on to the next...

If given the chance to get rid of the none essential things in my life and pack up and go far away from the place I am now, I would.  I think so much about traveling and after taking this class, I'm more committed to doing it.  I travel as much as I can now, but this time I want to stay somewhere long enough to start talking with that place's accent.  There is nothing more enjoyable than becoming emerged into another place's culture.
This has been such a great semester, I wish it was longer.  I also would have loved for this class to be mobile and travel with the class to different places across the U.S. to gain a full experience of what the authors we have read felt.  I'll take with me Annie Dillard and Joan Didion everywhere I go because I want some of their "know it all attitude" to rub off on me.  Hunter was a bit outrageous for my taste, but if I travel and happen to meet someone like him, I think I'll buy him a cup of coffee.
I think on my travels I will write short stories about the people that I meet and even make up stories about the ones that I don't.
I really do believe that everyone has a story and because I am or consider myself a writer I think it is my duty to write a story for those who can't.  I think that as a student, a daughter, a worker, etc. I cannot find the time to sit down and just think about writing because I have so many other things going on.  Maybe that is why I'm always feeling like I'm missing something in my life.  I'm looking forward to my graduation from Undergrad, maybe I can find the time.  I told my sister that the one thing I was excited for was to be able to start reading for pleasure again, when I'm in school I hardly have the time to read material that I want to read because of all the other English literature I have to read, but now once the summer hits, I want to read books that I have been meaning to get around to.  She called me a dork, I'll take that.

This was such a great experience and I'll take everything that I have heard with me, wherever I go or wherever I end up.


Have a great summer class!!!
-Natalia