Reflection Paper

I find it necessary to do this since a person can miss out on a lot if all you do is think about the future or not let the past go. I enjoy living by the minute without thinking of what awaits. Although, like any other person I do stress myself a lot and find myself overwhelmed with everything I am trying to balance on myself. But this song from Mark Anthony (Vivir Mi Vida) makes me enjoy life and reminds me to live by the minute and not overwhelm myself because everything comes in its time and everything will be fine. This song reminds me to live life to it's fullest just like his lyrics say “Voy a reir, voy gozar Vivir mi vida

Jason Aldean is a popular country music artist (he actually is a rock/country twist) with a crazy lifestyle and many songs to describe it. In my personal opinion I love and live by many of his songs, or as some may say “ways of life.” In 2010 Aldean released one of my favorite albums (My Kind of Party) which included Days Like These. The chorus to this tune reads, “Life is short, let's go live it; Ain't no time for wasting time; Days like these ‒ they go by way too fast; Yeah, days like these ‒ you want to make them last.” I find this to be my mindset through every day because every day is not promised. A

Science Instructional Analysis and Methods class has afforded me countless learning experiences which I have taken into my intern classroom. I have several take away for this fall’s science methods course. The first being, in Methods class I learned to work in distinct groups of with peers of various levels. My peers who are experiencing classroom teaching for the first time and the graduate interns. Surprisingly, I learned from working with both of these groups. From the graduate level students, I was able to actually make a connection with the content we read about in our text and experiences I had everyday in internship. I appreciate the opportunity, as I felt safe and free to ask questions about the experiences they had in teaching science. I commend you on the way you had broken up the class groups, and afforded us to work with different groups. During this process, I feel I have started to find my voice as a professional. This opportunity allowed me to be more confident to voice my ideas to the teachers I worked with in internship, as I contribute to my PLC group.

I always grew up wondering, I don’t want life to change! I always thought that life was a perfectly planned event. I wake up, do this, go there, and eat that. But little did I know that my life would have a new, and very big change. Wonderfully big. I was only at the tender age of nine when my parents bought me the horrible news, or so I thought at the time. But life changed. Wonderfully. I remember the exact words.

Lastly, Chapman illustrates that even though a journey may not have given you what you thought it would, it will often bring newfound maturity, sense of reality and greater understanding of life. Throughout the whole song, the persona is shown as being very determined, and

Today I see myself differently than when I was a toddler. There are good and bad events that have shaped me into the person I am now. Good and bad things happen to everyone; although maybe not the same events that have occurred in my life or in the order that they have happened. These songs that I have picked, paint a picture of the past events or feelings I have had in my life.

For me this song is more than just a good song with some great beats, it has been a part of my life for every obstacle I have faced thus far. It has given me the joy in life, the stress reliever I have always needed, and to a degree it outlines several of the things I have accomplished because of the small memories I have with this song. Every time this song plays, I remember happy times, which in turn clams me down and creates an environment for me to be able to grow as a person and a

lyrics and melody are often based on a life lesson with a broad look at life as a whole. In the song

The day I turned 17 I thought I had my life planned out. I had counted on graduating early and moving to New York City. Overall in my life I was told to make a plan and stick to it, I got caught up in living in the future and forgot to think about the present. Senior year was supposed to be easy and fly by, and it did, but I wasn’t happy with the outcome. As the end of my last semester in high school approached I found myself dreading it and kept asking myself “this is it?”.

I have always really resonated with the quote “Life is a journey, not a destination” –Ralph Waldo Emerson. I am learning and seeing more now that things will get better. I am starting to appreciate the small things that can bring light to my day or entire week. The things that make me the happiest also influence me the most.

“In order for your life to be great, you must first learn to appreciate it.” This is what Keith Urban’s song “ Gone tomorrow, Here Today ” is about. I realized the true meaning of this at my first concert that I attended with my grandparents and my sister. Life is all about accepting what is gone, and making the best out of what you have left. During this concert, I felt a connection with Keith Urban, and I realized that I needed to spend every possible moment with my family, because one day I could blink and it would all be gone.

It may seem out of the ordinary for someone like me to relate my entire life to a rap song, but it has been the case for several years. Specific lyrics ringing through my head whenever those moments come to me. A motto that spirals into a message of questioning, and wondering to life and the decisions behind it. A song that makes me reassure my decisions, marking that this is my one chance and that, I got to make the most out of it with the risks I take. It’s a whimsical sense of wondering in shallow pools of optimism on the what if’s involved. Did I do the right thing? What if I didn’t? It’s all apart of the mental checklist that flows like a creek in the forest of my mind. Overall, my life isn't defined by the shortcuts I take, but instead

The song, “Don’t Stop Believin’” by Journey, represents me in many ways. The song represents having to move on to make things happen in life. The song follows and girl and a boy who leave home and are trying to make it in the music industry. The lyrics talk about how you should never stop believing that you can accomplish your dreams even when you hit hard challenges. “Some will win, some will lose … Don’t stop believin’ hold on to the feeling.”

As I take a look back on my life, I realize how great it has truly been. I had an absolutely amazing childhood and I am beyond blessed for it. I grew up in a home with two loving parents that have been with me through it all and now of days that is something to be truly thankful for. My parents taught me to strive to be anything that I wanted and that I could be anything that I set my mind to. These dreams changed throughout my life as I grew older and as I grew into the person that I am today.

Furthermore, I believe this song can help represent me due to the fact that I still think about others when I have an insignificant problem. I live in Canada, an affluent, developed, and free