Reflection 5

14 March 2013

Today we discussed the ending of the book and its last 5 chapters. How Morrie and Mitch had a total of thirteen meeting and were finally able to say goodbye. I found out how it was Morrie idea to write the book as their last project and I admire how Morrie always had time to meet with Mitch and was able to do one last interview. I also enjoyed reading the part where Mitch finally started to value the world. After he saw his teacher die he became for consient and did everything to stay in contact with his brother. Finally, Morrie couldn't move from his bed and he was completely dependent, he was in coma for two days and when everybody left the room he took his last breath. Mitch thought that Morrie had specifically died that way, so no one would watch him die. One of the last things I learned was: Morrie remembered Mitch but Mitch didn’t remember Morrie becaues Mitch called Morrie and said: “Hello I am Mitch and I don’t know if you remeber me but I was one of your students in the 1970’s?” and Morrie responded: “Why didn’t you call me coach?” and that Morrie died on a Tuesday. I also liked how Mitch did uncomfortable thing just for his friend. At the beginning he was not comfortable with Morrie sickness but at the end he started to help by patting his back so that he could be close with him. After finishing this book I had two final questions, they were--Would Mitch had met with Morrie if he had not seen him in the TV interview? Would Morrie have tried to contact him? and Did Morrie die coincidentally on a Tuesday or did he hold on until that day?

After we finished the book talk, we started to work in our commercial planning agency. We created the outline for our commercial about my choice/following your passion so we could rapidly start filming. Jenny also said that she could film the my choice activities in her my choice, photography. We decided that we would film some my choice activities and say how here in FDR we follow our different passions freely. We also started to discuss whether we should film ourselves for the trash commercials or different people who left behind trash and should we ask permission or not. We were able to finish what we had on our calendar today and I think we are working rather good as a group. We all had read our part of the book and discussed extensively about it getting new themes and ideas, we also discussed questions and how we thought the book ending was. I believe I am also working very good in this group. I help with my partners keep us focused and on track. I have documented all my notes into the Google Docs and have updated my blog daily. We are communicating through he Google Docs, however we do not use the Facebook group to frequently because we thing Google Docs is more organized and easier to right because if you quit it will automatically save instead of Facebook which will delete. In my commercial agency we are all working in a very good manner. We were all focused and on task and were able to finish the outline for our second commercial so we could start filming. We were able to do all the coordination and complete all the details. We are in a very good position compared to calendar and I believe we are going to be able to finish this project in the deadline. I would like to congratulate my group because we have shown exemplary cooperation and we do a great job in staying on task and we were able to outline two very good commercials.

This book helped me realize that I shouldn't wait until last minute to do thing I want to do because you don't really know when last minute is because when you realize it, it can already be to late.