So far...

As I was thinking and looking back over my blogs that I have done so far, I realized a couple things. One being that I feel more comfortable with trying to discuss things that we have gone over in class and blogging about it. Another was some of the things we did in order to try and bring the literature to life. Not all of them worked, actually I found some of them very strange, but there were also some that I found very helpful. For example, the painting project, as Andrew said in his blog, “Thursday in class we had to paint a picture using a passage from the book of Joel. I was not looking forward to it because I really suck at drawing and painting. I have an extremely big imagination but I can't put what's in my head on paper with any kind of resemblance.” That kind of describes what I felt going into that activity also, and I was not expecting to get anything out of it. Once we started the activity though, it stopped being about how good my drawing was going to turn out, but instead it became about how much it really made me try to understand and dig into the book of Joel. That is something I would most likely have never experienced if it weren’t for this class.

Also, the visit to the graveyard was kind of a surprise to me. I expected it to be a drag and slightly uncomfortable since I didn’t know anyone buried there. Once I got around that environment though it really seemed to help me understand where C.S. was coming from while writing “A Grief Observed”. The point I’m trying to make is, that I got a lot out of the first half of this semester and I obviously didn’t have an opened mind the entire time. So, I am looking forward to the rest of this semester and going into it with an open mind.