Final Reflections
Mood:  lucky
Now Playing: The song
Final Finds

Vianney Rutebuka
Class: EN 112 College writing II
Instructor: April Sirkoski
Final finds

Date: June 29th, 2005

In my final finds, I tried to collect some of the most important entries from find 1 to 4, and then i included 4 entries from find 6. I picked some of the pictures that can tell somebody who i really am as a christian, what I do as a christian , what I like and dislike as a christian, and some other details about myself and so on. All I wanted was to frame and show how all activities of my life are connected to my faith as true Christian and how i shape my life to be strong in mind, body, and spirit.
Besides being a student, I also like sports. I do not enjoy watching sports on television or reading about sports in news only, howevwe i am always interested in knowing how athletes feel about sports; and i try to know by doing sports myself. I believe that sport is a hard work; sports require dedication, consistency, and concentration. Being a cross country runner made me respect more people who play sports. playing sports can also be fun and sports help people to build their bodies mentally and physically. God who gave us the body wanted us to take care of it and i believe that it is a sin when when we take our body for granted.
Among my other finds i tried to talk about love. And the Bible says that people who do not know God can not love either. I included the picture of flowers i gave to the girl i was dating. The girl is a student at the same school La Roche College and she is an athlete because she plays basketball. In my life i never tried to love more that two girls because i never compare people, and i believe that every human being has his own special qualities that any other person may not have, and i think that is the reason why we always need each other so we can build strength together. When talking about love and life, i also included the picture of my birthday because my birthday is a special day for me in my own ways. My birthday is a kind of reminder telling that i have to look backwards and also try to find out what may be forwards so i can plan and adopt new ways of living ahead in my life. My birthday is also a time to love and share with friends, to remember my family especially my mom; but it is a special day to be thankful to the Lord who is the giver of life in first place. I alson included two love songs. One song is "Oh girl" which talks about how it is bad if somebody you love is trying to leave you; the other song is called "Baby come back" and it tells how a person can feel lonely when somebody has already left; and people who love they can feel guilty even when they are not wrong, but no one is perfect really.
I kept on going with my final finds talking about God. when i picked up my picture holding the Bible, i wanted to show how i live my life with God, how i respect His Word. God reveal Himself to people, and it takes a strong faith to be able to find him, otherwise no one can have a clue about Him. When i included the lights during the night, i was trying to show how God gave us power of transformation from His wisdom, and we can make some changes needed so we can make our world better.
It was hard to gather my entries because it took me time and i had to be careful about what pictures should really represent who i am. however I also enjoyed the opportunity to learn about myself some and to be able to tell others about myself.



















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Reflection 6
Mood:  cool
Now Playing: Song: Baby come back
Finds 6

The third week of july 2005 from 19th to 23rd was a good week fro me. My daily activities did not change that much. The only unusual thing that happened was the accident i had on friday before the weekend starts.I tried to show some of the important activities or events of the week.
In first place i would like to thank God Lord the giver of life, because all the week i was doing okey and i was not sick. I tried to talk about my week from the day of tuesday, the most important thing i did on that day was readin in my roon alone. Actually, tuesday has always been a day of studing hard during this summer. The only thing is that i never like reading in my room, but it happened that i stayed i did not have a roomate that day. On wednesday i tried to go in gym according to my schedule; and then on thursaday i met my christian friend Brooks, and we did bible study together as we use to do every week. We use to meet during the week and then we meet on sunday as a special day to pray. Actually i am Catholic and he prays in Orthodox Church, however we do not follow only the church principles because we use to learn using the Bible. Our difference have not been so important and i was impressed to find somebody who believe the same things i believe in and who is not from the same religion as me. However the reason was that my friend Brooks learn God's Word using the Bible instead of listening only on what Preachers say; and sometimes he used to tell me that he disagree with some of the preachers, same as i do sometimes too. Friday was a tough day of the week because, the accident happened to me and my car was damaged, but thanks to the Lord i was okey and nobody else has been hurt. Really God never promised life with no pain, and sometimes we go through pain so we can become strong and real. On saturday, i was kind of confused, and that is why i put the funny picture of my brother as a reminder of how i wondered what to do next because i was really stuck. That is how my week ended, and i am happy for the week i do not have anything to complain about since i am completly safe.
In my conclusion, i wanted to say that my third week of july was good for me.

Reflection 5
Mood:  cool


Music is something that almost everybody in universe enjoy. According to my beliefs as christian, i believe that even God Himself enjoy music and god loves it when we sing and praise Him. Therefore i also think that every human being has at least some kinds of songs they like. I tried to choose two slow and love songs in order to show how love is very important in our life.

As a christian, i believe that anybody who do not know the Lord can never love. It is mentioned in the Bible 1 JOhn 4:7 that God is Love, and that those who do not know him can never love; and that those who do not know God can only desire. I say desire to show those who do not have a clue about God can live but in their own ways. They can get married for some reasons of satisfactions like wealth, have a sense of a family, sexual desires,and so on...but the true love can never be there. And whenever the interest is not the unbelievers who are married may get divorced.
The name of the first song is " Oh girl" and it was recorded by the Chi-Lites. The owner of the song is EUGENE RECORD. This song is love slow song. It talks about love and how the man never wanted the girl to leave him alone. This song shows me the appreciation of the man for having the girl. He even said that he did not know how to look for love, which meant that he accepted that he was lucky to have his girl. The melody and tone bring the feeling of somebody who does not want something to go. The guy also said:" I will be in trouble if u left me now". He was trying to save the relationship with the girl. And the second song is called "Baby come back". This song is my favorite song when it comes to love songs. This song is about love and talks about how the man was lonely after his baby was gone. And as it is rwitten in the Bible, man was not created to be alone and that is why being lonely can be painful. The melodie is slow and gives a a feeling of somebody who is really lone missing somebody else. For example when the man was trying to say that: "U can bleme it all on me". That means love and it means that the man never cared anymore about who made a mistake, he only cared about being back together.
in my conclusion, i believe that love makes life, and even God created us because He loved us. Without love, nothing was going to exist; and all the things were going to be destroyed.

