Yesterday is gone

Since I have started this study, most people ask me to ‘invent’ something. Most women want a robot that cleans the house. My mom has been asking for that, for about 17 years now. The leaves are falling from the trees. Now that it’s autumn again,  people want a weather machine against the cold. My musical friends want a new instrument, and my sailing friends would really like a faster boat. I need to invent a disposable chair, a screen you can bring everywhere so you can always see pink elephants dancing around (don’t even ask from who I got that), a thing that would stop people from forgetting their appointments (do you people ever look in your diary?) and fast…. if you please. I haven’t even started about how many people asked me about travelling through time. But apparently it’s a topic that lots of people think about a lot. They have a clear time in mind they want to go to in the past or they just want to go to ‘what used to be’. Or even worse: people want to be away from now but also from the past which leaves just the future… I have to tell something to those of you who are thinking these things:

Yesterday is past, tomorrow jet to come. Today is a gift that’s why it’s called the present.

A new world

There are many stories about his life. Even his son didn’t know for sure who Cristopher Columbus was. He could have been Italian, or Spanish. It’s possible that he had a high status in society, or not. He could have been a pirate like Jack Sparrow, or he was really civilized. Endless possibilities about the life of just one man. Why all these questions? Well, I can tell you they celebrate the day today in America. Today it’s the twelfth of October. It is a special day today. Besides that the twelfth of October won’t be on a Tuesday any time soon and certainly not with this weather this is the day that Columbus found America. Columbus is someone I see as one of the first CreaTers. He might not have created something, but he was brave enough to start to discover. I think we all need our first Columbus-moment. The first journey to the unknown. The first answers to ourselves and then the first quest and the first thing we can discover all by our self. The only answers we have are: he was born someday, he has found America and then someday after that he died. But I bet he knows the rest of the story.

The End?

What happened here? We don’t have any We create identity courses any more. That’s kind of strange. We’re getting along with our interactive movie. That’s going to be quite nice. And I almost think we have an identity now as a group. We made one ourselves. That feels like an accomplishment. And for myself… I know a new part of my identity now. One that I wasn’t familiar with. I found that it calms me when I write my thoughts about something down. I am not a person who just gives her thoughts to everybody. Especially when you don’t ask for it. This makes it harder for me to explain what I am thinking.  Simply because there is so much to tell. But for myself it’s really nice to have these things written down. I understand myself better and I can read it again and say hey I missed a point right there, or that was really stupid to think of me. And my family likes my blog as well. I was surprised by this. They don’t really mind reading my blog, right??  So I am so sorry, but I am not going to stop blogging. In fact I already know what my next blog is going to be about :D Perhaps on Friday. After assignment 13.  To be continued. 

Ps Have a look at the logo’s guys. They’re really nice. You’re a CreaTer or you’re not. And these are ;-)  https://sites.google.com/site/create10ca1site/organisation-exhibit

You gotta love Technology!

So a new blog more in the direction of technology. I think technology is important in this society. First of all cause EVERY single thing is made by, powered by, or still running because of technology. I can’t think of anything anymore that is not somehow connected to technology. There for technology must be important.. Right? Technology is important for me because besides the fact that I use it like every other consumer, I love to find out how things work. The thing is: I am curious. And wherever  people don’t really like at least a thousand questions about live life and love, technology doesn’t really mind. It answers all questions you can think of:

Why is the sky blue? A clear cloudless day-time sky is blue because molecules in the air scatter blue light from the sun more than they scatter red light.  When we look towards the sun at sunset, we see red and orange colors because the blue light has been scattered out and away from the line of sight.

What’s the answer to the ultimate question? 42

What’s the ultimate question? Go find out yourself

Technology is like written in stone. It’s there and it can be changed but how ever you would want to change it, it always comes down to the same thing: Technology listens to you if you listen to technology, and technology answers every question as long you ask the questions.  You gotta love Technology!

Multitasking, crying and coffee

Today I decided to start early. Oke confess, I didn't really decided, just happened. But this means I have some more time than I expected. I just did my first sessions of sketching and crying for graphic design. It was mostly crying though. We have to make a postcard about CreaTe and the advice of the teacher was to sketch cry and doubt. I am sure the doubting will come just 5 minutes before I have to present it. Because right now I am just in a sketching/crying stage. Which is ok. I just don’t really like the crying part. I guess it’s just part of the deal. And right now I am mentally preparing for another class of Introduction to computer science, while writing a blog, and listening to bad music. Gotta keep practicing some multitasking skills, right? Some people might think that multitasking is a word invented for our parents so they won’t have a clue what we’re talking about but it’s actually quite easy. And yes listening is hard to combine with something else but if you don’t do communicating stuff multitasking is a piece of cake. Just got to practice. I think we’re going to have a really nice lecture today cause I have no idea what it is about. That makes it easier to stay focused if you don’t have a clue what the teacher is going to talk about. But perhaps some more coffee would help as well.

Peppernoten

Today we introduced peppernoten to some of our foreign fellow students. For those of you who don’t understand, peppernoten is an English word that didn’t exist until 5 seconds ago. It’s a dutch thing we would say but don’t worry I’ll explain. Sinterklaas is something like Santa Claus only Sinterklaas was there first. He lives now for a more than a hundred years in Spain with Black Piet, cause he's having trouble with his rheumatism. Actually my aunt lived for a while next to him but he always seemed to be on holiday when we were there. More importantly he celebrates his B-day (on the 5^th of December) by giving presents to ALL the children in the country.  Of course this is a time of candy and sweets for the good children and it’s not so nice for the other children. I can’t remember the last time a child has been punished around this festival but it happened in the old days I guess. For the older more adult children and adults to it’s nice because we send each other poems to discuss the year and of course eat sweets. And peppernoten are the sweets that belong to this festival. Most foreign people think it’s dog food. But my foreign friends actually liked it. The point of this blog?? Differences are there until you ask and there for make them disappear. So make them disappear. It's not so hard.

Connecting or disconnecting?

The hours in the cafeteria are quite productive. If you would look at us from a distant you would think that we were doing absolutely nothing. Which in fact isn’t the case today. You would think it wouldn’t be possible but the main thing we did in the break today was eating. As it is supposed to be you would think but I think it is strange. Because I don’t know what the rest of my fellow students did in the break. Within 5 minutes we had a big group of CreaTers sitting here. And it only took another 5 minutes to have on almost every single one of their laps a laptop warming their legs. Now this is possible. We did some bug stuff this morning in introduction to computer science but still. Why is everyone so eager to escape from this place. Doesn’t that sound strange to you to? We need just this much of spear time and immediately we are just gone. And because we can’t run that fast to be in time back here we just pull out our laptop or our mobile phone to connect with the outside world and, of course, disconnect with reality.