Final thoughts

I absolutely loved this class, and I'm not just saying that to get a good grade..I have never had a class quite like it..I love the idea of nothing really being wrong, you're never "wrong" you just see things differently and are not marked off because of that..I feel that I am a much better writing using the tools that were taught throughout the course, especially about the opening and closing paragraphs, to make them pop out and be interesting and end with a bang. For some reason, I feel that I will take that lesson away the most out of all of them.

I also never liked poetry before, never thought I was good at it, and certainly never wanted to write any poetry, but now that I have learned how to go about it the right way, I actually enjoyed it, and I think the poems I wrote were pretty good. I am thinking about entering them in the writing contest, which is something I never would have thought possible before this class.

I feel that I have had such a good experience that I want to change my major now from math to english, I loved it that much. I feel that I am much more cut out for the english realm now and look forward to taking more classes. I can only hope they are as good as this one.

Videos

I watched the video of Vik Muniz and how he makes art out of everyday things. I really enjoyed watching this and learning about his life and how he started doing projects like this. When he told the story of being shot, I was amazed that he was able to pull himself up and get to the united states and do what he does.

I also like his descriptions of creativity and how he sees it in everything, even on the fur of a dog, which I thought was hysterical. Some of my favorite images were the half tomb stone for someone who isn't dead yet, the clouds, wire drawings that look like pencil drawings, ,but my favorite was when he took white sugar and put it over black paper and made pictures of children. I thought that was a one of a kind thing that you won't see anywhere else. It was great.

The next video I watched was Ueli Gegenschatz soars in a wingsuit. I like how the people start out telling us about their lives and what they did to make them want to do what they are doing. The paragliding, skydiving and freediving are scary enough, but what he does is just scary, but amazing. Wingsuit flying looks just like flying like a bird. I would have never of believed it was possible to be out there actually flying on your own like a bird. His favorite was base jumping, which seems nuts to me, but he really seemed to love it. The shot of him on top of the air balloon was especially cool.

Even though I find it very sad that he died doing these tricks, I'm sure he was very happy with his life and doing what he loved to do. We may not understand it, but we can respect him for the achievements that he made.

Open Mic

I throughly enjoyed open mic night..for some reason I was not nervous at all, I guess it's because I have such good classmates :) I thought everyone did a great job and it was a good avenue to stand up and share our work. The hardest part for me is actually writing whatever it is I'm going to be reading, so once that part is done, reading it is the easy part.

I was sitting more towards the back and it was a little hard to hear some people..I would suggest maybe a day before the event to go and practice with the microphone and the sound system to see how it works out before the actual night of.

Overall it was a great experience and nice break from the classroom.. I would definately do it again.