Bluebellia

To read from the beginning, click HERE (Continued from Part 06 ) One great lesson One thing I appreciated about IBE, was the fact that we were taught by the new way. We were made in teams, and pretty much we did everything with our teammates. It wasn’t just about teamwork; it was about developing leadership, discipline, responsibility, and personality. That’s why I was so pleased when my teammates valued me highly, and that’s why I could really say that I had become a better person. One of the three IBE professors was Dr. Michaelsen, my very first Management Instructor. It was significant because his class would be very decisive for my attitude about my Management major. Fortunately he did a great job. Throughout the course, he’d taught us many good lessons, several of them were quite crucial. I am gonna talk about one of them, which was called “The unsung hero”. “Unsung” means unrecognized. An unsung hero would be someone that deserves to be praised more than what people think...

--> I am not really interested in dogs. In fact, I have had some pretty bad experiences with several of them in real life, and I try to avoid them as much as possible. But my girlfriend loves them a lot, so somehow I have a little special feeling toward them at a corner in my heart. So here it is, my newest Origami collection, Dogs. I really enjoyed folding them. And again, none of these models are my creations; I only fold them according to diagrams. Each of them was made with one uncut square. PART 06: DOGS TOSA INU by Nishikawa Seiji – He looks like the one Arwen has. Scary… : D AMERICAN COCKER SPANIEL by Kamiya Satoshi COLLIE DOG by Fumiaki Kawahata DACHSHUND by Aoki Ryo DOG by Noboru Miyajima FOX TERRIER by Roman Diaz PUPPY by Katsuta Kyohei GOLDEN RETRIEVER by Kamiya Satoshi SPECIAL FEATURE!!! PUPPY by Akira Yoshizawa We can be happy by ourselves… But love will make us happ...

To read from the beginning, click HERE (Continued from Part 05 ) The Recognitions In any business, feedbacks are critically important (even in love). I was born to be a person who wants to hear feedbacks from others even more than normal. In IBE, we learned about giving useful feedbacks, and we had several chances during the semester to get feedbacks from others. As I was facing disapprovals and unfairly treatments from other members, I expected nothing from their recognition toward me, even though I was still contributing my best. There were many outstanding people in the company, and I knew comparing to them I was pretty far behind. Our first feedback activity was in the mid of the semester. The company officers were separated from the company members, and each group would give comments about the other, in a friendly but serious way, so that any issue occurred might be fixed immediately. We both were provided some large sheets of paper to write down what-ever commen...

To read from the beginning, click HERE (Continued from Part 04 ) Things besides glasses Selling was fun, but some other things were fun, also. Most of the other activities were about doing stuffs for BBBS (Big Brothers Big Sisters), the non-profit organization that we chose to donate all of our profit to. We also had to donate at least 30 hours of work to them, doing whatever. One big thing was raising the fund by selling doughnuts, pizzas, and baked goods. We were raising the fun too. I didn’t participate in our first fund-raising, the Pizza Hut one, due to the fact that I had no car. Since I didn’t have a car, it really was not easy for me to join in with activities as I would. A member, Maria, gave me a ride for the following time, when we were selling doughnuts. Krispy Kreme doughnuts were really tasty, far better than the Wal-mart ones, and I wanted my girlfriend to try them someday. We were selling for two days in front of the supermarket under the BBS tent. American...

To read from the beginning, click HERE (Continued from Part 03 ) --> SALES It’s all about selling something. It always was. In fact, nothing would have happened if no one had had not sold anything. It’s where all of the fun, the excitement, the competition, the challenge came from. Selling glasses was just like that. Since we chose to sell glasses, the company’s name became FrostPint Glass Company. According to some calculation of Break Even Point analysis, each one of us FrostPint had to sell at least 12 glasses to be able to even the cost. Number twelve didn’t seem much, but it was not easy to go over. I calculated in my head, “Let see, twelve. If I buy two, my friends hopefully will buy five, and I will have only five left to sell. Easy!” Unfortunately, I was wrong again. $8 for a glass was too much for any of the international students, especially Vietnamese. (Sometimes occasions like that made me hate how poor we Vietnamese were). My Korean roommate, having...