Working on the seminar
A whole lot of things involved
We dont have to be selective
Trying to get to lots of hearts to follow our lead
Yet we need hearts that in the most willing to....
Its easier when they are willing
But then on the other hand ur task will be of no sense if there's no love
And love is not selective
It does all things with enthusiasm and purpose..
We will follow through suit........
We are taking baby steps as usual.... but the goal is to paint this picture clear cut...
And we pray we achieve that
Friday, July 1, 2011
Makes sense right?
I am sitting here right now
And I am thinking hard
Its hard to find words to express what is on my mind
All the thoughts coming to mind
The scenes of the past three days
The emotions cluttered in my hearts depth
Its hard to find words
But I want so bad to say something
And say it with meaning
Words are crucial, yet let me let it out anyway without care
Children walking all around, doing all sorts of menial jobs
Do they choose this?
I see some mothers too with their babies at their back,working hard
And not long ago, I was walking past some men digging a pit and one said;" charley life had O"..
I saw a drunk the other day, he had children, he had a wife and he looked really miserable on sight... immediately my thought drifted to his children..
I look around my community and I try to see what the future holds for the youth, especially young guys of my age.
They are all so ambitious , and admire that so much. But all this energy is being directed wrongly, into all sorts of quick money schemes.
A lot of questions coming through, but the one that seems most persistent is ; "why"
WHy?, what could be wrong, all these people are living without hope for a better tomorrow....
I have mates who are out school who dont know what to do with themselves... they dont know what to become.. not that they are not ambitious enough, they just dont where to direct all that energy.
I asked a couple of guys in SHS what they wanted to become 7 years from now and why. They just didnt know, and those who knew what they wanted to become just didnt know why they wanted to become that.
Its sad and I have been asking myself what is not being done, we are looking forward to educating the youth in this country to come develop this country into what.
I here rantings everyday about this issue and that issue.. about development, but what do we truly want this country to become and who and who are working towards this.
We live in a country where citizens feel they dont owe the nation nothing and the country owes them eveything, ridiculous!.
Looks like we are expecting the country to build us instead of we building the country.
We are expecting the country's natural resources to do all the magic.
Where do we want this country to go... we are building a structure and we dont even have a blue print of what we want. We copy blindy; yeah that guys building looks real cute the way they are building it, lets do something like that.
Hey, we need a dream.......
Every individual needs to know the dream and know his part in making it come to a reality
Too much talk makes no sense, I was taught it reduces productivity
Lets be real....
Lets know exactly where we want to be
Lets have a dream that will teach the people how to dream....
Yes, a dream that unifies all and makes sense to all..
Checkout a society like Sparta they knew where they were going , well its democracy, cant force people to do stuffs, but for the sake of the growth of this country, lets employ the spartans style of dreaming.
Lets know what we want this country to become and lets train the kind of mind tools we need to achieve this.
Yet, until we know where want to go and what to become we wont know which tool to employ....
Dream, dream,dream..... makes sense right.
Individually, you will unique force of your own, if only we will pick up a passion and pick a book. It will help you discover you and help others discover themselves too....
It will help you create the kind of educated picture we need to see and with you seeing that and helping others , we are on our way.
ALWAYS THINK OF A WAY YOU CAN GIVE RATHER THAN RECEIVE
And I am thinking hard
Its hard to find words to express what is on my mind
All the thoughts coming to mind
The scenes of the past three days
The emotions cluttered in my hearts depth
Its hard to find words
But I want so bad to say something
And say it with meaning
Words are crucial, yet let me let it out anyway without care
Children walking all around, doing all sorts of menial jobs
Do they choose this?
I see some mothers too with their babies at their back,working hard
And not long ago, I was walking past some men digging a pit and one said;" charley life had O"..
I saw a drunk the other day, he had children, he had a wife and he looked really miserable on sight... immediately my thought drifted to his children..
I look around my community and I try to see what the future holds for the youth, especially young guys of my age.
They are all so ambitious , and admire that so much. But all this energy is being directed wrongly, into all sorts of quick money schemes.
A lot of questions coming through, but the one that seems most persistent is ; "why"
WHy?, what could be wrong, all these people are living without hope for a better tomorrow....
I have mates who are out school who dont know what to do with themselves... they dont know what to become.. not that they are not ambitious enough, they just dont where to direct all that energy.
