I can’t believe this our last journal entry. in one way or another this has helped me get back with my old habits of writing in my journal. with everything going on and life getting crazier by the minute, i forget to jot down evrything i am feeling and bottle evrything in. throughout this course i met some amazing people, although we couldnt meet in person, i met there cretivity and their ideas. Professor Otte was a great professor the curiculum was amazing. my favorite part of this course was the journal entries it gave me an opportunity to dig …

On December 1 we were assigned to read “Elliot Spencer,” by George Saunders. In our disussion professor Otte told us to talk about the launguage of the story. I feel like this story relates to a lot of people. for exmale the language of this story was to use grammatical errors. I feel like at one point of our lives we write just to write. for example whne i use to write a journal on my own, i wrote however i wanted because it was mine. but in a way it was how i represent myslef. i am not perfect …

halloween is my favorite “holiday” of the year. I love that you can be anyone you want for the night. you can be a princess, a hero, a monster anything you want and act it out. but what I especially love is the free candy ! I was never a fan of scary movies but always a fan of scary stories. I would go to the library and pick out mostly scary stories. I think I’ve read all the scary stories in my local library lol. As I grew older I fell in love with scary movies. however, the movies …

on October 27 we read the story of David Sedaris’ “Now We Are Five” and to me this story was a bit confusing. to recap the story, Tiffany commits suicide and her family is grieving. However, her brother makes some harsh remarks about her. Me and my peers think it his way of coping with his sisters death. when my uncle died I never acted the way tiffanies brother did. but then again he might be mad about how his sister handled the situations in school. In the stories we can also see how the mom, dad, and brother all made …

On October 22 we were assigned to read “The Disembodied Lady” by Oliver Sacks. This story was fascinating to me, it was one of my favorite readings in all the course. To keep it short, the story was about a girl who from one day to the other wakes up unable to move her whole entire body. she has a dream of soemthing like this happening to her. In my opnion the author wrote this story to show tha audince how powerful the brain can be. in my psychology class we learn how the brain works and how important every …

This week has been a bit stressful with all the homework and studying, I barely had to time to do some of my personal activities. But its a new week with new epierneces. On october 15 we were assigned to add the research artciles we would use for our writng. I went through some of the articles my peers shared and all them had great choices. I even used on the articles to help me write my paper. All of us have a strong claim and I honestly think we all did a good job with our writngs. It would …

Today I found that I got a good score on my personal narrative. I feel like my writing really improved with the feedback of my peers. I wasn’t very confident with my writing at first, I felt like it wasn’t my best piece of writing. However after the editing I did with the feedback that was given by both my professor, I felt confident with my writing. We are starting a new task today. I hope I feel confident with my first draft, and get an even higher score in this assignment.

For our class discussion this week we discussed a new topic of magical realism. I found this topic to be interesting considering that the story is all made up but still has some true meaning behind it. I like reading these type of stories because although we are told there are no such thing as beasts or mystical creatures, imagining that we can live among these creatures is fascinating. I think writing stories like these would be interesting. I remember writing fantasy stories in elementary school but maybe writing these stories would be fun during these times of worry. It …

We have just finished our very first personal narrative! For me its hard to write personal papers. I’ve always struggled to talk about experiences in my life as it makes me uncomfortable. I love writing because its something that comes easily to me like a math teacher with math. However, with personal writings I never know when its to much or if it even relates to the text. I think this was a very challenging task for me but I tried my best and gave it my all. Overall, I think I did a pretty good job in connecting the …

This week has been a new experience for me. Before covid hit our country and when we all went to school, i always peer reviewed my classmates paper but with a hard copy infornt of us. I think it was a new expireice doing it online. however, It was still very effective, i thought the feedback of both Violet and Diego were very helpful. I was happy to see that they enjoyed my wirting. Violet had mentioned that she stronge belived in what i supported which made me realize how were all in this fight together. Diego’s narrative was based …