Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Last Year Reflection

This freshman year has been really crazy I have learned a lot about Drama and writing in general. I remember when I first came to ASTI and I was so excited for English because we weren’t learning about Shakespeare. We also started learning about debates and it was all good. And then we started. We started it on blogger, and I was juiced. I had never seen a blog or at the least made one.  My first blog experience in all I think was OK. Personally I don’t’ like blogs, because I don’t like typing what I can say. I’m a voice person and I in blogs the emotion and personality I bring to my voice I cannot bring to my writing. Plus I have to type what I can say in like 2 minutes I think it is an extremely boring waste of time.
But to say the lease my first couple of blogs was okay I guess. This is a direct quote from my first reflexive Essay

”During my first Quarter of writing my blog posts received responses affected how I look at things in general. Over a course of one Quarter I've written seventeen blog posts. Some blog posts have been very controversial others which have been boring, others very lazily written, and some which just make me angry to see the response posts. My first blog posts where just assignments, but as I progressed I seemed to be starting very controversial debates a lot of which were on the topic of race. After a couple of those debates, I slowed down on my writing and just put boring stuff on blogger I knew people wouldn't read.”

I feel the same now as I did before. I looked at blogger statistics and my most controversial posts were the most interesting posts. This includes Swagga style Part 1 and Part 2, and is the N-WORD okay! I personally liked these views. I still believe that no matter what people say my writing is still the bomb. But the big issue I started having with my blog is that; I got tired of the stupid comments people wrote. I feel like writing is not my best subject so when I put something up on blog just to put there doesn’t mean you go ahead and write really rude comments. Now if we were talking about this in person them Hey I could go ahead and reply all I want in the meanest ways. But unfortunately I can’t put that emotion in my writing. If you haven’t noticed already my writing is not the best. I strongly dislike Google docs so I don’t’ really like writing on there. I’ve realized that when I don’t’ go ahead and edit my work it sounds really choppy. Like when I said:

“Maybe it’s because I'm black but do inter racial fashions annoy you? Sometimes I say this because ever since the sagging pants era started in person other than a black that was saggin hid pants, always had some negative comment coming from them, But when Black guys start dressing like white guys with skinny jeans and skate boards no one says anything. WHY IS THAT?”

I don’t can’t tell how many errors I see right here. I feel like if I would have edited and re-written my words, it wouldn’t’ have sounded so bad. So once again If I could say them instead of type them things would have been better. But unfortunately I can’t do that.
              
After My whole big explosion on blogger over some stupid pointless blog posts I stopped writing comments like that. Instead I‘ve been doing a lot of boring basic writing, doing it just to get the homework done kind of blog posts. I looked at my blog posts and at then end of my blog posts that I wrote in the first semester like a dummy I continuously wrote “Please give me your feedback”. What the H*** was I thinking. Why would I ask for peoples comments?  When deep down I don’t’ really even care what they thought. I think that maybe I just wanted to get the quick word limit down or I just wanted to have an ending but now that I know I’m never putting that ever again.
               
Also I feel like blogger is a place for people to go ahead and say their feelings with ought doing it in person. There was like no emotion going on at all, I saw a lot of blogs were people who never otherwise would have the guts to say something to your face used blogger at their release plate to go off on you. But that’s not me I do not argue over the internet I do it in person, so I didn’t like that aspect of it.

My favorite Posts by far are Oakland is Hella bomb! And Police Officers. The majority of my grammar and spelling in my posts are really bad. But I don’t know what it was but I had some pretty good grammar. I have to say that I absolutely love my posts. I felt really bad about the Police one though because later I found out that Melissa Ma’s dad was a police and I felt sad that I trashed talked police. Honestly I hope I didn’t hurt her feelings because she is such a nice girl but if I did I apologize Melissa Ma (and that should mean a lot because I don’t apologize very often.)
              
So now I’m coming to the end of my writing and the thing is I only have one more posts left on blog this one and I only have this one to talk about in my last writing.  Oakland is Hella Bomb! That was my favorite posts. I got so many reply’s to that one because I trashed talked Alameda but who’s gives a f*** I had so many Oakland people back me up on that one. I felt so proud when I wrote that posts. I didn’t see not one grammar issues (maybe there is one but still I ain’t seen it). So to end off English Ciao! and writing blogs has been a new expierence.

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