One Last Post

For my Journey in Literature class, at the beginning of the semester, we were assigned to create a blog where we would be documenting what we'll call our external journey. In this class, we've emphasized about our internal and external journey, where as the internal journey was through our Journey Journal's (I wrote a post a few weeks ago about this, you can read it here), and our external journey is through this blog. It's been a very long and hard semester, but as May is just starting, and finals are coming in just two weeks, it's time to seal this blog with one last post.

At the beginning of the semester, when we were assigned to create this blog, I was very excited about it: it was the first time that I'd do something like this, and it seemed like an assignment that wouldn't be a struggle to do each week. The first few posts we had to create were a little harder to do than I thought they would be. I couldn't tell the difference between an essay type work and a blog post. As I go back to those posts, they seemed a little more formal and stiff, where as time passed by and I actually got the hang of writing, they became a little more loose and fun. I learned how to edit my posts so that they contained images, videos and links, making them all the more visually attractive, and in the end finishing with 14 posts (including this one) in my blog. In this posts I talked about different activities that we'd undergo in our class, such as conferences, readings, reflections, and many more.

For me, the post that I enjoyed writing the most was Tourist for a Day. For this post's assignment we had to visit some place in Puerto Rico and act as if we were tourists, that included our clothes, our way of speaking, how we acted, and all that. When I wrote this post I had so much fun because I got to relive all the things that I did that day. I added lots of pictures, links and even a song that I'd heard that day, making that post the most edited one I've created. In that post I noticed that sometimes we go through life thinking that we've seen it all, especially regarding the place that we live in, but seeing with "tourist eyes" made me realize that there are a lot of little things that we just ignore. It taught me to be more attentive of places and people, and how important everything truly is.

Overall, this blog has been a great experience that I will never forget. It was a great way for me to develop more as a writer, and for me to learn more about this type of writing. It was very fun and almost easy way for me to write my thoughts about a particular theme, and for me to be able to reinforce those thoughts with pictures, links, and all that. I do think other students would benefit from this type of work as I did myself. I encourage people to sometime in their lives to try something new and write a blog, because it's not about who sees it or how many people see it, but the way that you are able to express yourself through other forms. It's been a very productive semester, and my blog is proof of that. I will miss being able to do all this, so with this, I close my blog Journey Through the Unknown.