Dinning Center Foods..

   After being here for only about two months, I'm starting to notice one thing..all the food in the dinning centers is starting to taste the same.  I can't complain and say that it's bad food, because it's not, there's just always the same options.  After eating the same thing day in and day out, it's all mushing together and tasting the same.  All the dinning centers basically have the same options, so there's no escaping it!

  Some advice that I could give about eating a variety of foods:

1. Don't eat pizza every day, it's there every day anyway!

2. Take advantage of the options that change every day.  They're usually the best tasting!

3.  Try new things.  Some things that don't look so good, actually taste really good.  If you don't like what you've selected, you can always grab something else.

4.  Try selecting different beverage as well.  Especially if you drink a lot of pop, it makes you feel bloated.  It's nice to have juice or milk.

5.  Try different salad dressings! The dinning centers have everything to make a great salad, but some people strictly only eat one type of dressing.  If you try new dressings, it's like eating a completely different salad.


*These are just some helpful hints to help someone who is trying to keep a variety in their diet if they're limited to the dinning centers like me. :)

80 breakfasts

http://80breakfasts.blogspot.com/

  This is a link to a breakfast foods blog.  I really liked how this blogger took advantage of the different types of things you could do with font such as, bolding, underlining, and italics.
  She also used smilies :). These made the blog a little more interesting and cheerful. 

Buddhism and Catholics

  Tonight, I attended the Buddhism and Catholic lecture at the MU. 
  The very first thing I noticed, is they hadn't set out nearly enough chairs for everyone who showed up. They ended up bringing in a lot more chairs and moved the refreshment table back farther in the room.  When the lady stepped up to the microphone, she said she was "thrilled to see such a turnout because they were not expecting nearly this many people."  So that was good to hear, she was pretty excited.
  Then, a man who practiced Buddhism and was a priest came up and talked about his experiences, what it means to Buddhists, and some of the main things these faiths do.  He started with about three minutes of just pure silence. During this entire time I was constantly swallowing trying not to cough and sneeze, it was pretty hard.  After the silence, we all had to bow the upper half of our body.  "Silence is a deeper way of learning", the man said.  I didn't really agree with this. I don't know what you could possibly learn by just sitting there.  Sure, it's a way to think about things, but I didn't understand why 100 people would meet to just sit in silence.  He said that he has been to meetings where they sit in silence for two hours.  That just seems like a waste of time to me.  You may as well sit in the comfort of you own home and be silent.

  The image below is what I have always pictured when I thought of Buddhism, the large Chinese man.  I thought that Buddhism was something that you had to be born into, it was interesting to hear I was completely wrong..

  The man mainly focused on the topic of Buddhism, the only Catholic thing he mentioned was that he was a preist..

"I will buy you a new life"

  My first reaction to the documentary about low wage workers was sorrow because I didn't like to see them struggle so badly, then I was happy that I'm here at college trying to make a better life for myself.  The girl who went to college and got a two year degree really improved life for her and her children.  It was also an eye opener as to how things really are for people who receive food stamps and governmental checks.  People usually think that people who receive those types of things are just lazy, the film portrayed that they're not at all lazy, they just simply can't make ends meet. 

  This documentary was similar to Nickle and Dimed because it was all about low income workers and their struggles.  It was also much different because Barbara could have just went back to her high-class life at any moment in time, where these people couldn't. Life was real for these people. They didn't have a saving account with thousands of dollars in it.  They couldn't just snap their fingers and be living a better life. 

This song was used a lot in the documentary! It's a cheery way to think of being broke..sort of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYs4aqiewOI