Francellys S. Maysonet Rodríguez 

Prof. Cynthia Pittmann

INGL. 3135-002

5 May 2018

Reflections 

 My journal was covered with photos of me with doggies, with

friends, family and my boyfriend on one side and on the other side

it was covered in things I wanted to better myself in, like my mind

and heart and all around good vibes. When I started to write on the

journal I only saw it as an exercise and I even put pressure on myself on always writing about four to

 five pages. Then with time something shifted in me, one day I started doing the exercise and didn’t

treated as one, when I started writing that day I needed to vent and pour out what I was thinking and

feeling and from that moment on it stopped being a work assignment and more of a healing

mechanism. I started writing down what I couldn’t or wasn’t ready to say, stupid things I over thought

and needed to put to rest and most of all my feelings in certain subjects. You know when you think

something and then say it out loud and it sounds stupid or wrong, well you can write it down my

 friend, that’s what I was doing every little thing I was thinking, and it was consuming me I would

write it down and at the end read it. When I read what I wrote things just seemed little and easier to

deal with and that really help me. Sometimes I would read them to my boyfriend and since it was

what really was going trough my head he would understand better how I was feeling, it was even

funny because sometimes he would ask me: “Did you write something down on the journal and can

you read it for me?” and I would find it so funny.

The life compass I couldn’t understand it, I would go back read what was supposed to go on each side and do it. Once I got the hang of the life compass I even looked forward to filling it out and write my little words around it. The life compass helped me keep myself check on being more aware of how I was feeling and how I dealt with my feelings, it helped me pin point what was wrong, and I was ignoring till that moment and with who I may have been taking it out on or how certain situations may have been the reason for some stress. The compass was life a though love friend who tells you; “hey I love you, but you have got to deal with this and that”. It really came on handy for me because as a girl sometimes I get over emotional, sensitive and petty (sorry not sorry) on my period and by doing the life compass I would pin point what was going on physically, emotionally and even mentally. The life compass made me feel super aware of the fact that I don’t really have a connection with God even though I believe on God but not really on a religion. 

The multigenre projects made me be more creative and funny. They were really fun to do, I had to go through boxes of old photos to search for baby/ toddler me with my bunny looking teeth it also made me talk and think about a time where I was made fun of and I had never done that before at least with a class, I liked it because it was out of my comfort zone to talk about something that put me in a vulnerable position and on top of that in front of a room full of people I just know by name mostly. I never draw but while making the comic I couldn’t stopped laughing about how my cousin and boyfriend would come out on every scene and I would never forget that they day I had to present my drawing and explain it was the first time I wasn’t nervous at all and I was so proud about that. Clustering is a brain storm type of exercise that really help on the content I was going to discuss while presenting my multigenre, so helpful on narrowing down what I wanted to mention and what I was going to present visually.