Photo homework

First I wanted to choose one of my photos with cornrows (hair style), because I've changed since then, and it would be easy to write about it, but I ended up with this one. This photo was taken 2 years ago on 27th of January 2005. It was taken at the Old town (which was built by the turks, during the Ottoman empire). It's special because you can see the snow behind me. You probably wonder, what's so special about snow? Well, where I live we don't see snow so often, in fact it was absent for quite long. My parents told me that it was snowing when I was born. I was born in 1985 so you do the math. I thnik that this photo says a lot about me. Why? Because, behind me you can see my town Stolac, which I really love (I thnik that's in my
genes, my whole family is really bonded to Stolac), another reason why this photo says a lot about me is my face expression, which is very familiar to the people who know me, it shows my personality, it shows I'm a calm and positive person.

Two years passed since this photo was taken and I think I didn't change much. Ofcourse I'm more mature now, and I'm more worried about the future now, then I was then, I was still in high school, back then, to be more precize, forth grade of high school. Now I'm on college studying english. Back then I didn't know what was studying like, I thought it was something completely different from high school but now I know it's almost the same it's just a bit more comprehensive than high school was.

In the end, what does this picture say about me that I didn't expect? Maybee , it says that I'm into hip hop because of the baggy clothes, that I'm wearing on the photo.
p.s. As you can see this photo is a bit pixelated untill you open it.

Reflection

Every time you want to apply for some work , required virtue is to work in a group or as a team.Working in team, you have to know how to give or take advices.On our lectures we definitely learn lot of things.The thing we really appreciate is team work. On Monday, 5th we were working on modes of inquiry .Our mode was reflection. Before our assignments, we were listening to ''Shouting across the Divide'', some kind of radio-drama, released in the States. It was about a Muslim woman and her dealing with life in the States after September 11th ,and her daughter's struggle with friends in school.We definitely went through some kind of diversity training, eventough we knew nothing about it.

We learned about situation of Muslims in the States and their fight against every kind of religious discrimination. Every class we had with our professor was a diversity training. We spent hours learning some new stuff,that seemed foolish or even stupid sometimes, but afterwards we see that all those foolish things have their own purpose. All those stuff we learned and heard helped us with writing and reading, but not any kind of reading, it is reading that makes us discover the entire structure of a written piece whether it's an essay,journal,movie review etc. Our writing also improved, and creating more logicly gathered parts into circle is improved too.

On Monday, we were also reviewing a picture of a woman during the Great Depression.We never thought that one picture can have that many secrets.We never knew that a picture is actually a book we read with our mind, thoughts and feelings and that in every picture there are hundreds of other ones. Another interesting part of this reviewing was that we found out a lot from each other, working as a team or group.I've seen and heard my colleagues describing that picture, and while they were explaining it,entire new opinion of those people was created inside my mind. That was definitely diversity training.

As a team we can think faster, harder, and better. As a team we will develop new ideas, and we are going to solve issues and problems, we couldn't solve on our own.
We learned some new words,and phrases.That's why our class didn't go downhill. We learned from other one's experiences, we learned how to express ideas in front of a group. We even heard of an American writer- John Steinbeck and his ''Grapes of wrath''.

All in all, in class full of smiles and joy, you can learn lot of things, things good for you and your life, believe me. A smile opens even iron gates.

Respond to Anne Lamott's essay ''Shitty first drafts''

On my way to the internet club I had entire homework in my head ready to become an information,ready to become a creation of my mind.But(there is always but when it comes to my essays),when I saw the keyboard it all just evaporated somewhere,God knows where,and that evaporated essay that was supposed to be written is actually shitty first draft.
When I saw that my essay just disappeared,I kind of wondered,how difficult it is for someone to ''throw'' his emotions and thoughts on the paper.It's not ''a piece of cake''.
My entire family is u bunch of artists,but when it comes to me ,I suddenly turn into a black sheep of family.I just do not know how to get into it,get into the basic points and issues.
I admire Anne Lamott and her way of creating some kind of master-piece essay with all the parts so wisely collected in the perfect chain where every part of it can be the beggining or the end of essay.Every part is logicly connected with hidden and(or) exposed thoughts and feelings,that is why every paragraph can actually be a non-shitty first draft of an other essay.

In her essay using metaphors really did the job.Sometimes when reading someone's essay you can see the absence of metaphors,like mine maybe,but putting metaphors in my essay wouldn't look nearly good like in Anne's essay.Lack of imagination prevents me in doing that,that's why I try to avoid it and explain things like they are,but reading Anne's essay I figured out that people are becoming more interested in it by creating some new metaphors by seeing the written one.

Anne Lamott in one spot in essay says something very simple but so strength-giving,that helps us to see something more clear.She says:

In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

Simple.Isn't it? But see this.This essay is awesome, very good writing,written by a very intelligent person,but one thing-she admits us that this essay was a shitty first draft in the beginning,but read it now, it is almost perfect-an essay about an essay.This part of essay is actually to encourage all of you shitty-first-draft-writers to continue with your writing because it is probably worth something.