Homeless World Cup Soccer Tournament!
Lesson: You learn a lot of random stuff working at an assisted living establishment!
For the last week I have been observing at Goddard House, an assisted living residence in Brookline. In a couple more weeks I'll be able to start planning and leading my own groups.
Today there were many fun activities on the seniors' schedule.
For me, the highlight of the day was when Paul MacDonald (sp?) came to discuss the U.S. Constitution with us. Oddly enough, he started the lecture out by talking about soccer. His son is a soccer player in England so Mr MacDonald is updated on all the soccer highlights.
It turns out that there is a homeless person's world cup tournament which starts in two days! It is sponsored by Nike. So cool! Supposedly this is going to assist homeless people to become inspired to find direction in their lives. Who knows if this will work for the people playing, but in the meantime they are being flown around the world for free in order to play in these tournaments. Interesting no? You can watch it on podcast I think.
Mr MacDonald then told us about a great book called : How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer. It discusses patterns of globalization in terms of soccer trades and developments. This book will definitely be going on my reading list!
He only switched to discussing The Constitution of The United States when one of the seniors called him on his skewed topic choice ;)
The rest of Mr MacDonald's talk centered on the difference between the meanings of the prepositions "of" and "for" in relation to the U.S. Constitution. It is called The Constitution of The United States of America, but it is described in the text as being The Constitution for The United states of America: preamble. He encouraged us to get a copy and read it because it was for us and therefore he thought we should know what it says and embrace the power it gives us to change our laws and leadership. The last part of his talk centered on the 27th amendment . He used this as an example that our nations laws are being amended on a consistent basis and as proof that change is possible.
He said that it takes 25 minutes to read through the whole constitution of The United States of America. If you're interested check out the Constitution !
I will probably read over this and am interested in what he had to say, but the first half of his talk was by far the more entertaining.
Good Night!
-L
For the last week I have been observing at Goddard House, an assisted living residence in Brookline. In a couple more weeks I'll be able to start planning and leading my own groups.
Today there were many fun activities on the seniors' schedule.
For me, the highlight of the day was when Paul MacDonald (sp?) came to discuss the U.S. Constitution with us. Oddly enough, he started the lecture out by talking about soccer. His son is a soccer player in England so Mr MacDonald is updated on all the soccer highlights.
It turns out that there is a homeless person's world cup tournament which starts in two days! It is sponsored by Nike. So cool! Supposedly this is going to assist homeless people to become inspired to find direction in their lives. Who knows if this will work for the people playing, but in the meantime they are being flown around the world for free in order to play in these tournaments. Interesting no? You can watch it on podcast I think.
Mr MacDonald then told us about a great book called : How Soccer Explains the World: An Unlikely Theory of Globalization by Franklin Foer. It discusses patterns of globalization in terms of soccer trades and developments. This book will definitely be going on my reading list!
He only switched to discussing The Constitution of The United States when one of the seniors called him on his skewed topic choice ;)
The rest of Mr MacDonald's talk centered on the difference between the meanings of the prepositions "of" and "for" in relation to the U.S. Constitution. It is called The Constitution of The United States of America, but it is described in the text as being The Constitution for The United states of America: preamble. He encouraged us to get a copy and read it because it was for us and therefore he thought we should know what it says and embrace the power it gives us to change our laws and leadership. The last part of his talk centered on the 27th amendment . He used this as an example that our nations laws are being amended on a consistent basis and as proof that change is possible.
He said that it takes 25 minutes to read through the whole constitution of The United States of America. If you're interested check out the Constitution !
I will probably read over this and am interested in what he had to say, but the first half of his talk was by far the more entertaining.
Good Night!
-L
posted by El @ Thursday, September 21, 2006
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