During this second semester of my last year in the
University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus, in my English course, Journey in
Literature, we learn important concepts like: inner and external journey. Both
concepts are related with our identity. To discover and understand better our
external journey we were assigned to create and write on a blog. Our principal tasks
were to reflect about our daily and academic experiences and write about them
in our blog. My blog’s name is That Road Trip Called Life. I came up with that
name because I think that if we just stay in one place, taking up oxygen from
others, without discovering, without reflecting about our journeys and social
problems, it is not the right way of living a life.
In my web page I write blog’s reflections about
movies, books, traveling memories, academic activities, and daily experiences. I
had the opportunity to understand concept like identity, “othering” and clearly
see the difference between a traveler and a tourist with every single blog post
reflection. Nevertheless those concepts help me not only to understand better
my assignments, but also to understand and react with good ground to social
problems. Also after writing those post I clearly saw how my writing and
analytical skills improve. This blog also helped me to understand better my
daily situations and to derive and put to words my concrete position about
them.
From my blog, the post that I must enjoyed was the one
of a “Day as a Tourist”. This reflection consisted of having a day in Puerto
Rico but with the one and only condition that you had to spend that day as a
tourist. On that day I had the opportunity to understand better the identity
concept. I realized that even thought Puerto Rico is a small island, most of us
still have a lot to discover from it. Also I realized that what make you the
person that you are is not only the language, the food, the people you are
surround by, your history, your culture, but instead the sum of them all.
I know that I will continue using this blog as a way
of expression and for me to people hear me out. This blog had helped me to
understand better myself, discover my external journey, and to get in harmony
with my internal journey. I encourage everyone that is reading me and does not
have a blog, to immediately create one and began to write. This is an excellent
tool to open and express better your ideas and feelings to the world.
Excellent reflection!. First of all I like how you explained the meaning of your blog title. However, by reading your reflection I found that this type of mechanism has helped you understand a variety of life concepts. I agree with you when you said that this is an excellent tool that function as a way to express better your thoughts and feelings to the world.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with you about the external journey. As you mentioned we had the opportunity to learn about different concepts such as identity, “othering”, travelers and tourist. Like you the post that I most enjoyed was “A Day as a Tourist”, definitely this activity allowed us to understand better the identity concept and our own identity. I also think like you that I will continue using the blog as a way of expression. Your reflection about the external journey and the blog is excellent!
ReplyDeleteGreat reflection about your external journey and how all this blog helped you understand yourself better. I also believe that it was a great tool. Good job Claudia!
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