Ann's Blog

(Image Information: Diversity, Pixabay ) The video I watched was Denmark's TV-2 All That We Share , which is a heartwarming video that brought people together in trying to change the way we view others. It was a video about accepting others and recognizing that we all have things in commons.  The video starts by showing different groups of people divided up based on things like class, age, and where they were from. Then a presenter asks people to step forward if what he says applies to them. He starts making random statements like "I am a step-parent" or "I am lonely," and people from different groups would step forward and create a new group. The exercise appeared to bring the participants happiness and we could see them relax as it went on. In the end, there is the realization that labeling people or grouping people together because of arbituary attributes is silly, and we judge people a lot based on these unimportant things.  One thing the video confir...

(Image Information: Sleeping Child, Pixabay ) For this learning challenge, I decided to read about sleep. I have always had a lot of sleep problems and weird sleeping habits. I dream every night and have lucid dreams every night. This leads to me waking up unrested and then wanting to nap later in the day. But even when I nap I don't get peaceful sleep. I also stay up late and occasionally stay up till morning only to take a short nap before class. These days are always unbearable and now I know why. I did not realize previously that it was so important to go to bed at the same time every night and to not eat a lot before sleeping. I work as a server in a restaurant and on weekends I usually work from 11 to 9-10 with no breaks, and when I get off I am usually hungry and exhausted so I often end up eating a big meal (my only meal of the day) right before I go to bed. I have known this is super unhealthy (yikes) but I didn't realize how much it could mess up my sleep quality...