Blog 9

1) What are you most stressed-out with at the moment? Why? Is your body re-acting to this stress? Devise a plan to deal with it.
~I am most stressed about the fact that i did not get all of the classes i wanted. I am also most stressed about the fact that there are a lot of people trying to get into the radiography program, like me, and there are so few spots. Its very nerve racking the odds of actually getting into the program. So i have been stressing a lot about that, and the huge anatomy test we have. Which are always nerve racking until after we take it then i calm down but till then i am way nervous. My body is reacting by being tired, my stomachs always hurting, and i'm just like feeling the stress so i'm always worried. I plan to deal with it by taking the anatomy test, so that worry will be gone, by realizing that as long as i try my hardest, and do everything that i am supposed to , theres nothing more i can do about getting into the radiography program. I am going to deal with the stress about not getting all of my classes by talking to my advisor to see if there's a way to talk to the teacher to try and get into the class, and by checking it to see if people drop the class, and finally by checking local community colleges down home by mean to try and take that class during the summer.
2) FFN: Chapter 8 / This is a creative writing exercise! Read the following scenario and finish it based on your knowledge after reading Chapter 8. You are "Raul" and have just immigrated to the American West illegally from Mexico. You brought your wife and two young children with you on a frightening and expensive 4-day journey in the back of a beat-up truck to arrive in Texas. You can't find work there and Border Patrol is cracking down, so you decide to migrate north a bit where you have relatives in Colorado. You are hired on the spot by ConAgra to work in one of their "beef processing" plants. -Describe in sensory detail your place of employment. (What's it look like, what is going on, how do people act, what do you wear, what is your job? etc..)-How much $$$ do you earn?-How do your days go? What are your work hours and what do you do after work?-Where do you live, what do you live in, how is your quality of life?
~The place i work is full of machinary, and is a big building, there are many people here who look to be of the same ethnic background of me, they are doing there jobs quickly without seeming to think of how dangerous the job is. They are wearing normal clothes not anything different than they would in normal life and not anything that would protect them. Our job is to slice meat fast. We earn a dollar a day, which is crappy money considering how dangerous our job is. We work 12 hour shifts constantly and only cutting meat. After work i am tired so i go to bed since i have to get up early to be back to work. I live in a incredibly tiny house an hour from work that is run down and in poor shape. Our quality of life is poor since there is hardly any food or anything in our small house.