Dr. Peele-Eady came to visit with our class today while we were attending the E3 museum.  I was very excited about having a guest speaker but at the same time very distracted because we were in the museum.  I respected her for asking everyone's name and really trying to make a connection with our class.  She felt like she knew me and I do get this a lot but at the same time I felt like I knew her as well.

She came to talk to us about diversity and how we should deal and to make us think about our own perceptions of others.  One of my favorite points was the way we think when we here someone on the phone.  I myself get very annoyed when I call these companies for tech help and I can't understand the people.  We all make ideas and judgments about a person when we speak to them on the phone. 

Dr. Peele-Eady shared lot of valuable information with our class and I will remember it probably forever.  I think she would be a very interesting person to just have a conversation with outside of a school environment.  Our closing activity was a piece of paper with a child written on it.  We were to crumple it every time she said a negative remark.  After it was over we opened the paper and even though we tried to smooth it out the crinkles wouldn't go away.  With that with positive comments we may feel better but the negative remarks never completely go away.