Week 15, Reading

Reading

In this course my favorite readings were the ones in the beginning that were the classics that I had not had the chance to read before. I also really liked the last few weeks of the reading choices, the European and British units. I had read some of those before, but not all of them. 

For the reading diaries, I liked to copy and paste the parts that really caught my attention in the original story. Sometimes I wanted to use bits of the exact story, or I just used the key ideas for the story. I tried to write it like it was a diary that no one else was reading but me. I tried to capture my inspiration at the moment from reading the story. It was easier to do on the readings that I liked the most.

I found that doing the readings was easy to keep up with, but it took more time and efforts to do all the writing for the class. Even the comments. I would usually take one day a week to be able to do the weeks assignments. I don't know if it was just a lot of writing for me because I was trying to do it all in one day or if it's just my perception.

I like that the readings are varied and you can choose from many things to read for the week. I would recommend to future students to take advantage of the assignment in the beginning where you have us map out what we want to read. I think having a goal and checking yourself is helpful. I forgot a few weeks into the course that I had created a roadmap for myself. It was good that midway you made us do another one. I tried to stay closer to that list and found it was helpful.

Week 15, Reflections

Reflections

I cannot believe how fast this semester went. I am relieved it is coming to an end and yet sorta sad to see it all go. I had a great time in this class. I felt like a kid in a candy store without a budget. Being able to read such great literature, which is inspiring and always makes me want to write, and then getting a chance to retell the story however I choose. I learned a lot about language and grammar from making endless mistakes. I love that even though I must have been driving the instructor insane with making the same mistakes over and over, she cheerfully urged me on to fix the problems and keep going. I think this helped me greatly even in my other courses. A few weeks ago I had a ten page paper due in all of  my other classes. When I had to set down to write them I was hyper aware of where my problems are and I double checked on them, and had the links to look it up because of this course. What a blessing!

I love to read and write, but I had not really been doing much of it until this class. It forced me to get back into things that I enjoy. I had so much fun reading everyone's stories. I think what I did the best at in this class was letting my imagination run wild. I like the stories I wrote, but I feel like they are the readers digest version of what they should be. I hope that I can take the time to take the stories to the next level. I did sign up to take the Indian Epics course next semester and I look forward to working hard to doing a better job with the things I struggle with in this course. Life is such a work in progress.