Before entering the class I was an OK writer. I didn't express my opinions enough because in all of my other English classes the teacher had a specific thing they wanted us to write about. They told us what we had to have and they also gave a specific structure that we had to use.
As I entered the class on August 12, feeling nervous because I was going to meet new people that I haven't met, and sat down I thought that the class was going to be like every other English class I had in the past. Get assigned seats, have explained how the class works, the rules of the class, then go get a bunch of textbooks. But, I couldn't have been more wrong.
When I met Dr. Preston I thought that he was going to be like the other teachers that give out a lot of work. But, that thought soon went out the window when he introduced himself. I was surprised that he let us choose how we wanted the class to work. I was mind blown we had the option of doing the old fashion textbook and paper or we could do blogs. Then he went outside until we were ready with our decision. At first I didn't want to do a blog because I thought it would be hard.Turns out it was really easy. I liked that Dr. Preston was different from other teachers because other teachers wouldn't let their students pick what they're going to be doing in class.
When we stated our actual work day, like writing journals I didn't know how to express myself so at the beginning my journals were always short. So using a blog was so new to me I really didn't know what to do. Memorizing, recording, and posting videos to our blog was new to me too because I have never done something like that before. I believe that for the four months that I have been in this had helped me improve a lot. I express my opinions a lot more than i used too, some of my journal entries are longer than in the beginning, and I'm comfortable with using the blog.
The point were I felt the most tension was when we were getting ready to do interviews. I kept on wondering to myself if I was prepared enough with all my documents, if I had an answer for the questions Dr. Preston was going to ask me and so much more. It was like driving on a road and the road suddenly forks into two other roads. One road could be that I nail the interview and be proud of my self or the other road is that I forget the answers to the questions I was asked, I took to long to think of an answer. The day of my interview I was really nervous. Once it was time for my interview I was ready, I had answers for all my questions I had all my documents ready. In the end I nailed my interview and even got some things I could improve on.
Over the course of the four months that I've been in the class I managed to build some routines that help contribute to my success. Since I write my journals better in a quite environment so that I can think I tend to do some of my journals at home. Or there are other times were I procrastinate and I don't do my journals until Thursday so I can do my Friday journal on Friday then turn in my notebook. Sometimes I feel like the life I'm living is not my own. As Edgar Allan Poe once said "All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream." I really like that line because it makes me wonder if the lives we live are actually real or if they are just stories that someone else came up and is telling them to someone else. I also developed a habit of asking my group for clarification on things I don't really understand.
The me from now is a lot different from the me that entered class in August. I don't mean me as in I changed my character, attitude, and other things. No. I mean I'm a different learner than when I first stepped foot in the class in August. I learned how to express myself in my writing a lot more which helped write one of my personal best essays. My Essay Essay was a different experience to write because it was the very first essay were i had an outline of what to write but at the same time I didn't have an outline. The outline had what we needed to have in our essay but we could incorporate them in our essay in our own different way. This essay took a lot of thinking, rewording, and a lot of my own opinions. Sometimes I feel like I'm carrying all of my education on my back.
An experience in this course that has made me smile was when everybody in the class agrees on what we should do. There is no arguing between classmates and everybody gets along well with each other. I also smile when something funny happens and everybody is laughing then a second later the class goes quite.
When we stated our actual work day, like writing journals I didn't know how to express myself so at the beginning my journals were always short. So using a blog was so new to me I really didn't know what to do. Memorizing, recording, and posting videos to our blog was new to me too because I have never done something like that before. I believe that for the four months that I have been in this had helped me improve a lot. I express my opinions a lot more than i used too, some of my journal entries are longer than in the beginning, and I'm comfortable with using the blog.
The point were I felt the most tension was when we were getting ready to do interviews. I kept on wondering to myself if I was prepared enough with all my documents, if I had an answer for the questions Dr. Preston was going to ask me and so much more. It was like driving on a road and the road suddenly forks into two other roads. One road could be that I nail the interview and be proud of my self or the other road is that I forget the answers to the questions I was asked, I took to long to think of an answer. The day of my interview I was really nervous. Once it was time for my interview I was ready, I had answers for all my questions I had all my documents ready. In the end I nailed my interview and even got some things I could improve on.
Over the course of the four months that I've been in the class I managed to build some routines that help contribute to my success. Since I write my journals better in a quite environment so that I can think I tend to do some of my journals at home. Or there are other times were I procrastinate and I don't do my journals until Thursday so I can do my Friday journal on Friday then turn in my notebook. Sometimes I feel like the life I'm living is not my own. As Edgar Allan Poe once said "All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream." I really like that line because it makes me wonder if the lives we live are actually real or if they are just stories that someone else came up and is telling them to someone else. I also developed a habit of asking my group for clarification on things I don't really understand.
The me from now is a lot different from the me that entered class in August. I don't mean me as in I changed my character, attitude, and other things. No. I mean I'm a different learner than when I first stepped foot in the class in August. I learned how to express myself in my writing a lot more which helped write one of my personal best essays. My Essay Essay was a different experience to write because it was the very first essay were i had an outline of what to write but at the same time I didn't have an outline. The outline had what we needed to have in our essay but we could incorporate them in our essay in our own different way. This essay took a lot of thinking, rewording, and a lot of my own opinions. Sometimes I feel like I'm carrying all of my education on my back.
An experience in this course that has made me smile was when everybody in the class agrees on what we should do. There is no arguing between classmates and everybody gets along well with each other. I also smile when something funny happens and everybody is laughing then a second later the class goes quite.
