The Big Picture

This semester has been a learning lesson for me in this English class. It was my first online English class and the first class I have ever had to do a blog for. I must say it was fun writing the blogs, even though sometimes I was unsure if I was doing the assignment right. I have had some hard times trying to understand some of the reading for the blogs and keeping up the comments on our discussion pages. I must say that to me the big picture of this class and doing the assignments was to take us out of our box of reading and understanding. I cannot speak about everyone else in the class but I can say it has opened my eyes up to a lot of things. I am not a big reader so this was wonderful for me. It has taught me to look outside the box. See beyond the big picture that is always in our face. One of my favorite works that I think made me think about things was the blog that we had to write about what it meant to be an American. I have never thought about this topic until this class. I felt that I lived as an American everyday because it was all I knew but I didn’t quite know how to explain it to someone else especially someone who has never been to America. This was a fun post and I really enjoyed writing about it and I believe that I did a fantastic job on it. It has also made me think about taking things for granted and that no everyone knows about the American culture. This has also helped me at work as we are taking classes and going through all these diversity courses.