Myth Presentation Reflection

When we were assigned to do the reading for Myths. I was confused of what all that information was about. In the past I had never been exposed to that kind of information, so everything was new to me. Definitely, it made it easier doing a group project on them. I got a better sense of what myths are all about. My group and I decided to do our presentation on the Male Divine, but our main focus was on the myth “Thor’s Duel with Hrungnir”.  I enjoyed working with this myth because we related our myth to the theme of father and son relationship. In addition, I enjoyed working with my group peers. In our presentation we introduced the gods that were on our myth, gave a quick summary on the myth, and showed video clips. The class seemed very engage with our presentation.

 

10/18/2012

Today, we had myth presentations in our class. I truly enjoyed every single one of them. Although I read some of the myths, I was disinterested by some of them. I actually stopped reading some. When my peers started presenting it was eye appealing. The reason why was because there was fewer information and it was straight to the point. In addition, illustrations and video clips helped me visualize the gods. I think showing images to people can help them understand the concept better rather than lecturing them. By lecturing them you can loose your audience.  I was amazed at how creative people were on their class activities and powerpoint presentations. I enjoyed the powerpoint with the animations, it just looked so vivid and easy to picture everything.

Blog Reflection

During our class period, most people had the opportunity to read their poems out loud. All the poems that were presented to the class were great. I was impressed with some of the poetry I heard. There are a lot of talented people in class.  Also, the poems were very creative. I think poetry is a good way where people can express their feelings and thoughts.
For my poetry, I wrote from a personal point of view. My first poem was about how I met my boyfriend at CSUN and how it was love at first sight. I met my boyfriend back in my sophomore year in a Chicano Study class. It only took one date where we had a great conversation and we knew that we were meant for each other. I would of never thought I would of met my special half in a class at the most random time, but things like that do happen. My second poem is all about living for the day of today. I always used to worry and try to live for the future rather than the present. Until one day I realized that I had to live day by day and stop worrying about the future. So now I tried to value every day of my life and enjoy it to the fullest.