I asked a couple of guys in SHS what they wanted to become 7 years from now and why. They just didnt know, and those who knew what they wanted to become just didnt know why they wanted to become that.
Its sad and I have been asking myself what is not being done, we are looking forward to educating the youth in this country to come develop this country into what.
I here rantings everyday about this issue and that issue.. about development, but what do we truly want this country to become and who and who are working towards this.
We live in a country where citizens feel they dont owe the nation nothing and the country owes them eveything, ridiculous!.
Looks like we are expecting the country to build us instead of we building the country.
We are expecting the country's natural resources to do all the magic.
Where do we want this country to go... we are building a structure and we dont even have a blue print of what we want. We copy blindy; yeah that guys building looks real cute the way they are building it, lets do something like that.
Hey, we need a dream.......
Every individual needs to know the dream and know his part in making it come to a reality
Too much talk makes no sense, I was taught it reduces productivity
Lets be real....
Lets know exactly where we want to be
Lets have a dream that will teach the people how to dream....
Yes, a dream that unifies all and makes sense to all..
Checkout a society like Sparta they knew where they were going , well its democracy, cant force people to do stuffs, but for the sake of the growth of this country, lets employ the spartans style of dreaming.
Lets know what we want this country to become and lets train the kind of mind tools we need to achieve this.
Yet, until we know where want to go and what to become we wont know which tool to employ....
Dream, dream,dream..... makes sense right.
Individually, you will unique force of your own, if only we will pick up a passion and pick a book. It will help you discover you and help others discover themselves too....
It will help you create the kind of educated picture we need to see and with you seeing that and helping others , we are on our way.
ALWAYS THINK OF A WAY YOU CAN GIVE RATHER THAN RECEIVE
Friday, June 24, 2011
Its been a beautiful day today, well its always beautiful, but I sometimes barely notice.
But its always beautiful experience to be and realize how beautiful the passing moment even is, it feels eternal.
I am really happy living in this experience, every becoming more and pushing towards perfection.
I am grateful.
Well this is the place where I get to talk about onething that I am really passionate about, reading; self-education.
There has been so much activity and neither Salifu nor I has had time to update this blog.
Well will just be great to go straight ahead and talk about some of the things that has kept off the computer screen and these wonderful keyboards...lol
Yeah, having a little laugh.
The past weeks has been wonderful, met lots of great personalities and done real great things that makes me proud, and it somehow keeps affirming life is beautiful.
We had the opportunity to share very interesting stuffs with the children at the Adaeso Presec School ,working with the World Reader.
Previous weeks we've shared subjects on DREAMS, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, REFLECTION and ATTITUDE.
Its great what we in ourselves learned while interacting with these children.
I remember on the week when we talked about dreams, we told these young ones about the essence of dreams and the power in dreaming.
We got to the stage when I was asking what people would want to become and I asked this boy called Stanley, what do you dream of becoming and he says a missionary doctor, then the second question which follows which most of the kids were amiss with was the why question...why do you want to become a missionary doctor. His answer is I want to become a missionary doctor because I see people are sick, in so many places and wish to travel and go help them...wow...his answer blows me away.
I wasnt really expecting it.
Last week Saturday was about ATTITUDE, after we had done the long talk about the essence of developing a positive way of responding to events around us, we brought a scenario to board.
The scenario was about two guys who wanted to be the greatest acoustic guitarists in the world and somehow on a journey to a class they ended up in an accident that got them both blind.
We asked the class what was the positive way of respond to this event and a lot of good answers are coming in, but I remember Stanley again because of the previous answer he had given..
I asked him what do you think will be the most positive way to respond to this situation and he says well, inability is not disability so I will strive on with pursuing my dream, and the answer takes me by surprise again; what really hits me is " inability is not disability"
And there more wonderful stories I cant say here but I am just using Stanley's example... slowly but surely all these books these kids are reading and all the inspirational talk and other activities coming along with it is having a hold on the way these kids think and its just wonderful.
If slowly we are changing the way these kids think about their world then slowly we are changing their world.
But its always beautiful experience to be and realize how beautiful the passing moment even is, it feels eternal.
I am really happy living in this experience, every becoming more and pushing towards perfection.
I am grateful.
