{"id":5651,"date":"2020-01-06T13:45:38","date_gmt":"2020-01-06T19:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/family.pep.org\/estes\/?p=5651"},"modified":"2025-05-03T22:55:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T22:55:18","slug":"week-15-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/family.pep.org\/estes\/2020\/01\/06\/week-15-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 15"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t\n

Week\nin Review<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monday, December 23, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today we took the last test\nfrom our Entrepreneurship book, Chapter 14. We were then given another test we\nknew nothing about. To our surprise, the next test was actually to our skills\non following directions. Many of us were fooled by this trick test and should\nhave expected this because we are not yet done with our Integrity Selling\npresentations, and this is what the test was based on. This gave us the\nopportunity to get familiar with all the material before the test. The brothers\nwho followed directions properly were rewarded with 5 extra bonus points on the\ntest we took before it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After everything was done, we\nwere told to turn in our Entrepreneurship<\/em>\nbooks, and we all felt a sense of accomplishment now that we were finally done\nwith the testing from that book. We are now one step closer to graduation,\nwhich is only a few weeks away. We all felt great to be a part of this learning\nexperience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also watched American history\nvideos for the remainder of class, which just so happen to be way better than\nArt history videos that can drag sometimes. It always makes us proud to see how\nfar we have come since people first arrived on this continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We ended the day with praying\nout and wishing each other a good day. Thank God for another day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miguel\nR. (a.k.a. \u201cSweet Little Care Bear\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tuesday, December 24, 2019 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a very beautiful day as\nwe walked into class and found our seats. We got ready to do our pray-in, which\nwe do every morning before we read the word of the day. As we faced the library\nabout to take our tests, we all knew we were closer to accomplishing our goals.\nAfter all tests were done, we re-arranged our chairs to begin watching Art\nHistory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The lesson was from a\nprofessor at the University of Dallas. Along with Pizzaro and Monet, we learned\nabout Berthe Moriset, a French woman born in 1841. She was born into an\nupper-class family and had only female siblings. There is a painting by Moriset\nin 1872, and the painting is astounding. These artists had amazing talent to\nmake such exquisitely beautiful paintings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next video was about the\nGreat Depression and the dust bowl in America. On April 14, 1935, a woman named\nLouise Walton, who used to be a Broadway dancer and actor, moved to the prairie\nfor her breathing conditions. Her daughter Jean had just left the hospital. She\nhad been admitted due to respiratory conditions \u2013 over the previous three\nmonths, there had been 49 dust storms. It was around 2:40 p.m. when the largest\ndust storm in American history swept in at 200 miles wide. It was massive and\ncaused Jean to have dust pneumonia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We also learned that the Romans\ninvented concrete, and Frank Crowe built the Hoover Dam and completed it on\nSeptember 30, 1935. Joe Lewis was knocked out by Max Schmelling, then on the\nrematch Schmelling was knocked out in 2 minutes. On December 7, 1941, a total\nof 183 fighters and bombers bombed Pearl Harbor at 7:50 a.m., which led America\nto fight WWII against Japan and Germany. This caused America to work together\nwith its allies, which helped pull us out of economic depression. The day after\nwe dropped the second atomic bomb on Japan, the Japanese surrendered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was a great day filled with\nhistory and joy. Thank God for another day here at PEP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael\nS. (a.k.a. \u201cMilky Way\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wednesday, December 25, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today was an amazing day \u2013\neven though we may be in the situation that we are in, we were still able to\ncelebrate this special holiday. The whole dorm was ready for the movies that\nthe unit was about to play today, and some of us also went to the rec yard to\nget some exercise and fresh air on this beautiful day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once everyone was back, it\ndidn\u2019t take long until they called for us to go get our special lunch meal. We\nall lined up outside the door and waited until we were able to go next to the\ncafeteria. As some of us were returning with our trays, you could smell the\nfood that they were giving us, and it smelled delicious. We are so thankful to\nbe blessed with such a meal that it brought some humanity back to us. This is a\nsmall taste of freedom that we all crave so much, and we can\u2019t wait to get back\nto our families and spend some quality time with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We then started watching the\nmovies that the unit was playing, and they were all new to us. Everyone was\nreally enjoying the new movies, and we all knew that, sometimes, these are the\ndays that we really look forward to. