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I can't believe this is my last reading of the whole class! This has been so much fun and I have really enjoyed getting to read stories from so many different countries, cultures, and backgrounds. I decided to focus my last set of notes on the story called "The Cat and the Mouse." I enjoyed most of the stories from part B, but I liked this one the best because it seemed familiar to me. For this note-taking post, I decided to do the note style focused on sentences. I love picking out beautiful sentences, and so I thought that would be a good note to end on. A dog passed by and said, "Do you want me?" this made me laugh, trying to imagine a cat standing on the corner advertising how she wanted to get married, but then being asked by a dog if she wanted to marry him. This was a funny sentence!  The cat accepted him and said, "Let us go and be married, for you please me." So they were married. This was just as funny as the first sentence because he

This is crazy that it is our last week of reading! I am so excited about reading some of the Italian Popular Tales. I wanted to focus my notes today on the story called "How the Devil Married Three Sisters." I have never heard of this story before and so when I read it I thought it might be fun to focus my notes on it. I loved all of the stories that made up part A of the reading, but for some reason, this one stuck out to me most. I decided to keep it simple with my note-taking style for part A, and then I will do something new for part B. The devil decided he wanted to get married so he left Hell, disguised himself as a handsome young man, and built a grand house he introduced himself to a family with three daughters and won over the oldest, and they got married soon after  the devil asked his new wife to not enter one door of the house, though she could go to every other part of the house this part reminded me of Beauty and the Beast and how Belle was not allowed to

This week, I loved getting to watch the video about Bob Marley's song that he posted on twitter. Growing up, my family listening to Bob Marley all the time because we were always at the lake or at the beach. This song brought back so many memories and feel-good thoughts about my childhood and my family. I also really liked seeing it performed from the inside of the guitar, it was a great perspective shifter. My favorite picture from the announcements was the groundhog, which I've posted below. I think groundhogs are hilarious to look at! Groundhog!

Woah! 29 days left until the beginning of the rest of my life. Now that is a weird thought! I feel like I just started college a few months ago, but here I am, approaching my last finals week, finishing up my last few assignments, and preparing for my lasts tests in my undergraduate career. I have absolutely loved my time in college. I have made some amazing friends, learned about topics and things that I will use for the rest of my life, and learned SO much about myself.  As I approach the last few weeks of my undergraduate career, I am really trying to stay motivated and appreciate my time in Norman. I live with 7 wonderful roommates, and I have been trying to spend as much time with them as possible. We have been having movie nights, cooking together, and basically spending every waking moment together. I cherish my time with them and I truly don't know what I am going to do when we don't all live together anymore!  I am also working hard to stay motivated in my classes.

I loved this learning challenge! Because I'm taking 18 hours this semester, I do a LOT of desk sitting. Finding some yoga and exercises to do while sitting at a desk is so applicable to the season of life I am in. I included the link to the article I liked best, and I will list the exercises that I am going to continue below. Shoulder rolls  two minutes of rolling your shoulders forwards and backwards, which loosens your neck and shoulders.  chair twist  this is something I already do but will definitely continue turning in your chair from side to side in order to stretch and pop your back.  https://hbr.org/2015/12/6-yoga-exercises-you-wont-be-embarrassed-to-do-at-your-desk?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=harvardbiz Chair twist picture

I have never even heard of DuckDuckGo before this tech tip. It was super cool! It was much different than Google, but I did like having something different. Below, I have a list of pros and a list of cons. Thanks for the tip! Pros: This does not keep track of your personal information like google does.  I loved the beginning little pop-up that gave 3 quick facts about DDG.  They made it very easy to add to chrome as an extension.  It came up with most of the same results as Google.  Cons:  It's over 10 years old and I haven't heard of it- they are not doing a great job at getting their name out (or maybe I live under a rock).  I could not think of anymore cons! yay DDG.