REFLECTIONS For Week One

1) There's only one thing that may affect my participation in this class is that I'm naturally a shy and quiet person in class. I like to keep to my own thoughts and I know that this class is different then most and I'll have to learn to speak what's on my mind. Other than that, nothing else should affect this experience.

 

2) Freshmen year in Honors English we had to either receit a long speech from the story Romeo and Juliet or make a 10 minute video summarizing the events in the story. My group chose to make a video. I thought making this video would be a drag and I just wanted to get it done with. But it turns out that I had an awesome time making it and being in it. Plus I got to make it with a bunch of my friends and it took us longer then necessary to make it because we were laughing so much. Making this video made me realize that you can have fun learning things in various ways. To this day, only reading Romeo and Juliet once, I can tell you what's it about and the main details about it.

 

3) So far I'm excited and worried about everything. When I learned that we had to make a blog I was nervous because I have never done anything like this before and it scared the poop out of me. But at the same time I was excited because this is something new and if this class didn't require a blog I probably wouldn't have EVER made one and it excites me that I can do it now. This is just the first week of school so I have no clue what is in store for me. I look forward to even more amazing and cool ways in how to learn. Our life isn't going to be like school, where we show up to a classroom, sit down, take out textbooks, and learn. No life isn't that easy and I think this class is practical in the ways we live our lives. That's the the way we are supposed to learn things, in a real and practical way.

POETRY #1.

1) This poem is called the " The Laughing Heart," taken from Charles Bukowski.
2) I find it ironic because the poem talks about life and death and the audacity to start to new things, but yet the commercial is about levi's? Levi's have nothing to do with what the poem has to say.
3) No I don't believe that it does reflect Bukowski's reputation. Most of his other poems are dark, whitty and sometimes cynical, but "The Laughing Heart" has a much lighter mood in which it encourages its readers to be independent and risk takers.
4) For the first question I went onto youtube to see if they mentioned the name of the poem, when they did not, thats when I searched some of the sentences I heard and it gave me Charles Bukowski's poem. For the third question I searched Bukowski's name and it gave me his biograpghy and the site had all the listings of his poems and short stories. It also gave me some examples of his poetry then I compared them to "The Laughing Heart."

Laziness kills

This summer, like the three summers before this one, I was assigned summer homework. Unlike the past summers laziness got the best of me and I didn't complete my summer homework. There is something about summer that always causes me too slack off and do nothing. Why is that? The fact is I have no clue. I feel disappointed in myself for not completing my summer homework and this feeling of disappointment is something I never want to feel again. I promise to work harder now and to complete future assignments because I don't want to let others down and most importantly I don't want to let myself down.