Nothing

Our teacher assigned out class a homework assignment that we had to do nothing. Everyone was confused at first and was asking a lot of question and all he told was just do nothing, don't think, don't talk to anyone, don't move, just do nothing. I decided I was going to do my nothing assignment in the lunch room and at first it was so hard. I could not keep still and wanted to do something. It took me about six minutes to finally do nothing and after I was done, I kept thinking how our society never lets us do nothing. We are always suppose to be doing something and it is even against the law (loitering). I am happy that I did this assignment because I actually got something out of it.

Tuesday with Morrie - Work

I feel like that everyone is so stressed about success because our whole lives we have been told by everyone to work hard and get good grades. There are different ways of being successful, being successful for someone could be to have a healthy family and happiness. But our whole lives we have been taught that success is going to school to get a good job and then grow up to have a good paying job. But which one is truly success? Because success could mean so many different things to different people.

Norms

Our sociology teacher was talking about how we need to recognize norms in cross culture communication because what might mean something to us, might mean something completely different to another group of people. Our teacher showed my class pictures of President Bush holding hands with the King of Saudi Arabia and immediately everyone started to laugh. But if we were in Saudi Arabia not one person in the class would be laughing because its normal there. To us it looks funny but we need to watch out because if we don't acknowledge the differences, we could offend a culture.