Life in Motion

Ok, I'm going to be honest.

I HATED this story.

It was really boring.

How this story registered in my brain: I lived in many houses..blablalblalbalalbalalbalfiddycentblalabalbalbalbalblablbalelephantsblablablblalba

Yeah, not exactly my cup of tea.

And not entirely yours, either, I hope.

It just wasn't fun.

Basically, this story was divided into segments where the author went on and on about how she was going back and taking pictures of her many childhood homes. It could have been entertaining, there could have been more of a story attached to each home. There could have been more of a story, period...Anyway, each section was exactly the same, as all she did was simply describe her house photography. So exciting. I didn't like it. Oh, and another thing, it was too long for her to talk about the same thing the whole time. She should show some pity on her readers and just shut up!

Now that's just honesty, folks...

My ADD is kicking in..I think I need an adderall....

On the Bus

The wheels on the bus go round and round...

This story was short, but it definitely got its point across-all-in-all, it was really good, short but sweet. It basically describes a woman's long daily journey to work, from NYC to...some town in the middle of nowhere. The trip is four hours (imagine doing that everyday,) but the people she meets along the way are what make it so interesting. One day on the trip, she meets a woman named Jewel, who goes on and on about life events. It bores the author to death, but she still sits by Jewel and lets her rant. At the end of the story, Jewel realizes that it is the ranting that saved her, but the author says that she wasn't even listening that whole time. Jewel saved HERSELF. That's what I liked about the story-the message-the fact that Jewel had the chance to save herself, even after dealing with this drama for all those years. I'd like to see more stories like this in the future.

Silent Dancing

The thing I liked most about this story was the fact that I could relate to it. How? The first thing, I noticed about the story was that it was about Puerto Ricans, and I'm half puerto-rican, so I recognized some of the foods and stuff that was mentioned, because I've eaten them! That made me connect with the story a little bit more than someone who might not know what those things are. I also liked the story a lot because it described the author's childhood life in the barrio, but it also flashed back to that video, which captured not just her story, but the stories of her family members, such as her cousin's abortion. That made the story as a whole way more interesting than if she was just describing her life. It was nice to hear about the differences between immigrants and those who had already been living in the states for awhile. There were obiviously differences between the two, so it was interesting to learn about them, and how others thought of them as well. I liked how the video story and the author's childhood story were like two different stories put together, but they both helped get the same point across, they merged together to tell HER story, and that's what made it so interesting. Overall, I really enjoyed it. It was my second favorite of the batch we had to read for this assignment...now, on to my first favorite...

Response to "The Unwanted Child"

Ok, firstoff, this story was way better than the last one we had to read. There is not even a comparison. I actually wanted to read it without falling to sleep, first of all. Second of all, it was about an interesting topic.

The situation was of an 18-year-old pregnant girl living in 1958 America. Much different than what it would be like to be a pregnant 18-year-old now, which is what made it so interesting.

The story was everything that layed between the lines. And in this piece, that was alot.

The main character had gotten married at a very young age, and she and her young husband were trying to make their way through college. Meanwhile, she was trying to follow up on her own dreams, while deciding where to place the other peoples' dreams in importance...how did her husband's and upcoming son's dreams compare to her own? How could she live and deal with all of this at such a young age?

The story goes on to describe more about her childhood, and her mother's as well, how her mother was an unwanted child.

The end made me really want to hear more on the subject. She said that she wanted the baby, when she could have given it away. But there was hesitation there. She still didn't know how she was going to live with her husband's dreams, her son, and balancing all of them together while still going to college. She wanted to be a good mother, the way her mother had been, growing up a country girl in Montana. It was a pretty interesting story, I enjoyed it. I really wish there was a part 2 to elaborate what would happen next.

Response to "Out of the Garden"

I really didn't like this story, I'm not going to lie.

At first, it sounded somewhat interesting, to hear about the narrorator's grandmother from a different culture, but then it just got increasingly boring and more about farming, and other related subjects that 99.825% of college students don't want to read about unless they are agriculture majors, which I don't think actually exists unless you are going to the University of Idaho to try out potato planting.

Yeah, not fun.

Basically, the story was about a girl and her various memories of her grandmother throughout life. Not very exciting.

The situation is basically the same thing, that basic plot, but without all the reflection that the author adds in between. To be truthful, that reflection, or the real story behind the situation, just made the piece way more long and boring than it actually had to be. So I wasn't exactly excited to read it. The ending was dumb too. If she wanted to know if the frickin mushrooms were bad for her, she could just eat them and find out? Seriously, who cares?

This piece was just not an interesting concept at all. I'm not a fan. I do indeed like potatoes though...

Workshopping!

So this is my blog response to how I feel about the workshopping that we did.
I liked it! I liked reading other people's pieces and giving feedback to them, and I also enjoyed reading my piece to them and getting feedback from them in order to better my piece according to others' opinions. I really enjoyed it, and learned alot about what other people have been through that way as well.
The one thing I didn't like about the workshopping process was the fact that we had to read our pieces twice. I didn't have to read my piece twice, simply because it was so long, but the other people had to read theirs' twice, and I got the same thing out of it the second time that I did the first time, so it was just annoying to have to read it twice. It only amplified my ADD,i didn't listen as much the second time!! lol, but I still payed attention, and learned alot from the workshop process. It was really nice to get others' opinions on the piece and know what they liked and didn't like, to be able to fix stuff based on what they (the reader) enjoyed. Overall, I hope we do it again! It was a fun process and I learned alot!

dizzy

that picture I put up makes me dizzy

it was the only picture on my roomate's computer that wasn't of her though.