Well this is the place where I get to talk about onething that I am really passionate about, reading; self-education.
There has been so much activity and neither Salifu nor I has had time to update this blog.
Well will just be great to go straight ahead and talk about some of the things that has kept off the computer screen and these wonderful keyboards...lol
Yeah, having a little laugh.
The past weeks has been wonderful, met lots of great personalities and done real great things that makes me proud, and it somehow keeps affirming life is beautiful.
We had the opportunity to share very interesting stuffs with the children at the Adaeso Presec School ,working with the World Reader.
Previous weeks we've shared subjects on DREAMS, SELF-RESPONSIBILITY, REFLECTION and ATTITUDE.
Its great what we in ourselves learned while interacting with these children.
I remember on the week when we talked about dreams, we told these young ones about the essence of dreams and the power in dreaming.
We got to the stage when I was asking what people would want to become and I asked this boy called Stanley, what do you dream of becoming and he says a missionary doctor, then the second question which follows which most of the kids were amiss with was the why question...why do you want to become a missionary doctor. His answer is I want to become a missionary doctor because I see people are sick, in so many places and wish to travel and go help them...wow...his answer blows me away.
I wasnt really expecting it.
Last week Saturday was about ATTITUDE, after we had done the long talk about the essence of developing a positive way of responding to events around us, we brought a scenario to board.
The scenario was about two guys who wanted to be the greatest acoustic guitarists in the world and somehow on a journey to a class they ended up in an accident that got them both blind.
We asked the class what was the positive way of respond to this event and a lot of good answers are coming in, but I remember Stanley again because of the previous answer he had given..
I asked him what do you think will be the most positive way to respond to this situation and he says well, inability is not disability so I will strive on with pursuing my dream, and the answer takes me by surprise again; what really hits me is " inability is not disability"
And there more wonderful stories I cant say here but I am just using Stanley's example... slowly but surely all these books these kids are reading and all the inspirational talk and other activities coming along with it is having a hold on the way these kids think and its just wonderful.
If slowly we are changing the way these kids think about their world then slowly we are changing their world.
Sunday, May 15, 2011
@ PRESEC-ADAESO (Senior high school).
Saturday, 14th May,2011
We started well, the weather was favorable and certainty about our predetermined program kept us moving. As scheduled, Samuel and I had to talk about passion in the art of reading.
We did just that, trying to instigate a reason for reading as a means of exploring more about things we are passionate about. We started by talking about passion and its traits so the students get to understand what their passions are, and how the intense innate desire compels and leads us into an unpredictable journey of exploration. We had some help from the dictionary on the kindles.
It was all cool until I had to talk about exploration as a trait of passion. I had taken my own experience as an example, talking about my pursuit towards the understanding of the topic of randomness versus determinism, how it later engulfed and made me explore other topics such as causality, certainty and uncertainty. Just then I was explaining randomness, that things just happened without the cause of other events and indeed it manifested.
It started raining heavily and we had not expected that at all.
So uncertainty crept in and few of us felt the program was going to be wrecked. We decided to be deterministic by following suit our programs as the weather changed. Samuel and I had to stop
because our voices couldn't pierce through the crackling noises of the iron roofing sheet. So we watched the volunteers from Ashesi take over.
We became certain once more when the students engaged themselves in wonderful academic games. The games included spelling, and acting words or statements to partners.
So they picked some words from some stories on the kindles to test the spelling ability of the kids. Then we went on to play the "pick and act game" as it still rained heavily. This time I think I was inspired.
I saw the children trying to bring words to life, doing all they could to tell their team mates a word or a statement without speech but mere action.
Among them was a tall boy hopping; his two arms fixed to his chest just like the tyrannosaurus. On the third hop I could hear the sound of his long feet pounding the floor and watching his hanged arms... I realised he was a man-kangaroo. I laughed because he had no pouch, no tail and no pointed face. Do actions speak louder than words?
I think actions themselves are words.
The rain stopped, and so did the crackling noises of the roof. Samuel and I wrapped things up and took some questions from the students.
Joseph helped answer some questions as well about pursuing passions.
We all had fun learning and I think the worldreader is by far on the right path, not only reading but inspiring these kids to build the best future for themselves.
Being able to continue our program with the circumstances that befell, I think there is always a source of happiness around us, and all we have to do is to observe and discover what to learn at particular moments.
