Personality Type

During this week in class we had to start our first project were we tied Multiculturism into the Community. I choose to talk about what its like being in a multicultural family and how we fit in where we live. Another thing that we were asked to do specifically for this week’s blog, was our teacher asked us to take a personality type quiz. The Quiz is called “The Insight Game,” and basically it asks you a long line of different questions pertaining to how you see yourself. The game was played with electronic cards in which you would read both sides of the card and decide from the two options given, what would be the answer to best describe yourself. Personally during the game/quiz I was frustrated with not having the option to choose both or none of the choices given. Making it to where you only have two options is good but there are times were you truly resemble both answers so by forcing you to choose one or the other to me was a false representation of my personality for those questions. Nevertheless my personality type was ENFP which are considered to be open minded and caring. For the most part I felt like this personality type was me in a nut shell, but just not exactly. Then again I don’t think anything can be exact when it comes to people.

The Martin Luther King Jr. Concert

For class we were required to participate in a multicultural activity, all in honor of Unity week. The activity that I chose to participate in was The Martin Luther King Jr. Concert. This concert was held in Sursa hall, which is newly completed music hall on campus. As I sat through the performances, I began to realize how much different cultures were incorporated in the ensemble. There were Asian performers singing in their own language, and even though I couldn’t understand what they were saying I really liked how their music spoke for them. Whether it was sad, happy, or silly, for the most part you could understand. Aside from the Asian performers, there were a couple of instrumental pieces and choir contributions. Also in between the performances there were excerpts from an interview on the retractable screen.
These interviews were mainly with people who lived during the Civil Rights Era in Muncie. It was interesting to see how things have and haven’t changed when it comes to segregation. To go a little more in depth about, a few of the people interviewed spoke of how they had to move to a certain part of town just because of their ethnicity, and also how going to school during that time was. A lady (whose name escapes me) was an honor student who was never recognized for her academic achievements, even though people who were ranked in front of and behind her in class rankings were acknowledged. Even now I still see segregation of sorts even on Ball State campus. Being that I am part African American, I am still counted as a African American. So those interviews were intriguing in the sense that now I know that Muncie (being such a tiny city so to speak) is a bit behind in becoming culturally diverse.
Some of things that shocked me when I was at the concert were how many people of different cultures seemed to be there. Even more shocking was how many people got into the spirit of the evening. People got up and clapped their hands if the performances moved them to and many people bobbed their heads to the music. My favorite performance of the night besides the instrumentals (which I really liked) was the Voices of Triumph Choir, because a few of my friends were performing and I had no idea. It was a nice surprise and they were really good. All the music by the various performers, gave me goose bumps and I normally only get goose bumps when the music is really good and sort of speaks to me. The whole was really great in the sense that there was good music, a good audience and it was all in celebration of a great man.

New Semester

So this was the first week back at school in the new Semester. This is the beginning of a new English class, and it is the next level up which is 102. This week started as if last semester had never ended or at least that’s what it felt like for the most part. We have only a few new classmates and are missing a few of the old; on top of that we began immediately working on something we had done last semester. Even our syllabus is very similar to the old one. We were asked to revise and shorten our student made protocols for class from last semester. When doing so many of my fellow classmates and I discovered we had repeated ourselves quite a few times, so we had to try and say the same things but in less words to try and fit the protocols on one page instead of three. We had a lot of group work and were briefed on what is expected of us in the weeks to come. We were supposed to pick an activity in which to participate in outside of the classroom. The first activity that was coming up was the Martin Luther King Jr. Concert in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day happening the following Monday. Anyways after picking a activity we were asked to post what we picked and be prepared to blog about it during the week our activity took place. I choose to go to the Martin Luther King Jr. Concert, which I will be blogging about next week.