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The Final Blogpost?

So unfortunately, I will have to make this blogpost all sophisticated and serious. We are assigned to do a little wobbling (weebles wobble, but they don't fall down.) Much like this course, we all wobbled and had hoops to jump through, but we never failed. © 

For me my wobbling moment was definitely the ethnography project (and probably everyone else.) To have a project that I haven't done anything like before and have the tasks inside of the project I never done before made it very overwhelming. Why is there a video project in an English class? What does a map have to do with literacy? Why is underlife not a word!? Okay, that went a little too far but I am getting tired of seeing this red squiggly line. 

All this wondering and pondering I am doing for this blogpost makes me think of Pink's music video "Try" more specifically these lyrics:

"Where there is desire, there is going to be a flame

Where there is a flame, someone's bound to get burned

Just because it burns doesn't mean you're going to die

You gotta get up and try, try try,
You gotta get up and try, try, try,
You gotta get up and

Try

Try

Try."

Anytime you come to an obstacle, whatever it is, you have to take risks and chances, like YOLO.

Just kidding, but in reality there "ain't no mountain high enough." I/you/we/he/she/they can do anything we want to if we just put our minds to it. The ethno project seemed somewhat easy at first. There was a plan and actions to complete it. Along the way however, things got thrown at us. We had to reroute our plan and take a detour (and face more construction problems on 85.) But in the end everything fell into place and we had a kick ass video. (can we swear on here?) It's just like God's plan for you and me. He has a plan for us whether we like it not and we can be mad, sad, glad, whatever but in the end things happen for a reason, and they work out.

Just like from a previous blog post of mine, nothing is ever final, things can always change. (and from my Lit Narrative) what would you do without an eraser?

(side note: I did not choose this screenshot.)

Literacy Narrative Reflection

• What it was like for you to figure out what to write about?

Well for me, I was kind of confused a little and somewhat scared. What am I going to write about? Metaphor? Oh Lord, isn't that comparing things without using "like" or "as"? Let's steer away from that topic. So then a memory story. Well since it is an English class, I wanted to do something Englishy, so I decided on writing about my terrible Wife of Bath paper.

• What it was like for you to revise your work.
• Include here specifics about your revision process as you moved from ideas in your daybook/notecards to your first draft, second draft and final draft and anywhere in between
• Include here particularly the strategies you tried from the homework assignment from October  4th.

Part 1) Well let me pull out my handy dandy envelope that conveniently first my day book (good job Lacy!) Card 1 review: Well I talked about state & AP tests but I threw out some elementary and middle school things, and some of my teachers (well not literally.) As I continue to look through my note cards, I really focused on my Wife of Bath paper but I didn't mention anything about the "what would your friends or parents say about this" because I was more focused on my paper and this paper.

Part 2) Ooh for this bullet I get to re-share my amazing picture!! And from draft 1 to draft 2 I really did follow this!

• What it was like for you to edit your work (include here the editing goal(s) you came up with in class.

Well to be honest, my paper wasn't even a complete paper by the first deadline (when was that?) And for the second deadline I first of all knew that I definitely extend it. It gave me a chance to revise my draft and even then point out the good and bad. For the final draft, I knew I had to put a little more salt and peppaaa in it. I'm sure if I go back in February I can keep revising it.

• What else do you want to say about this assignment?

I thought the assignment was for me good because it allowed me to revisit some of the mistakes I made and it showed how I grew as a writer, even though I have a ton of room to grow. I know it was a bad thing to wait til the last minute to revise it, but I thought it was interesting to revisit my draft from almost 2 months ago because it really gave me an opportunity to revise. And to be honest, I thought it was a good idea (maybe you can use it in the future ;)

Ethno Review

So when this Ethnography project started, I had no idea what to expect. Then I heard video... O_o
A video? Oh Lord, this isn't going to end well. So we started brainstorming and came up with the concept of UNCC students eating and thinking about where food comes from, like from the farm, to the manufacturer, to the store, and then the creativity kicked in. I will admit we waited until about a week left to do the project, but as you all know it was a blast. But seriously, who would spend $9 on a case of water?? Come on Harris Teeter, your VIC specials aren't getting any better. So after nearly 50 takes, a few hours of editing and revising, and then creating the final product, voilla it is finished. I am going to show a few pictures of our storyboard and some "deleted scenes" which are mainly just pictures that I probably took illegally.

And again, here is our final product: (will be removed off YouTube 12/31/12 so I don't become too famous. :)

Ethno Review-o

So after weeks of planning and running around it was finally here: filming day! James Cameron Jr right here. So since our topic was food we have to of course, have food. We went to a restaurant and there was too many people so it was a little awkward but then I went to my house and filmed it. Literally after about 45 takes I finally got what I wanted. We ran into some bumps along the road but tomorrow we are going to finish it up and have a Hollywood Movie.

Ticket Prices:
$10 per person
Popcorn $5 a bag
Drinks $3 -no refills-

Showtime: Once in lifetime:
9:50am. (approximately)

Invite your friends, family, and dog for this once in a lifetime event.
Or else.
:)

Ethno Update

So for my wonderful late blog post, and being that I am too lazy to get my day book out, I am going to do my blog post on my Ethnography Project.

So last week we decided to do an iMovie, or at least try  to. I never understood the concept of it but hey, you gotta take risks. We went over an outline again and feel fairly confident and ready to start shooting. I got some new ideas over the weekend that I am not going to share on here (I know you are all desperate to know) but I will give you a preview.

Random tangent: When I was typing confident, I want to type confidant which reminded me of Betty White and the Golden Girls (#teamBetty).

Now, I can't get that song out of my head.
I will give you a preview of my idea, and share some Betty with you. :)

Geography

So for my first reflective blog post in a long time, I decided to go way back to the Mapping UNCC project we had. I noticed that when people placed their marks on the map, they marked actual geography things like landmarks and buildings, conversations, and things that went beyond literacy. Like whoa. Yeah, I am kind of tired right now but my mark was the Belk Tower. Yup random. But I thought it was interesting because as I walked around it to go to the ~front~ of the library, not the back, I saw the First Amendment in a plaque. And I was like ~oooh~ bingo. This went beyond literacy because without the First Amendment, we would not have freedom of speech, basically any freedom to express ourselves. Without it, we would not have books, music, art, or anything.

Here is the link to our Google map: https://maps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=212959646260677519898.0004ccbaff19a7fdd81d6&msa=0