Event #2 Open House

November 8, 2014 was when the open house event took pace. It took place in the Murray center and to be honest this was my first time ever going. I had never gone or been to an open house in my life before. For me I thought there was a lot of people and it looked pretty full and great but then while talking to the other youth development members, they told me that this was not as packed as other years and that baffled me. But there was definately a lot going on, we had tours and different lectures on the different programs ric offer. Even I was able to to speak about Youth development in one of the lectures which was awesome. This helped me to practice my elevator speech and the fact that we had practiced it a few weeks before really did help. I was able to draw what i needed to talk about and the important points and facts i felt were really needed to exaplain our program.

At first we had a small space on the table that was shared with education. At first it felt pretty crowded, there were so many of us and there really wasn't enough space, but once we got out own table I felt as if things had changed and we were able to be out there. I also felt that because we had our table many people seemed interested, because they wanted to know what youth development is all about and what we did. It was create trying to recruit people and telling them about our amazing program. There were so many booths out there and we definitely did our best in trying to get people to learn more about youth development. I felt that out of all the programs out there Youth development and Biology were two groups that really had a good presence in the room.

Event #1 Civilizations of Mesoamerica

The civilizations of Mesoamerica was a small event, where we started with a dialogue on what we knew of the different Mesoamerican civilizations that had existed. I realized
I didn't really know much about the different civilizations that existed, I just new of the 3 major civilazations which were the Mayan's, the Incas and the Aztecs. After the dialogue we had professor David Espinosa (this link gives you more information of the professor what he does and who he is) talk to us about the different cultures, there way of religion, the food they grew, how they survived and the different customs that had existed in each of the civilizations he had mention. They had a few things in common like the fact that each civilization worshiped a different animal. Because each animal represented different things. They all also had their own system or writing and reading. They also believed in hierarchy, where the king was their leader.
But each civilization had there differences like the Toltecs liked to shaped the heads of their leaders from birth so that the leaders looked different from everyone else.Some believed more in power, others belived more in what the lands could produce. Each had their own way of living and exsiting, although some civilizations were stronger than others, they all lived among each other.
 here is more information if interested. (this link gives more in dept explanation.)

Through this event it helped me think about today and how each of the civilizations that used to exist are similar to the way today's world is. some countries believe differently than others, yet we all work together and we learn from each other. we have a different way of running things, or believing in things but we all exist in this world and each country somehow finds a way to make things work. This makes me think about today and working with all of those different cultural boundaries, we each come from different places and are used to doing things in a different way, the things is to learn from each other and grow.  We need to learn as much as we can because as a youth worker i will be put in situations were i will be working with youth from different ages, cultural backgrounds and have different beliefs than I do. So I need to take the time to learn of these different cultural beliefs and backgrounds to lean to work with them and be able to help them in everything that they need.
This also reminded me of an article I read a while back about working with different cultures.

Btw sorry i really didn't take pictures of the actual event, i forgot while i was there.


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