KI Perspectives

On July 17th, 2010,  an inter-generational meeting was held at the KI EcoCenter . During this weekly meeting which is held every Saturday at eleven 0′clock of  members of the center and the  ranging from ages 14 to 67, a discussion was held over an article The Mind To Lead by Suzanne Kryder.  The article was about the sciences of leadership dealing with the brain, state of mind, and memory and incorporating those into your daily routine and the way you think. Going around the table, each member gave what they absorbed from reading the article. Here are a few statements from the college members of the community.

Arie, a graduate of Ivy Tech in web design, who works in her profession as the web designer at the KI EcoCenter, gave us a piece of the article which she found quite intriguing.

“A top-down is when your memory and past experiences prevents you from learning in your current experience. ”

Menelik, the director of the Eco Camp held at the KI EcoCenter and also a senior at IUPUI majoring in psychology also shared what he absorbed.

“A bottom-up experience is realizing the situation for what it is and being mindful of it. It is to pay attention to the ideas that you produce and to be conscious of your thoughts. In an example from the article, a woman spilled milk all over important papers. At first, she was angry and frustrated with herself, but because she was conscious of her experiences, she was able to control her anger and laugh at her angry thoughts. I think that’s key to true consciousness.”

Jerome Lawrence, a student at Ivy Tech and also the after school director at the KI EcoCenter, absorbed this:

” People need to live life in the moment. By not living in the present and in the past (in memories and past experiences) or in the future (plans and events for the future), people miss out on lessons and experiences in life.

Although it is fantastic that they could absorb so much from an article, the true remarkableness is that these people, young and old, are able to, at 11:00 on a Saturday morning, come together to discuss articles and community related topics. Truly, the KI EcoCenter has quite an impact on its community.

Today at work we started a little interview for the investigation of community assets in the KI EcoCenter neighborhood.Along with me and Tanisha, Dejanae and Kai accompanied us.Mrs.Paulet thought it would be a great idea to walk down to the Fallcreek school, where they have a camp program for little girls called Girls Inc to have a little interview over what they do and how can little girls get involved with their organization.The camp did not do our interview because they was unsure if their organization would allow it.When we got back to the center Mrs.Paulet called their office to speak with a director to see if  they would be able to do an interview with us.Unfortunately they are not permitted to do any interviews with anyone.Even though we wasn’t able to do the interview Dejanae and Kai kept their questions just in case things changed with the comopany’s decision in the future.After all of the that I took a little bit of footage of the boys having their chess tournament.Other than that today was a pretty koo day and I look forward to next week.

Today was a good day Shanice and I both got here a little late. We went down to the Girls Inc. and tried to get an interview with the people there with Ms. Paulette, Shanice, Dejanae, and Kai. Unfortunately, we were unable to get the interview but maybe next week. Later the kids came back and had there Chess tournament and they seem pretty excited that they get money and extra points!!!! Today was a lade-back quick day

Today we met with Pat Patterson. He came and talked with us and asked questions about our experience here and what will we get out of it. Then we ate pizza and i helped Shanice with her video and we also transported the videos from the camera to the computer. Lastly, we recorded a little bit. Today was a very hot day but it was laid-back as well.

Today at work we had a meeting with Pat Patterson.He came at 1 to talk to me and Tanisha about our experiences here at the KI EcoCenter.He basically asked us what is it we do here and what we learned.We talked about the knowlege that we have gained during our time spent here as interns.He also talked to us about whether or not we had a good time and enjoyed our experiences here.I can pretty much say that I have learned a lot from all the things that I’ve did here.Everything that they tought me was useful.I came here expecting to get a feel of  how it is to be on camera and I did along with a bonus of learning how things work behind the scenes of being on camera.So now I have knowlege of how to do both things which is good.After the meeting with Pat Patterson we ate then I started working on my video recap of week 4.I completed the recap for week 4 so starting tomorrow I will begin working on my 9 minute video for our final project here at the Ki EcoCenter.

I started off today with having an open discussion with a guest.We all sat arond and introduced ourself along with what we are here for.After the discussion we ate then got back to working.The first thing I did was start finishing the editing for my third video.It took longer than what I thought because at first I couldn’t find my video or remember where I saved it at.Once I found it,I started addind and clipping a few parts.My video had to be around at least ten minutes so I had to make sure I had enough footage.After the hard part was done I pretty much just had a little work to do to it,which was go find a song to add to it.Finding a song is sometimes hard because you dont know what to pick that will sound right with what the video is over.Luckly I found a good song,which is Pretty Boy Swagg by Soulja Boy.I mean it really doesn’t go with the video but its a nice song that alot of  people like.Instead of the words playing I got the instrumental version.Overall I think  I’m doing a good job an I feel like progressing just fine.The things I’m doing are thing that I expected to do and I feel like I’m learning alot about it which is very useful.Also one of our projects that I look forward to this week is interviewing the people here at the center.To me it’s fun getting to ask questions and find out interesting things about someone you didn’t know at all.Another project were doing is filming a story that has to be nine minutes long.In the video we have to tell a story about something or someone.So I think I will enjoy this because it gives me a chance to get to know everyone a little better.So thats what I look forward to this week.

Today was just a day. Shanice and I interviewed the Garden Crew! They talked about what they enjoy and learn during the two hours a day. We also talked about what are their plans for the garden. Later Aaron interviewed us and asked us how did we come about this place. Then i started on my new 10 minute video. I’m almost done I just have to make a little more adjustments and add music. Then we ate hot dogs and chatted with Mrs. Dorothy. Today was an easy going day!