle emails??
After all these hustle I found out I could not highlight my PDF on kindle…
Please believe me I could use kindle, no problem! I know how to highlight, how to look up the words in a dictionary, how to take notes within kindle!! I just did not know those are not the cases for PDF documents… for PDF, kindle could only bookmark… 😭🥺
I am so shocked… how inconvenient… Anyway… after so many hours, I went back to square 1… reading it on my laptop… but at least I finally started reading … !!!
Thinking… So… it’s like the art of studying… Something we need to sophisticate as we go along with…
I … just… do not think… I have enough time to master this art before the due day in 6 days…
I feel creativity is like a natural spring water… it must come out naturally… you can not force the water to spring out… or can you?
It feels too depressing to say you cannot learn to be creative… because it just is too sad if that is true…
I am remembering those Japanese kids who I used to teach English in Japan. They were 3-5 years old kindergarten students… and they were SOOOOOO amazingly CREATIVE!! every single one of them.
So didn’t everyone start life as a super creative being?? What happened to those super UNcreative people??
Uncreative people must have been creative to start and learnt to be uncreative at one point in their lives… maybe because they learnt to listen to others and stopped listening to oneself…? mmm maybe… ?
If that is how to make uncreative people, then if one learn to stop listening to others and start to listen to oneself… can one be creative again?? mmmm maybe…?
… let’s close eyes… and feel who we are… and start listening to ourselves… to be creative again!!
VOILA! YES!! we can learn to be creative!!
and again, really really the world needs more creativity… to be happier, to be more harmonious,… simply to be better!!
Being B•hū•UR 