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Christmas spirit was\nreally in the air today, and we are so thankful to have spent it with each\nother. God has truly blessed us with another year and positive people to\ncelebrate this day with. Thank God and thank PEP.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jamal\nS. (a.k.a. \u201cSuga\u201d)<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thursday, December 26, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Good\nmorning from the one and only H-Pod! Here we are, the day after Christmas,\nawakening from what we would call the big meal hangover. We are for the most\npart up and ready to go to recreation, but since we are on the holiday schedule,\nwe are not too eager to go work off our meal from the day before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So we\nall sat around like a big family enjoying the movies we were blessed to be able\nto watch, thanks to the Warden. Our pod is pretty quiet; as of now, no one has\nstarted playing dominoes to keep their mind busy yet, but it\u2019s still pretty\nearly. Pretty much after lunch, we will perk right up and get the day started\nwith jokes and games. We planned on doing a game night tonight so we all as\nbrothers could not be feeling down due to the holiday. Now we have the ones who\nlike to use the phone a lot, but today we are going to try and leave it alone\ntoo keep from being sad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tonight\nwe all came together as usual and we did our prayer for ourselves and our loved\nones. Also, since there was no education nor PEP, some of the guys wanted it to\nbe late night rack up. Since it wasn\u2019t, the night ended as if it was a normal\nday, but everyone was okay with that and went to their rooms for ID count. God\nBless you and your family. Happy Holidays, and may the New Year bring your\nloved ones home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kenneth\nS. (a.k.a. \u201cMr. Hanky\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Expressions                                                                                     \n<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLife.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I want\nto say \u201cthank you\u201d to all the people who have walked into my life and made it\noutstanding, and all the people who believe in me \u2013 you\u2019ve made it truly fantastic.\nThe very fact that I desire to change is a sure sign that, in time, I can\nchange \u2013 especially since I intelligently and responsibly choose to act on ways\nto honor this new direction. I\u2019ve always believed that if you put in the work,\nthe results will come. I don\u2019t do things half-heartedly, because I know if I\ndo, then I can expect only half-hearted results. One definition of maturity is\nlearning to delay pleasure. Children do what feels good; adults devise a plan\nand follow it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me\ntell you the secret that has led me to my goal; my strength lies solely in my\ntenacity to live out the 10 Driving Values. I have found personal growth by\napplying PEP\u2019s 10 Driving Values in my life and so have chosen a quote for a\nfew of my favorites to show what has inspired me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFresh-Start\u201d Outlook<\/strong> <\/strong>means I don\u2019t wait, the time\nwill never be \u201cjust right.\u201d Start where you stand and work with whatever tools\nyou may have at your command. Better tools will be found as you go, but just\nremember, \u201cHe is able who thinks he is able.\u201d                                        <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Having\na Servant-Leader Mentality<\/strong>, I\nencounter another person \u2013 either as a model or as a challenger. I never have\nto wonder why somebody doesn\u2019t do something about that, because I\u2019ve never\nrealized I\u2019m that somebody. Our true destiny is a world built from the bottom\nup by competent citizens living in solid communities, engaged in and by their\nplaces. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\nhave all known the long loneliness and have learned that the only solution is Love<\/strong>, and that love comes with\ncommunity and fellowship. For the first time, as a whole, we know what love is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Innovation<\/strong> is\nthe road to success, and it will always be under construction. Humanity needs a\nvision of an expanding and unending future. If we cannot envision the world we\nwould like to live in, we cannot work toward its creation. If we cannot place\nourselves in it, at least in our imagination, we will not believe it\u2019s\npossible. Champions are made from something they have deep inside of them; a\ndesire, a dream and, most important, a VISION.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher S. (a.k.a. \u201cRichard Simmons\u201d)<\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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