Author: Genesis (Page 9 of 12)

Today I am 18 years old. Let us say that I feel very reflective towards my educational experiences. All my life it has been a challenge for me to go out of my shell, I was told “You just need to start speaking, don’t you feel like you complicate yourself? Do you even talk to any other students outside of class? Everything that occurred was a way for me to have better communication and speak for myself but in this time period I just could not. All I know is that slowly within time , I started overcoming that fear of talking but this experience made me think differently towards education .It was fall during my sophomore year , It just will always feel like it was yesterday .This was around fall season , It was quite chilly but not really . Around 3 o clock school was about to end , My last class was math , It was a pretty packed class full of people who were just starting their second year of algebra just like me .The room had a lot of space , new technology like smart boards and a lot of creative examples for that course in the walls . It had a beautiful blackboard and a huge desk with our tools for the day we used in class to solve our daily equations. Within time The class became a bit hectic most of the time, I feel that because most of the students were very harsh with my math teacher . They are barely payed sufficient attention to her, most of them did not put effort what so all.  Like always I entered just on time, I was casually talking to a few peers about how their day was? You know casual conversation. She began her lessons 15 minutes after the class began, Sometimes I had hard time focusing because of the noises other peers made. Most of time I kept looking at the clock, it was a horrible experience being in that setting every day. Unfortunately, I sat in the back because in the beginning of her course people were coming in and out. She always thought that I did not care as well just like the others , She always said “ That I shouldn’t talk to other peers or just didn’t like the fact for the reason the class was distracted most of the times .In my mind , I felt pretty upset because for educators it was a major conflict to get me to speak . I was not doing “good” in participation or just in general. More questions started to roam again “If I was being told to start doing something why stop it now?  Till this day I feel that she just gave up on helping others. But I ask myself “Why give up on all of us? Why not put importance on the ones who are having problems in class? Do not make one student feel a type of emotion where they ask themselves what they are doing right is now somewhat wrong. 

The article ” Maybe I Could Save Myself by Writing ” written by Jose Olivarez sent me an important message to myself and when it comes to writing / genres. I love his story; it relates to me because my family comes from another country. Although I did not live Ecuador , I comprehend Jose’s emotions of feeling like he did not belong for the reason many Latinos in society today have a difficult time and asking themselves ” Is this where I belong ” Am I In the right place ??  Jose’s background story motivates me to write a piece myself just like he did! But in order to know what we are going to write, we as writers need to find special recipe to obtain our goal. From what I have read I feel that one of ingredients is to express yourself. Why you ask?  Jose Olivarez finds this a way to answer your own questions that you feel need to be addressed but in literature format. Another Ingredient I found was to do some research with the help of the audience, A writing piece always must target the reader. How can this be done? Easy talk to any peers or friends and see what they think about your creativity.  Throughout this process, there will be questions in the way when it comes to writing.  What type of techniques do I have to use to obtain my audience?  One of biggest concerns is not receiving any sort of attention to my ideas as a writer or what if my words do not make a difference into the world of literature itself.  I have had experiences in school where I was told that my writing techniques are not as convincing to the reader, in other words change my writing to make it more interesting. But from all the assignments that has been assigned, I am starting to learn many new things I did not know at all before. I can always take feedback in order to have a better thinking just like Jose did.