This week I am working on getting my portfolio together. I have to rewrite a lot of things and it is going to take me till the weekend to get everything together. I am ready for 104 because I think Ive been ready for a while. I feel like I have enough skills to make it through 104 and get a decent grade, I was in honors and I was in AP English and just didn't take the test for I was busy with photography things.

This week

This week we had to read our papers out loud to the class. We had to print out the correct amount of copies for everyone in the class so they could go along as we read them, and they could correct any mistakes in the paper. I myself was not ready for this. I am not much of a get up and read my work in front of anyone. It could be two people and I still would feel nervous, and want to pass out. But I got up my courage and read it anyways. I saw a few mistakes, with grammar, as I was reading it but I was overall pretty pleased with my paper. My paper was over interracial relationships and my experiences with them and how its been dealt with in the past. I got a pretty good review from the students which pleased me as well. Though I hate speaking in front of a class this exercise did help me. I think it is a good one to use, so we can see what an audience thinks of our papers and if they are attracted to them or not.

This week we talked about out Facebook fan pages. We all had to go up there and talk about our spot and about our fan page. Wendesday we had no classes, which did me a great favor, because I really needed to sleep, and I was out till 3 am. It was a good day. Today we talked about the David Letterman Building, which was the only Fan Page left. Today she also told us that we have to do our Individual reflection, which we can put in our portfolio.

We have been making a fan site on facebook for a little over two weeks i think. I think we have the bet place on campus actually, because everyone goes there. There isnt a person really who goes here, that lives on campus, who hasnt been the Atrium. It is the place to be. You get food you buy books its an all around great atmosphere. Also this week i forgot to post my revised version of project 3 that was due last friday, i am so forgetful. this week has been chaos. Hopefully it slows down.

Kopple

I like how he went to the prison in California and spent time with them. I never really see prison interviews and see how prison people live. I think that opens up the eyes of many people, seeing the way they are treated. I was astound by the over whelming number of people there, that were over flows.

I dont like revising that much but I do it anyways, because the teachers tell me to do it. When I revise I stress out because I go back and read the paper that I wrote and I dont like any of it. It sucks so bad. But then I think to myself, well hey you dont have to change the whole thing. Then I go and do what I have to do. But when it comes right down to it, I usually change the whole thing because I didnt like the way it was written and the way it sounded when I read it out loud. The project 2 for me was a hard one. I was writing about Indian Culture in India referring to the movie Slumdog Millionaire but I decided that I really couldnt put my soul and heart into it because it wasnt a community that I was personally involved in. So I changed it, which comes with revising, and switched to the Body Modification community, but mainly focusing on tattoos, since the picture I used was of tattoos. I am pretty happy about what I wrote but I know it can be way better.

Writing

There is a lot of things I need to do, to get myself back together, I have been slacking off due to my depression. I need to just get back on track, I have to do good this semester because I have to come back to this school , because I AM NOT going to IVY TECH! Right now my heard hurts. I need to write my 2nd project, I have been trying but I just get stuck. I need some inspiration. I need to smile.

I live my life in diversity. I live and breathe it everyday of my life. And it is not just the color of my skin but the way i appear to other. I live through it with the clothes i wear and the piercings i have and the tattoos i have. Many things about my personality and being is a part of diversity. Diversity has a lot to do with me, and it is not always the best kind of diversity. But whatever. Everyone lives in diversity and you just have to embrace it and go with the flow. i think you should embrace the diversity with you. I think you should support it.

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“We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.” - Maya Angelou

Insight

I forget the letters that I got, but my personality style is unorganized and goes with the flow, I am creative and like to do what I do. I guess that is me, i'm not much for planning and doing things inside the box, i'm more of go with what I have and live life how it comes at me. So I guess the Insight Game got me pretty much correct.

"The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person."

— Frank Barron

So i never really watched the inauguration when i was in high school, frankly i did not care, and sort of still do not. But thats just me, I am not that kind of person, all about politics and stuff, i have much more things on my mind. I rather just sit at home and do art then think about healthcare and all this other stuff, i guess i leave it up to all those fancy people in the world. So when i went to the thing where they were reshowing the inauguration i guess i had to pay attention. The experience wasnt that great, i still after watching didnt really get anything from it. It all was just kind of a waste of time, and Im not trying to sound rude or anything, but its just how i feel. i dont know, im just not that kind of person, still.

Starting off on a bad foot. I forgot to post my blog for the week, but I've decided just to do it anyways. The first week of class was a very interesting one for me. I didnt expect to see new faces in the class, i was just getting use to the old ones. I dont know how well they are going to adjust to how or class acts and goes. But I guess it will be a new experience for them all. We did some stuff over the syllabus and all that jazz, like we did the first week. But now are being forced to go on a MLK day thing. Like we have to go to a multicultural event. I think I am going to go with Mark. Since he decided he would start talking to me, which is a very odd, because I dont really talk to anyone in this class. So I guess I'll Just have to see how these things go. I hope this semesters experience is as good as the last.