Within You

I started this project in January, 2019 for my Composition 101 class, I worked by myself and as a group, and both ways were fun and interesting. My project mainly focuses on a theme called " Turn to Face the Stranger; it starts with the stranger in you, the stranger you think you know very well, but when you try to ask yourself who you really are, the question sounds simple, right ? but in reality the answer is far from simple because we live our whole life trying to find ourselves, and learn from our experiences, so we are constantly changing. After facing the stranger in me, I had to face the stranger in others, what makes us different, and what divides us, how do others think, and act. I know for sure that if we stay in our bubble and comfort zone, good things will never come to us. The last topic we had in this course was about empathy during what we are going through right now as of May,2020. We are dealing with an ongoing pandemic since March 11, 2020 because of an outbreak of COVID-19, so I feel like the structure of this course prepared us to deal with this issue with maturity, and empathy, and put ourselves in other people's shoes, feel their hardships, and pain, and stay together because we are all in this together.

In this project I worked with different mixed media, and did lots of research. I conducted and recorded an interview with a restaurant manager, which was a risky move for me. I was vulnerable enough to take a bunch of photos, some for myself and my house, that made me learn so many things about photography and its cool terms, also as a group with my learning circle, we made a short video that includes different pictures about the last topic, and audios recorded by us that explains what the video is about. Working with different mixed medias can have a different effects on people, and it can be fun as well, and I know that if we limit ourselves to one specific way to approach anything in life, we will not get anywhere, and our message might not be delivered.

I do not consider myself a professional writer, but what I kept hearing from my professor that all writing is creative writing, so I am proud of the content of my writing, and the way I approached each topic, and also I feel like I risked it with some choices, but I am excited to see how that is going to pay off, and I believe there will be at least one beneficial lesson in each topic that will benefit someone along the way. After all, writing about these topics was fun because I felt deep connection to them because of how they relate to me and to my experiences. I hope you enjoy reading what my project has to offer, and I hope you will learn something that might benefit your future.