First Impression

I have totally different impression of what to expect from this class. At first, the one word that I could think about is essay, essay, and essay…..But that thought vanished when I heard the word “Blog” coming out of the professor’s mouth. I am going to write a blog for this class? Is this a dream? Certainly not because I am writing one now. I like the professor’s idea of turning this class into a fun class by writing a weekly blog and at the same time maintain the level of sophistication of writing skills. I also like how he drags the class with stories and support for participation from the audience. This class is much more entertaining and brain stimulating compared to the other English classes that I have taken so far that is monotone and boring.
I have learned a lot from this first week of class because of the idea that each group clusters have to come up with a keyword for the blogs. So far the keywords that we have discussed are culture, technology, and deconstruction. My favorite among those three is culture, since most of my blog revolves around the world culture. As Raymond Williams said, “I’ve wished that I’ve never heard the damned word” (R. Williams, 1979: 154), explaining the complexity of the words because there are a lot of subdivision of cultures that we already have encountered. It is interesting to learn about the word culture because from there, even though not directly, at least I got the idea that culture plays an important part of creating a persona for each society.
In conclusion, the professor’s idea of experimenting with online blogs certainly are effective because as one of the student have said in the class, now we all can read, compare and comment on each other’s blog.