With Meaning

Well Friday I didn't have time to do my daily blog so that's right I'm doing it today. Well I'll do 2 days in 1 blogpost. So here's how Friday went down... Me and Tayweave attended the Southern California Edison's Community Forum for Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders. It was for our community exposure, we were shadowing an executive director of a commnity based organization, GCN. It was at the Grand in Long Beach. It was really nice there were like 2 breakfast tables so naturally we grabbed the table that was closest to 1 lol. They also gave us bags with a notebook and flashlight. Very cool. They also had keychains and little bracelets, all very green and very cute. They first played a short movie about Edison, not too exciting. Then they started talking and introducing people, also not too exciting. Later on the introduced who would be in the panel and why. Uncle Joey told us to pay attention to each speaker's technique. He said to take notes to use for future reference if ever we have to speak one day. He also told us why he chose not to wear a suit. He said that these people are looking for Pacific Island organizations and he wore a short sleeved shirt so that they can see his tribal tatt and realize that he is someone they should be talking to. After that we went to GCN to have our final workshop. We basically checked in with Kush to make sure that we are on the right track. Later we had a few presentations. We talked about the difference between qualitative and quantitative data is. We also talked about baggage and that we need to keep in mind that everybody has their own baggage which is rarely the same baggage as us. We also talked about our presentations we will be giving at the end of working with our researchers. We even sang Uncle Joey happy birthday. Kush then told us that when we blog to write about what you took away from the day or what something meant to you. So I will write that the workshop really made me understand why Pipeline is important and why doing the research is important. Which is, when you go to the government and want to say something is a problem in your community you need to have justification, which is your research. Now I will appreciate transcribing and do it with a little more meaning because there is a bigger picture.