what's at the end of the rainbow?

Francellys S. Maysonet Rodríguez  Prof. Cynthia Pittmann  INLG. 3135- 002  30 May 2018  Group Project When I was on high school I took an exam to see if I could pass my English basics in college and I did, so that’s how I ended up taking English literature this semester. A class in which I didn’t felt really prepared for because one thing is a written test and an other is speaking the language. Our group is named The Crossroads, and it is composed by five people including myself. My partners names are: Alexandra Knight, Jose Oyola, Janeliz Roman, Ashley Diaz and me; we are The Crossroads. We chose crossroads because we all have different paths that get connected at some point. I can truly say that in half of the times that I was supposed to speak for the group or only for myself I felt so nervous that even the ideas I came up with to mention and present, would come out wrong it wasn't till our last classes that I felt less nervous and more confident in ...

Francellys S. Maysonet Rodríguez Prof. Cynthia Pittmann INLG. 3135-002 23 May 2018   Literary Contest Ceremony             I’m a new year student and for sure it never crossed my mind that a Literary Contest Ceremony, would be so good and entertaining as it was. I arrived early since I had a class before the event and waited with Alondra, Kiara, Isabel and Angela until we were allowed to enter. I love food with my whole soul, so you can imagen when I saw the table with all the little things to eat and enjoy I felt in heaven and oh God, there were little cones that you filled with spicy king crab, the event had not even started but I already gave it a ten out of ten. We got to meet Isabel’s and Angela’s moms and that was nice. Once the doors were open ad we could walk in we registered, and they gave us all a manual to follow the awards; from speeches to the Literary Contest winners. They also provided a evalua...

Francellys S. Maysonet Rodríguez  Prof. Cynthia Pittmann  INGL. 3135-002 24 May 2018  Go For a Walk  When I started the walk I really didn’t thought that I would really notice something intriguing at the least. I'm usually on my smart phone, if I’m arriving at the university, walking to classes or leaving the university, either by looking at  social media or watching a new series on Netflix or Kiss anime. I love watching series or movies but now a days I’m more into series or to be more specific, anime series. When I’m really into a series I tend to binge watch it and there for I don’t really look at my surrounding, at least when I’m on campus. I know it’s not a smart decision, to be walking and not be aware of my surrounding believe me I'm aware. By doing this exercise I thought I might actually make it a thing in my life and stop being on my smart phone every change I get.  I decided to start after going to the Literary Contest and suppo...

Francellys S. Maysonet Rodríguez  Prof. Cynthia Pittmann INLG. 3135-002 22 May 2018 On Looking  “As we grow up, over the course of days and months, we learn to deal with the confusion by paying little of it mind”. (11Horowitz) Imagen those first days as a new born child, how from muffled sounds and floating in our mom’s tummy, we come to a room full of sounds. A sound vibrating constantly at a rate we weren’t used to and accostum to such a world by blocking it and getting used to those sounds. That made me think, so is in the very first moments we come out of the womb and get use to the sounds and things that surrounds us, that we start to lose sense of every little detail that happens around us.     “It is forgotten because we failed to pay attention to the journey to begin with”. (2 Horowitz) When I read this specific line of Amateur Eyes by Alexandra Horowitz, it struck me because it’s so true. Every moment at least now this days, people se...

    On my tourist for a day I went to "Islote", it's a beach in "Arecibo", that's usually for locals and there aren't really tourist on that area. I went with my cousin Ivana, and my boyfriend Diego, since they know and have a better pronunciation than mine and I really didn't wanted to be called out on not being a tourist. I choose "Islote" because it's a surf and locals beach so there really are never tourist on that area and I wanted to see how we would be treated as "tourist". Let me tell you there where a small group of high schoolers or college people; couldn't really pin point it. They where the only once I there so when we tried to engage on small talk with them they really were annoyed by us and in other words told us to get lost.  When we left "Islote", we went to a small restaurant that I'd gone to before at least two times and this time the waitress was a young lady who understood English really...

                                                                      My shield      My memory since I was little are filled with great beautiful moments. But I will always remember how insecure I was of the appearance of my two front teeth. They were super present, so present that they literally stood in front of all my other once. Because of my big teeth I wanted to have something that took away in a way the fact that I had really bunny like teeth. So since I can remember I'd ask my mother, aunts, and grandma to fix my hair every day in the morning before school or going out. I also loved having new things done like braids, different types of ponytails, buns and cool pins too. With time I noticed that it was my way of trying to be known by what I wanted to portray and not as a girl who had bunny ...

    🏠  💭           Home           🏠  💭 Does home represent the same thing to all of us, does it vary for some of us or does it just have its own meaning from person to person? On “Identity” by Peter Roberts, he mentions that “home embodies a psychological factor of attachment which probably issues from our primal instincts of territoriality”. Since we don’t really need to “mark our territories” in the time that we are living, with time we’ve changed what we define as home. It is more of an emotional bond created through experience of a place.  All of us humans have a place of birth, a nationality that is our political identity.  To some people their place of birth doesn’t matter a lot, but I believe that a person should have a bond or connection with their country. Something that makes them have a sense of being where they belong. This may also be a place where you feel welcomed and at peace because...

Francellys S. Maysonet Rodriguez  Prof. Cynthia Pittmann INGL. 3135-002 3 May 2018 Tourist for a Day  Today I’m a tourist, and I need to act the part fully, or at least follow the routine I’ve created for when I’m on vacation. I woke up around eight in the morning feeling relaxed considering I don’t have work to do since I’m on vacation. I got out of bed and prepared some breakfast and started thinking of who I could recruit for this mission; People to accompany me in a day of looking and acting like tourists, at least two people who fitted the stereotype of looking like they may not speak Spanish and obviously at least could decently speak English, being straightforward, people who spoke better than my broken english. Then it dawned on me I had the perfect candidates.  I have a cousin that’s Boricua but lived all her life in the states until this summer when she moved to Puerto Rico with her family and we’ve become inseparable. She’s going to be great becaus...