Holiday atmospheres have included all the streets of the city. Wherever I look, the ornaments of houses fill me with a positive feeling and happiness that pamper my soul. It is December. It’s the second semester, and I have to enroll in English Composition 1. I walk on the streets and I wonder, am I ready to take this class, or it is still too early for me (the uncertainty I have in myself about the English language as a second language to me, frightens me a bit). “Hey Ada, how are you”? - I hear a voice as it wakes me out of the thoughts, that have invaded my whole being. I turn my head back, and I see one of my friends I have here in US. “Hey my friend, how are you”? – I asked him with a surprised face. “I called you out a few times, but you didn’t answer me. What’s going on”? – he asked me with a strange voice. “I have been a little stressed this time because I have to enroll in English Composition 1, but I am not sure, if I am ready for that”. “Listen to me, go to enroll to Dr. Mangini class, and you’ll love it”. “What are you saying? I just finished an English class, and it was so boring. What does this have different”? – I ask with an unbelieving voice. “Just go try it and you’ll see”- he said with a confident voice. I started my reflection creating a scene because one of the things I have learned during English Composition 1 class, is how to open the life- choice memoir genre with a scene. A scene has more description and action than telling. If you would ask me before this class, to write a life-choice memoir, it would be a story with the beginning, development and the end. Only telling without any description or action on it. Now that the semester is almost over I turns my head back to see all my journey through this class, and I am happy that I heard the word of my friend, and I enrolled in Dr. Mangini’s course. I really enjoyed this class and I learned a lot about writing process. I remember the first class, when Dr. Mangini was explaining about creating a website, where every assignment would be post in a blog, it motivated me for what would come next. The creation of this website, it would serve as a digital portfolio for all the assignments. After I posted my first blog, I felt an inner pleasure because through this website, I was presenting not only my assignments, but and a part of my personal life and my homeland. Visiting my website, maybe the reader will think about a small unknown country in southeastern Europe that is called Albania. After this course, I am feeling more confident about writing in English, I know how to get out my thoughts, what kind of technics can help me to express my thoughts, how to make a critical thinking, and how to present my thoughts to get the reader’s attention. This class made me to be proud of myself for everything I have done in this class. These are some of the technics we have learned to improve our writing.
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Elizabeth Appenzeller
4/24/2018 11:32:26 am
This is great Ada! I was also super nervous about taking the class. I usually stick to online because it can be super hard for me to get to an actual class. Im glad your friend referred you to Dr. Mangini! I also enjoyed his class a lot.
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Oljada
5/8/2018 02:34:38 pm
Thanks Lizzy.
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