This has been a long and interesting journey for me. And at last I came to the destination which is my final portfolio. Although, they say that it is about the journey and not the destination and I truly believe that saying. My journey consisted of learning and discovering new things that I could put in my works. Each assignment was focused on something else and new which makes the entire portfolio interesting.
This website is a collection of my works during the year 2018. As the title suggests this is my little writing cove, where ideas and thoughts got collected together by the waves of my mind. The entire portfolio consists of five pieces each representing something different. I have to admit that I had fun writing certain works over the others, however I tried to put as much effort as I could in all my pieces. My personal favorites are the Heroes/Villains and Why the Hate. I feel really honored that I could write a work about my mother. I feel like I did a decent job. They say when an artist draws your portrait, they add or change some things because that is how they see you. That is how I feel about my piece. It might not be perfect for someone, but I feel like I portrayed my mother in the way I truly feel about her. Although I did struggle with the audio part. Managed to do the interview, but it was in my native language and I didn’t manage to find a way how to add subtitles to it. I’m not really smart when it comes to these things and I didn’t want to bother anyone either.
I also had a lot of fun writing a short story for the Why The Hate piece. Writing short stories is something that I personally find the most enjoyable. I also got to show a bit of history about my country that not many people might know. Speaking of my origins, I tried to talk about my home country as much as I could in my works. It is partly because I am still kind of new to the states, so for example when we had to describe a place in one of our assignments, it was quite a challenge for me. I struggled the most with the last assignment as I don’t feel really comfortable talking about the topic presented. We should face the reality and its issues; however, I am more of a dreamer. I deal with such things by escaping to imaginary worlds where I can take a break from the cruel reality.
I feel like my three biggest strengths are creativity and describing. I can’t really come up with a third strength. I feel like I lack with my language skills and sometimes I might get off topic. However, I think that I try to be creative and make the piece more interesting for the reader. I’ve also been told that I am good at describing so I would list that as my other strength too.
Overall, I am pretty happy with my final portfolio. I hope that anyone who happens to read it, finds at least one of my works interesting and enjoyable to read.