Week 14: Famous Last Words

Well, this marks the end of this class for me! It is really a bittersweet feeling. I have thoroughly enjoyed allowing my creative juices to flow these past 4+ months. I've written things, both in storytelling assignments & for my storybook, that I didn't know I was capable of writing. I was able to learn more about myself as a writer and what style suits me best. I learned more about what kinds of stories I like and what kinds I don't really enjoy as much. I was able to meet new people through this class and catch up with old friends. This has to be one of the best classes I've taken, and I've been at OU for four years, so that's saying a lot! The way this class was set up was the absolute best. I didn't have to worry about someone's opinions getting in the way of grading. Sometimes I felt like in other classes, I had to write to the style of the teacher and not write how I liked to (still grammatically correct and all). It's a bit hard to explain, but I was just incredibly happy to have a class where we were graded one effort and doing our best. For 20+ years, we've been graded the same and as humans, we are all different and learn in different ways and therefore perform differently as well--not necessarily worse or better, just different. That's why I have enjoyed this class so much. We are all students trying our best, writing our best, creating stories and projects to the best of our abilities. And the results of that were amazing! I read so many great stories and learned so many things from other writers. I loved this class and will recommend it to any of my friends that need the credit but also a class to learn more about themselves and others as students. I could write on and on about my experience in this class but all I have to say is it was an A+ course that I enjoyed to the fullest.

We did it ya'll (Image Source).

Growth Mindset: Meme

I am almost finished with my classes. I still have three finals left but this past week has been my most hectic one. It should be all downhill from here, God willing! We are almost done with school and the beginning of summer vacation. Here is a little motivation for us all.

We almost done with the semester (Image Source).

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A little Dead Week motivation (Image Source).

Week 14 Reading Diary: The Giant Crab and other Tales

The Giant Crab and Other Tales retold by W.H.D. Rouse

For my last week of reading, I want to finish off with...you guessed it! More children's' stories.

One of the stories I read was one I read before for a previous reading diary assignment. It tells of a crocodile wife who wants monkey's heart to eat so the husband tries to get it for her. In the first story I read, it was the son who wanted to get it for his mom. In the story, the crocodile's husband tries to trick the monkey into getting on its back to get delicious fruit on the other side of the river. After the crocodile gets the monkey on its back and the monkey realizes what is happening, he tells the crocodile that he left his heart in the tree. The crocodile falls for the trick and ends up taking the monkey back to safety! Even though I've read this story twice, it never fails to entertain me and show that the power of wit is a strong weapon indeed!

Another cute story was called the Mouse and the Farmer. In the story, the farmer always took care of the mouse and to repay his kindness, the rat brings the farmer a piece of treasure buried in his farm. From that gold, the farmer buys food and gives some to the rat. This continues day after day until the rat gets nice and fat, noticed by the farmer's cat. As the cat is about to eat the rat, the rat makes a deal that he will give the cat all the food the farmer gives him. The rat gets skinnier, noticed by the farmer, who then gives him a "glass home" to protect himself. When the cat comes by and demands food, the rat rejects him, which results in the cat eating the rat, glass and all. I laughed in the part of the story where it said cats can digest pretty much anything...just not glass. So the cat ends up dying and the rat escapes. The story ends with the rat and farmer continuing on with their friendship of generosity and kindness! Such a cute story!

The unlikely friendship (Image Source).

The last of the stories that I really enjoyed was called The Monkeys and the Gardner. A master's gardner was needing to go away for a bit but needed someone to tend to the garden. He then asks monkeys in the trees to water the plants while he was gone. They agree and end up taking the plants out from the ground, because they thought they could measure the water the plants needed according to their roots' length. The gardener comes back to see his plants drooping and scolds the monkeys, calling them fools. The master then says the gardner is the fool, leaving monkeys to take care of a garden. This story was so funny!! The last line by the master was the highlight of the story!