Dear Reader,
My jump into the New Year was a shaky one for me. A lot of things in my personal life made it difficult to concentrate on school work. My mom had a major surgery after battling with cancer for two years. She suffered complications after the surgery and it was going to be several days before she would be stable enough to come home. I was told by my family to go home and work on my school work, they knew I had papers to write. Well easier said then done; however, I knew that successfully completing this class would put me one step closer to reaching my ultimate goal of becoming a registered nurse and I knew I had to focus. Although it has been an extremely challenging quarter for so many reasons, I have managed to find a balance between my personal and professional life and was able to stay focused on school. Miraculously my mom recovered and is home doing well. She assured me that I should stick to my school work and not worry about her because she was going to be fine. Aside from my personal challenges this year, I have found English 101 to be a big step up from English 98. In the past major writing assignments came easy to me, but not this quarter. The topics were challenging and the standards set for the papers were even higher. It really hit me that I was enrolled in a college level course. I did enjoy my time in this course and I am really excited to complete another class. The online experience suited me this quarter, since I needed time with my family and I will admit I do like coming to class in my pajamas. I was surprise to find out that a part of me missed coming to class because of all the laughs I had with friends in English 97 and 98 and I loved getting face to face feedback from my teacher, it always helped tremendously.
As of right now I work with children at an early learning center and I enjoy it very much. It is a satisfying job to help with the learning and growing process in a child’s life. My interests in working with children have led me to the fact that I would like to continue working with them, but in the medical field. Thinking about my career as a nurse excites me; it helps me to stay focus on completing school, and allows me to keep in site of my goal. So far I feel a sense of accomplishment in knowing that I am determined to get there.
This quarter we talked about identity, community and tradition. We learned how to explore different ways of thinking about things, through discussion boards, blogs, groups, and papers. When we talked about identity, I took a deeper look at who I was, and where I came from. There are so many different factors that make up a person’s identity, which I had not thought about before. In the community unit, I learned that everyone has their own ideas about what makes up a community and what are the most important needs of a community. To me a community is any group of people that can offer their support to a person when they need it and that person can offer it back. With the tradition unit I have fun. I got to take a look at what I do for holidays with my family and I thought about what new traditions I would like to start one day when I have my own children. I also enjoyed it because we got to talk about pop culture and about how times have changed and how traditions have changed, whether accepted by society or not. For example people believe that it is traditional to make a friend or get to know somebody in person and that meeting people on the internet is not the same thing. Where as others who have accepted the new forms of communication find it to be easier to chat with friends over the computer instead of in person.
I chose only the pieces for my e-portfolio that best reflect by abilities as a writer and I hope that you enjoy reading each piece as much as I have writing them. Thank you for taking the time to view my e-portfolio.
Sincerely Tasha S.
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