Gerardo’s Weekly Journal #11

This past week was quite busy and chill in a way. Although I had a lot of things to do in regards with completing assignments for specific classes and having to manage everyday challenges that go on in life, everything went well. For this week, I started doing some Christmas shopping with my sister and went all through the city to find Christmas decorations and look for interesting things. I know it’s a bit early to start Christmas shopping, but my family usually starts everything early, so we don’t have to rush buying things when the time approaches. Also this week I went to visit some of my mom’s family in upstate New York. It was a fun ride going to upstate New York and it was nice visiting some of my mom’s family members upstate, after not seeing them for over a year already. With all Christmas shopping that my sister and I did, we completely forgot about Thanksgiving and just skipped it. Thanksgiving is another holiday, my family enjoys a lot and I enjoy it particularly as well. It’s a time where my family and some of our closest friends join us together to have thanksgiving dinner. Although it’s less than two weeks away, I really can’t wait to stuff myself with a whole bunch of food.

As for this week, in my writing class for psychopathology, we were recommended some good poetry/films that had to deal with some type of psychological disorder. In our discussion, I was introduced to very good recommendations of movies that had to deal with psychological disorders and I recommended some in my part. I recommended Girl, Interrupted (1999), and its a movie I would recommend many of you to watch. Also as for this class we read an essay called “Navigating Genres” by Kerry Dirk that overall taught us a very good lesson about the use of genres. It taught me that genres are crucial in the development of a person’s writing and the way we use it would have a whole different effect on what we write.

Overall, this week introduced us to many new things and can’t wait for what is to come for the rest of the semester.

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