midterm reflexions
Mood:  cool
midterm finds


Vianney Rutebuka

Class: EN 112 College writing

Instructor: April Sikorski

Midterm Reflections





Date: June 4th, 2005





Midterm reflections





In my midterm; I tried to collect some of the most important entries from find 1 to find 4. I picked up some of the pictures that can tell somebody who I really am, what I do, what I like, and some other details about myself. Besides being a student, I also like sports. I do not enjoy watching sport on television or reading about sport in news. I mean I do, but I am always interested in knowing how athletes feel about it, how can sport be a hard work, how sport requires dedication, consistency, concentration, spirit changes, etc...as a runner, I respect people who do sport because I know the part of it and I understand sometimes how it feels; I do not think it is only having fun, but it is also being dedicated.

Among my other pictures, I talked about love: I tried to include the flower I gave on my date. I recognize myself as a very sentimental person, and very sensitive too. Many guys know how to play, but I am not one of them. When I love I give it all, I do not spend only of it. The way I love my friends, my family, and my neighbor is almost similar. I just do not like being tricky, but as far I take more and more steps about love; I discover that many people can not love, but they can only desire. I kept on going with my midterm talking a little bit about myself and about the way I live with God who is the creator of life, earth, and Heaven. When I was holding the Bible I just wanted to show my exceptional respect and how I humiliate myself towards God's Word. God reveals himself to people, he is not someone you can look for and find; because it requires faith to have a clue about him.

I also talked about media and what media can do. Since i was a little, even today; i have always been experiencing how people are seriously influenced by the media. Weak people can totally be depressed and destroyed by the media. What I do in my life is to watch out the news and the malice people include in media. Here I picked up a watch advertisement, and from it I just talked about the media. Sometimes people do not write things for us to read, but many write things for us to be influenced.

I included night term traffic and lights. Here I wanted to talk a little bit about relaxing during night term. Most people relax during the night, and go out after work to have fun. But I also wanted to talk about technology, because that is human creation through wisdom and creativity a human being got from God who created everything in first place. I also believe in evolution, not too much in creation. I respect human work and dedication too.

I included my birthday picture in my midterm. Everybody may have a way he/she considers their birthdays. My birthday is a kind of reminder telling me that I have to look backwards and forwards and make adopt new things in my life; that is how I see my birthday.

It is been very enjoyable to post my midterm entries because I had the opportunity to pick up something that really defines which kind of a person I am.

Sound of information
Mood:  silly
Now Playing: The sound of information

find-4The sound of information. I s is an article with which people want to tell us something about something? Is it an advertisement? Or it is just news? These sre some of the questions we may ask ourselves when we are reading something like a newspaper, a book, a note or anything. Find-4 was easy for me, because i could get information i wanted so easily. When reading newspapers, anybody can immediately figure out what was the intention of the writer. Also getting two finds of anything i want was fun for me. It was so much fun to work on my find-4 more than it was on other finds.

Letters and card from friend and to friends
Mood:  cool
Now Playing: Communication with friends.
Topic: find-3

Find-3My find-3 has been a little bit a challenge for me! Everybody knows how people do not like to share their personal informations. Like letters from a friend or a letter to a friend. But i was able to share with people how i live with my surroundings. I included one letter from Monsignor Kevin from Florida who has been a friend and a mentor to me. I also tried to post some letters from friends back home and from my brother. Some of the letter were written in Kinyarwanda and i had to translate them for you.

Pictures representing Important Events
Mood:  cool
Topic: find-2

Find-2In my find-2, i tried to put together pictures that show some important events especially since i come in USA. When talking about important events, it hurt me a little bit because it reminds me how i lost almost everything during the war in Rwanda. Again, i could post some important pictures because i did not bring pictures i took after the war with me. However, i was very happy putting some of the pictures i got since i came in USA.

find 2
find 2

Find 1: Reflection
Mood:  chatty
Now Playing: No games, just quiet.
find-1When i was working on my find 1, i was just happy doing it because it was my first time trying to put my pictures on a website. I have been waiting for an opporunity to start gathering some of my pictures online, but i was not having time and skills to do that.
Of course i had problems about finding the good and right pictures, since i had to abide in class requirements. I was happy, but not free to do whatever i want on my pictures.
Taking pictures at once for a purpose can not be an easy thing to do. I had to keep my camera with me, and whenever i was done taking some of my pictures; sometimes new ideas came on what other pictures i should had been taken. But i did not blame myself on that, because nothing can be done perfectly; especially when someone has a limited time.
another thing i had to deal with was that i could not take pictures of myself when i was alone! It disturbed me so much, and many times i could not find a person close to me either. Only once, i found somebody when i was riding a bicycle; and i had to ask for a favor to have a picture of myself.
I really enjoyed taking pictures for my find one, and i was interested in having pictures on my website.find-1