Week 3: Famous Last Words

This week has been tough for me. I chose a unit that was hard for me to get through. I used up all of my ahead time just trying to get through all the reading and dairy post. Luckily today I was able to get a day and a half ahead. I hope to use this weekend as time to get ahead as well. I really enjoyed the storytelling I did today. I took a short story without a lot of detail and made a new story based off of it. I got to be pretty creative with it and I didn't think it was that hard to do. I read an amazing story told by Elizabeth Harper. She wrote about the same story that I did in week 2. She made a completely different story than I did though. We both read Cupid and Psyche but she focused on the bandits’ part of the story where I focused on the Cupid part of the story. Elizabeth’s story was very creative and written quite nicely. Her story was one of the best story telling’s I have read between the Epics of India class I took last year and this Mythology/Folklore class. She is truly an amazing writer. I get into my groove by brainstorming ideas about a story to tell while I am reading the story. I come up with many ideas and then throughout the next couple of days I come up with a story that basically writes itself. It’s all in my head I just have to type it into word. Manly to spell check myself and so I know that it meets the word limit. Then I find a picture and I’m basically done. It’s pretty much that easy. Hopefully it will stay that easy. My other classes have really picked up all three have had homework to do which probably helped make me lose my jump ahead but I will get back ahead. It will just take a little time.

Good Times Lie Ahead

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Week 2: Famous Last Words

This is week two of this class and there still hasn’t been that much writing. I got all good comments on my storytelling for week 1. So I would say that is my best writing so far, even though I wrote the story last year. I have been really struggling with trying to come up with topics for my storybook this week. There are so many options that I cannot narrow it down. I know I would like to write about a fairytale or trickster but I cannot find the story I want to base it off of. This has been causing me major problems. I did ask for some help from our teacher. So hopefully she will be able to lead me in the right direction. My other classes are up and going. I have already done two lab assignments and did a homework that is due this week. I can tell I am going to be very busy in the next couple of weeks and I hope I can stay a week ahead in this class. I would like to keep getting more and more ahead but other classes will be the deciding factor. I should be able to do that as long as I plan my time wisely and stay focused. I got to read a couple new peoples introductions and it was crazy to see where they came from. Both people traveled to Oklahoma for college. I think that takes a lot of guts to be able to move away from everyone you know. I considered going out of state for school but when the final decision came I stayed right here in Oklahoma. I applaud them for their bravery. I have not really had a lot of time to watch the news or read anything in the newspaper. I hope my semester keeps going well.

Busy Beaver

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Week 1: Famous Last Words

So far everything I have done has been before school has even started. I learned from last year that working ahead is the best way to keep from being stressed in this class. Though I never really got stressed because I enjoyed the work we did for the class I was in last year. I am actually writing this the Thursday before school. I guess I could be called an overachiever. So far the orientation week has been pretty easy. A lot of the material is the same as last year and we are able to use our work from last year or do a different assignment. I think that is a great idea. This makes the beginning not redundant. At this point I am excited for classes to start back up. This is my last year of college and I am excited to graduate. I have no idea where I will be next summer and that kind of scares me. Everything will work out in the end. I have yet to do any major writing for this class yet. That will change shortly though. I have been able to give feedback on the differences from last year though and that is nice to feel needed. This is actually kind of hard to come up with ideas on what to talk about since it is the first week. I do have to up at two thirty in the morning to go work. I have been inspecting at a job site in Newcastle the past month and a half. They are working on a bridge. Tomorrow, they are going to pour the concrete for the deck. The deck is the part that you drive on just for clarification. Tomorrow is also my last day at this internship. Back to this class, I hope I am able to come up with a good topic for my storybook this year. I really enjoyed my topic I chose for the Epics of India class last year. That will be a hard one to beat but I will try this year.

Be Yourself

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