3rd encounter project

I was unable to attend a live concert like suggested in the general guidelines. What I did do though is last weekend I got a new vehicle, with that vehicle XM radio came with it. I started going through all the stations and without lying to you I found two of my favorite stations. One of my favorites is the Bluegrass channel. There are not a lot of words being said, but instead you listen to a lot of calming instruments. My top favorite station is the Folk station. Everyone time someone gets into the car I have to change it, because no one else likes it, but when it’s just me in the car I never change the channel. I feel that the folk music is very relaxing. I love listening to all the instruments that other wise I usually would not hear in normal American music (aka rap, country, rock, etc.). I also feel that the folk music is very simple. When you listen to the words it is really easy to hear understand what they are singing about. To me the music sounds like people are having a party in their backyard and there are no computers, speaker, micro-phones, etc. It feels like it is a group of people sitting around singing and playing their instruments and having a good time. With the folk music I can hear everything that is going on, unlike the normal music I listen to, that is over done and a lot of the music and lyrics are drowned out by technology. When listening to this music I feel like I’m in the mountains of the Carolina’s having a cook out and relaxing. It is just really relaxing and calming music to me. I was really excited when I found this station and it is programmed as my number one setting. Also what I realized is with the folk music, there isn’t that great of singing voices, but no one cares. It sounds like their just telling a story of their life with adding musical instruments that I’m not normally use to. I was listening the other day and following the story of the song, and the song was simply about farming the land. The song was about the average day of the farmer. The singer talked about getting up early working the land. He talked about his kids, wife, and animals. That was simply it. I guess what I really get out of this music is it simple, nothing complex about it. This writing is regard to my third encounter project.

Chapter three reflection

While wondering what I was going to write about, I came to the conclusion that I sound like the stereotypical athlete. All of my writings have been somehow related to my sport. Once again though this reflection is going to deal with wrestling, sadly enough wrestling is my life, and pretty much all I do. With wrestling there are a lot of traditions that we try to keep a live and a lot of traditions that we create and hope that they continue on, through out the years. Also there are traditions that we start and haven’t been carried on. One of our wrestling team’s longest standing traditions is the annual Hog Roast. Every year since the early 90’s our team has put on a Hog Roast in late April. The hog roast is put on to celebrate a long hard wrestling season. At this time our season is over and we can relax for a little while. We really go all out for this party. We get T-shirts made for the event, glasses. We also try to set the record each year for roasting the largest pig. It is our wrestling team’s largest party every year and pretty well known through out IU.

A tradition that we started but didn’t catch and eventually died off and is only talked about was created by my class in the dorms. We were a close class and we created this group called “Team Unity”. We would dare each other to do extreme things and if one would accomplish the dare they were added to team unity. We actually created a face book group and everything for it. Eventually we got made fun of for making it and the tradition started and ended with us. Even though one failed there has been more that I’m sure will continue on.

Since I have been here at IU I have participated in several wrestling traditions each. When I was a freshman the Frank Sinatra party was created and has still been carried on. Also freshman induction party is still being carried on. This one consists of another party where the entire freshmen each have to bring at least five friends to the party. This helps them get out and socialize with others and it helps give wrestling a good name. Also the Annual Hog Roast party I have attended every year. IU wrestling has had and have several traditions.

2nd peer comment

I looked at several of my classmates blogs. I was really searching for a good joke, that someone in our class had written about in one of their encounter projects. I finally ran across a good one that I got a kick out of. It was from folkamania and he had written about a joke he heard from one of his friends. Folkamania had mention that he is a Notre Dame and is considered an honorary irish man. He felt that the joke he had heard was mabe a little more funny to him, due to the fact that it kind of hit home for him. As Notre Dame fan, the joke talked about and Irish man and heavy drinking, which im guessing may have hit home for Folkamania. I would also have to agree with folkamania asessement, I also believe it is funny, because of the stereotype of Irish and their heavy drinking. Again I would like to say that this was a good joke and I used several times after reading it.

Second Encounter Project "Restaurant Review"

Well this happen to come in handy this for this weeks encounter project. As you already know I am a wrestler and we are currently starting our wrestling season. Well this means that I must give up the booze, alcohol, late night “fourth meal”, frozen foods, and many more of the enjoyable things that I like to eat and drink. I recently started my diet a week ago to start getting down to my wrestling weight class. Later in this past week I started feeling low on energy and I knew it was because of my calorie intake. Due to the way I was feeling I asked my athletic trainer what he thought that I should be eating. He had mentioned that I should try eating sushi, and then my coach had agreed with him. Well I thought to myself, I should try it, since I have never ate sushi before. Also I had remembered that you had mentioned people writing about their first encounter with sushi, because of these writing. I gathered up some teammates and we gave sushi a try last Thursday night. A bunch of us went to the sushi bar on tenth and the by-bass on 45/46. Walking into the sushi bar I was really excited. This place, being in a strange location, was actually very nice inside. We were fortunate enough to get a room to our selves, which I hear is very difficult at this place. Once we got in there and seated I soon realized this isn’t like your ordinary restaurant. First off I could not understand our waitress and I do believe that she didn’t even speak English. Second their menus are really cool. You actually mark down with pencil on the menu what you want to eat and they take your order that way. One thing that I forgot to mention is due to the fact none of us knew what to order we needed help ordering, and our waitress couldn’t help us since she didn’t speak English, and we couldn’t understand her. Well finally we figured out how to order and our food came. To my surprise the food was a lot better tasting then it looked? The food didn’t look that appetizing. I thought I was going to have a problem eating the sushi, but I had no problem at all. I actually ate some of my teammates and ended up ordering some to go. Needless to say I do not know if it gave me more energy, but I do know that I will be eating sushi more often. I am really glad that I came out of my box and finally gave sushi a chance, because to my surprise it was very enjoyable. This post is in reference to my second encounter project about one of my recent restaurant reviews.