Weekly Reflection #3, 4 and 5

Alright, so since I got sidetracked and forgot to make a post for last week, I am going to combine 3 posts into one.

So basically what has taken place over the last few weeks is that we have been working on our Literary Criticism projects. My group, which consists of Kia, Josh and Christine have been working hard to try to research every aspect of New Criticism. We were each assigned to find out information about the following topics:

• Background information
• Era
• People behind New Criticism
• Real life examples and applications of New Criticism

So far, we have found a lot of information regarding these topics. Now all we have to do is find a way to combine our information into our presentation. We established that we were going to make a movie which featured us as well as puppets. And yes, before you ask, we did make the puppets ourselves. And I do say, they look quite stellar.

On Thursday, Kia, Josh and Christine started filming our movie. But from what I heard, it didn't go over all that well.
On Friday, Kia, Josh and I went to work and filmed the rest of our movie at Josh's house. Surprisingly we got a lot done, even though we got distracted for a majority of the time (listening to Gillian McKeith talking about weight loss, watching Oprah and nearly burning Josh's house down). Between that, listening to Britney Spears in Math and blowing up things in Bio, it was a very good day that day.

On Saturday, I was busy volunteering at Punk Ottawa's fall flea market. Despite what most people think, flea markets are a great place to go if you are a student on a budget, looking for cool things to buy. I ended up getting a lot of stuff, including books on English Literature, clothing, posters, CD's, Adventure Time decal, roller derby merchandise and more.

Today, I am helping my mother plan for her trip to Beirut, Lebanon on October 6th. She is going there to help rescue 2 dogs and a kitten, all of which were abused. One has a broken spine, one was shot with a shotgun and the kitten has crush injuries to both legs. It has been very hard and stressful trying to get the animals into Canada, but after weeks of negotiating, my mother was finally able to book her flight.

Between volunteering, getting caught up on my online Lit Studies course, a bio test and lab report (3rd and 4th), our New Criticism project (2nd), my sister's birthday (3rd), my mother leaving (6th), applying for a job and perhaps finally getting my G1, I have a lot on my plate. But after this week I am hoping my work load will be lightened. And that all of this will go over well.

In addition, I just found out that my mother got my sister and I a snowmobile for Christmas. It's pretty exciting because I have always wanted one. To me it has always been one of those things that I have always wanted, but know I could never have. Mainly because my sister has a medical condition which prevents her from going outside during the winter, and as a result, resorts to us staying inside all winter not doing anything. Now she and I have something to look forward to this upcoming winter. Also, it's not just the fact that she got it that I am so shocked, it is what she went through to get it. She stood outside at an auction all day to outbid over 200 people. Risking the fact that she may overbid and lose a lot of money as a result. Now she is going to get us our licences and insurance to ride it. It is legally registered under our names, so we own it. Now I finally have some responsibility and independence.

So while this week may have been stressful and hectic, in the end everything worked out and I now have some time to relax. So off to go finish up my Lit Studies assignment and watch NCIS.



"With great patience comes great reward."