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Steven — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:20:50 -0700

EMP

For me the trip to EMP was a pleasant experience. I got to know people that I never talked to before, and I got to know people better that I know beforehand. I was in awe of the guitar sculpture at the beginning of the day, I have always wanted to make something like that, not necessarily guitars, and have never done it. When I saw that I was amazed that someone could actually do something like that and make it look so beautiful and majestic. For the entire I day I spent walking around with one classmate in particular and while checking the exhibits out we talked about other things, like the movies that we liked, what science fiction things we were into, and a common video game we play. Before this day I really had not talked to this classmate and probably never would. I am the type of person who likes to stay within my own little group and I made a snap decision that this classmate would not have fit in, and after talking with him I realized that I was wrong. He would have fit in great with my social group if I had just giving him the chance but I had made a decision before talking to him that he would not, I was glad that this trip let me have the chance to be proven wrong.

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Steven — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:55:26 -0700

A Beautiful Day

For my day I decided that there were certain things that I wanted to get done.

I wanted to make some thing
I wanted to teach someone how to do something
I wanted to help someone
I wanted to learn something new
I wanted to be stress free

For the wanting to make something I got my chance as soon as I went to work. I found out that that there was an art project going on with the children at work and I decided that I would join in on what they were making; I had not been able to express my artistic side for awhile.

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Beth — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 09:34:13 -0700

Positive Psychology

ARCHIVE - forgiveness

Taurell Reboulet — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 12:37:49 -0800

Forgiveness I spent quite some time trying to come up with some one that had hurt me and needed forgiving. I couldn’t, I don’t know if its because I don’t hold on to stuff or I have great people in my life all I know is I could not think of a single person that needed to be forgiven.

ARCHIVE - Forgiveness

Walter L. Harris — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 10:27:28 -0800

I had to think about this one for awhile, because the first one that I would have to forgive would be myself. I realized that as I have grown in my life everything that has happened to me was because of my decisions. Forgiveness is something that you do when you have been wronged by someone, but how can you be wronged by anyone when you have the ability to choose how you deal with what they have done or you have perceived that they have done to you. This means that emotions play a major part in this and you can control your emotions and reactions.

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Jeremy H. — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:43:25 -0800

Forgiveness

I struggled terribly with this exercise. I just couldn’t think of any one person that I would like to “forgive” for what they have done. I can’t stand the fact that we live in a world of victims and that everybody perceives themselves as the victim and never the perpetrator. I’m in no way suggesting that this exercise isn’t useful, but I just didn’t have any obvious person to forgive. In an effort to still use the idea of forgiveness, I altered the activity slightly.

ARCHIVE - EMP

Taurell Reboulet — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:02:05 -0800

My EMP experience was really great. I was very optimistic even before the field trip had even started. I had been to the EMP before but it had been quite awhile since I had gone. Which made this trip seem almost new. I started the day off by getting up and looking outside to see what the weather looked like and to see if I needed a jacket, I couldn’t tell by just stepping outside so I checked the weather report and it said it would be sunny and warm, so I went with a semi warm outfit of a vest and long sleeved shirt. Then I headed to Starbucks to get my day kick started. From Starbucks I headed strait to school, I got there just as every one was starting to decide where they were going to sit, I jumped on it and got in the back of the bigger van with the majority of the class.

ARCHIVE - Beautiful day

Taurell Reboulet — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 17:24:50 -0800

A beautiful day When I started this assignment the first thing I did was think about what would my percent beautiful day actually entail. After thinking about it long and hard I decided it would be just about anything with my girlfriend. My day started off with sleeping in late with my girlfriend, reading, talk and hanging out in bed till we wanted to get out of bed. Then we went and had a huge breakfast in a nice restaurant, the works eggs, bacon and hash browns. After breakfast we spent the afternoon on a drive around the Olympia cost and outer laying areas one of the nicest drives I’ve done in the awhile.

ARCHIVE - Forgiveness

Beth — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:48:39 -0800

Positive Psychology

Instructor: Dr Mark Hurst, Winter 2007/08

Student: Elizabeth Lahren, A00092341

Forgiveness

ARCHIVE - forgiveness

Lacey — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 13:59:39 -0800

Over the past year I have been focusing on coming to terms with my past, which has involved forgiving the wrong that I felt had been done to me. For this activity I was not able to go through the process again because I guess you could say I am up to date on my forgiving, but I still feel close to the process of forgiving my daughters father so I will write about that.

Recalling the hurt was easy for me, I was unable to deny the hurt because it was an everyday part of my life (my daughter), but I did suffer from stomach ulcers and extreme anxiety for over 2 years until I was able to finally accept the reality of the situation and stop blaming myself for the entire situation.