Saturday, 14th May,2011
We started well, the weather was favorable and certainty about our predetermined program kept us moving. As scheduled, Samuel and I had to talk about passion in the art of reading.
We did just that, trying to instigate a reason for reading as a means of exploring more about things we are passionate about. We started by talking about passion and its traits so the students get to understand what their passions are, and how the intense innate desire compels and leads us into an unpredictable journey of exploration. We had some help from the dictionary on the kindles.
It was all cool until I had to talk about exploration as a trait of passion. I had taken my own experience as an example, talking about my pursuit towards the understanding of the topic of randomness versus determinism, how it later engulfed and made me explore other topics such as causality, certainty and uncertainty. Just then I was explaining randomness, that things just happened without the cause of other events and indeed it manifested.
It started raining heavily and we had not expected that at all.
So uncertainty crept in and few of us felt the program was going to be wrecked. We decided to be deterministic by following suit our programs as the weather changed. Samuel and I had to stop
because our voices couldn't pierce through the crackling noises of the iron roofing sheet. So we watched the volunteers from Ashesi take over.
We became certain once more when the students engaged themselves in wonderful academic games. The games included spelling, and acting words or statements to partners.
So they picked some words from some stories on the kindles to test the spelling ability of the kids. Then we went on to play the "pick and act game" as it still rained heavily. This time I think I was inspired.
I saw the children trying to bring words to life, doing all they could to tell their team mates a word or a statement without speech but mere action.
Among them was a tall boy hopping; his two arms fixed to his chest just like the tyrannosaurus. On the third hop I could hear the sound of his long feet pounding the floor and watching his hanged arms... I realised he was a man-kangaroo. I laughed because he had no pouch, no tail and no pointed face. Do actions speak louder than words?
I think actions themselves are words.
The rain stopped, and so did the crackling noises of the roof. Samuel and I wrapped things up and took some questions from the students.
Joseph helped answer some questions as well about pursuing passions.
We all had fun learning and I think the worldreader is by far on the right path, not only reading but inspiring these kids to build the best future for themselves.
Being able to continue our program with the circumstances that befell, I think there is always a source of happiness around us, and all we have to do is to observe and discover what to learn at particular moments.
Monday, May 9, 2011
@ Adaeso
We had an opportunity to work with the world reader organization . The first experience which we were waiting patiently for came on the 7/5/11
We were to visit Adaeso Presbyterian school and read with the children.
Worldreader is doing a wonderful job giving these children this incredible experience with the kindle.
Worldreader's efforts goes way beyond the threshold of getting books to the kids but also to the parents of the kids with the text to speech feature of the kindle.
I had time with some of the kids and just as I had believed, the books these kids are reading is making a wonderful impact in their lives.
One boy's favorite book was titled the champion runner. I asked him why that title is his favorite , and to my surprise he spoke about the resilience, humility and determination of a young boy who won the race competition of the story.
He was inspired so much by the character in the story and told me, he was adopting the traits of the character in pursuing his dreams of becoming a pilot.
Wow.... I asked why did he choose to become a pilot and not any other profession. He said "its because that's the only way someone can get abroad " , so I asked whether he wanted to become a pilot just so, he could travel and see places... He said, no I want to become a pilot because I get to help the people traveling abroad and myself, as I make money and get to know places.
I was impressed because I felt the boy I had learned a great lesson which he didn't even know , that one has to give in order to receive.
And this my friends is the power of picking up a book, you learn something anyhow either consciously and unconsciously.
For me the vocabulary, expression and all , doesn't have more meaning than the inspiration these kids are going to pick up from every book they read.
Pick up a passion and then pick up a book
Reading speaks the message readily
We were to visit Adaeso Presbyterian school and read with the children.
Worldreader is doing a wonderful job giving these children this incredible experience with the kindle.
Worldreader's efforts goes way beyond the threshold of getting books to the kids but also to the parents of the kids with the text to speech feature of the kindle.
I had time with some of the kids and just as I had believed, the books these kids are reading is making a wonderful impact in their lives.
One boy's favorite book was titled the champion runner. I asked him why that title is his favorite , and to my surprise he spoke about the resilience, humility and determination of a young boy who won the race competition of the story.
He was inspired so much by the character in the story and told me, he was adopting the traits of the character in pursuing his dreams of becoming a pilot.
Wow.... I asked why did he choose to become a pilot and not any other profession. He said "its because that's the only way someone can get abroad " , so I asked whether he wanted to become a pilot just so, he could travel and see places... He said, no I want to become a pilot because I get to help the people traveling abroad and myself, as I make money and get to know places.
I was impressed because I felt the boy I had learned a great lesson which he didn't even know , that one has to give in order to receive.
And this my friends is the power of picking up a book, you learn something anyhow either consciously and unconsciously.
For me the vocabulary, expression and all , doesn't have more meaning than the inspiration these kids are going to pick up from every book they read.
Pick up a passion and then pick up a book
Reading speaks the message readily
WHERE TO READ
WHERE TO READ.
Words are hard to draw out, as I keep struggling with my flow.Trying to write right, to impress, draw attention and at the same time drive my message home.
There is an issue at hand that I believe if not looked at might cause the retrogression of this country rather than its progress.
THE PROBLEM I SEE.
My days in school were full of unfulfilled fantasies.
I had always wondered when we were going to study one of my favorite subjects; electricity in Integrated science..
When it was time to learn all about it, I was disappointed , frankly speaking because I had no idea what the teacher had just taught.
My idea of leaning was to lead me on a path of exploration to help me to find out the wonders and tales of the discovery of a subject.
I didn't have lessons from one teacher , soon my Maths teacher came around, I liked Maths, the fact that I had the opportunity to find answers by manipulating numbers and operations..hmmm...but numbers didn't seem fun in the end...cos I just didn't know how to apply a topic like functions to my everyday life.
Social studies wasn't bad at least, it had strings of tales and stories connected to it and I loved listening to how Dr.Kwame Nkrumah and his fellas achieved their dream.
I have always wondered if Dr.Nkrumah hadn't written any books that would be worth discussing in class.
Words are hard to draw out, as I keep struggling with my flow.Trying to write right, to impress, draw attention and at the same time drive my message home.
There is an issue at hand that I believe if not looked at might cause the retrogression of this country rather than its progress.
THE PROBLEM I SEE.
My days in school were full of unfulfilled fantasies.
I had always wondered when we were going to study one of my favorite subjects; electricity in Integrated science..
When it was time to learn all about it, I was disappointed , frankly speaking because I had no idea what the teacher had just taught.
My idea of leaning was to lead me on a path of exploration to help me to find out the wonders and tales of the discovery of a subject.
I didn't have lessons from one teacher , soon my Maths teacher came around, I liked Maths, the fact that I had the opportunity to find answers by manipulating numbers and operations..hmmm...but numbers didn't seem fun in the end...cos I just didn't know how to apply a topic like functions to my everyday life.
Social studies wasn't bad at least, it had strings of tales and stories connected to it and I loved listening to how Dr.Kwame Nkrumah and his fellas achieved their dream.
I have always wondered if Dr.Nkrumah hadn't written any books that would be worth discussing in class.
GETTING THE BOOKS..
Self education is done best if one gets to fetch all books he needs for free. We therefore see it necessary directing you to the best sources you can get a personal library for free.
Pick a passion and pick a book from the various websites listed. Hope you enjoy reading...
free books online:
www.freebookspot.com
ebookee.com
www.bartleby.com
www.gutenberg.org
www.readprint.com
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu
www.dailylit.com
www.scribd.com
www.manybooks.net
books.google.com
en.wikisource.org
ww.sacred-texts.com
www.ccel.org
free audio books:
freebookspot.cc/Category-Audio Bookslibrivox.org
verkaro.org
www.loudlit.org
www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com
www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_Audio_Books_Project
Pick a passion and pick a book from the various websites listed. Hope you enjoy reading...
free books online:
www.freebookspot.com
ebookee.com
www.bartleby.com
www.gutenberg.org
www.readprint.com
onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu
www.dailylit.com
www.scribd.com
www.manybooks.net
books.google.com
en.wikisource.org
ww.sacred-texts.com
www.ccel.org
free audio books:
freebookspot.cc/Category-Audio Bookslibrivox.org
verkaro.org
www.loudlit.org
www.freeclassicaudiobooks.com
www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:The_Audio_Books_Project
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