Bucket list: Travel the world

          I’ve always been really sure of this big ambitious wish of mine of travelling the entire world.  I’ve always told myself I can’t die or have any children before seeing the whole world. My biggest wish is to at least visit a part of every single continent, although the country that I most desire to visit is Italy. I wish to learn about all the different cultures, religions and people that are outside of Puerto Rico. My mother always tells me and my sister how if she ever wins the lottery she wouldn’t waste any money on material things, she would just get on a plane and see the whole world. I have always love this idea and wish to follow it even if I don’t have a lot money because we should always follow our dreams no matter what and that is what I hope to do.

            I can’t finish this class without expressing my biggest wish in life because even though this is something that has always been in my life plans, this class has encouraged me to start with this plan as soon as possible because with this class I have learned a lot about journeys and I am excited to start having my own journeys. I’ve also learned about the different types of journeys we can all have and how we learn something new in each one. But the most important thing I learned in this class is that I want to travel the world as a traveler not as a tourist. A traveler visits different places with a humble attitude willing to learn something from this place and with a purpose he or she wishes to fulfill, while a tourist looks for commodities and to have a good time not necessary to learn something new or about the cultures.

            Now I feel that after this class I know almost everything there is to know about journeys and I am really glad I took it. I am ready to start my journeys with a whole new perspective about journeys and about life because like I have said before life itself is the biggest and most beautiful journey anyone can have.  Hopefully soon I will begin travelling the world and writing about my different journeys also. But the most important thing I wish is that I can have this journey with my personal pilot and the love of my life, my boyfriend. Every journey I take with him, I know it will always be a great one just because he will be by my side. My bucket list is not just about travelling the world, but also growing as a person, learning about life and about the world but especially accomplishing every one of my dreams with the company of my loved ones.

 

Blogger’s life

             Having a blog is like having a little piece of you on the internet. I have really liked this experience and it was something that I have never done before but now I hope to keep it and keep posting more things in it. Each word, even if not many people read it, is something that you want the world to know about you. Everything in your blog is something that has you written all over it. You write and you let feelings be free and let your works be who you are. It is a world where you wish you could live in because you have created it just the way you like it. It is something that is your own and you begin to love it and get attached to it because it allows you to scream the words that people don’t let you even whisper. A blog is a free world where words cannot be silenced or stopped because you are the one in charged of it. Your words are like art and they paint your blog with what you need to say, how you need to say it and they help you express what you want others to know.

            Life should be a never ending blog for everyone where we could freely express ourselves anytime anywhere in hopes of talking or writting about things that could make our world a better place. Everyone should be able fight for their beliefs and talk about everything with everyone but in the same peaceful one can express themselves throughout a blog. People should learn how to express themselves with words or with art in a way that doesn’t disrespect or hurt other people. Everyone should respect different opinions and ways of thinking and learn from it, in the same way we do this by reading books or by reading what others put in their blogs and comment about it. A blogger’s life would be a much better way to live, more free and more democratic. A place were all thoughts could live together in a free way where they wouldn’t clash against each other in any form of violence but just hear and learn from each other like in the internet world or the blog world.

A little journey called LIFE

            I never would have imagined that when I chose my English literature class it would be something as significant and incredible as this class has been for me in my life. The last thing you think when you see a class named “Journey in literature” is that you will actually talk about journeys that people may have. In my case a thought it would be about how we can go in a kind of like journey though the reading of literature. But for my surprise the class was about everything that had to do with journeys, from the different types of journeys that we have daily until the kinds of people that have journeys.

            This class has opened my eyes to a whole new world I would have never thought that I was living. It has helped me change my perspective upon life itself. Now, I see everything that I live and that surrounds me as a journey. I have learned that every path and every challenge we have in our lives is a new journey that we live each day. I now know that life itself is a journey with an arrival day but with an expiration date we do not now. This is why we have to live each day as if it were our last and it is something really amazing to see each day a new journey in which we discover, learn, accomplish, and overcome different things.

            In my life I have had a lot of journeys both internal and external and if I had to choose my favorite ones from the pictures that I have on my Journey Journal I would choose one of my favorite external journey which has my trip to Spain in 2011 to the World Youth Day which was also for everyone a really strong internal journey and an unforgettable experience. I would also choose the pictures that represent my daily journeys, with my family, with my friends and with my love journey with my boyfriend. I would choose this because the best kinds of journeys that we have are those that are with our loved ones. The last picture I would choose would be the one where I am giving a talk to a group of teenagers in my church because helping others and talking to them about God is a journey that I have every day in my life because God is always the center of my days.

            This Journey Journal has been the thing that has helped me the most throughout the class to understand what journeys are about and to see life as a journey each day. Through writing in the journal I could think as a traveler and live as one each day. This is an incredible experience and I hope I always keep doing it or at least have it in mind. Internal and external journeys was something that I also learned to differentiate with the journal because I noticed that every day I had different internal journeys but also that in every external journey that I had I also experienced an internal journey. Do you know why? Probably your answer is right. It is all because we live in a little journey called LIFE.

Student Conference Panel

           From the moment of writing the paper without even knowing about the possibility of being chosen to participate in a student conference panel until the moment I walked out of the conference it was all an incredible journey.

            At first when the Professor indicated that some of the works we had handed in for the midterm paper were going to be chosen for them to be read in the Student Conference Panel, all I could think of was how I wished I would have done a better job. I knew I had done a good job with my essay but I probably would have made it a little bit more mine. The Professor explained how this would have been a great opportunity for those who were chosen and something we could even mention in our future resumes. I was really excited and hoped that I would be chosen but I was not sure if I would be chose because I thought my work could be better.

            When the professor started mentioning the people that would be reading their essays on the conference I was starting to get really nervous and she started mentioning a lot of my classmates but not me until the last person to be mentioned was me. I was really happy and it made me feel special in a way that I was chosen and I was glad that I would be able to have that experience. Then the Professor asked us to write a small biography of ourselves to be presented in the conference before we read our essays which had to be in 25 words. For me, this was something kind of tricky because I like to write a lot but I managed to do it in a bit more than 25 words.

            Finally it was April 10, the day of the student conference and everyone was really nervous. It was a really nice experience to hear everyone’s paper and their different opinions on journeys and travelers and tourists. I was a bit nervous when it was reading my essay but then I liked reading it to everyone. In my opinion I would have liked if there were a bit more students and professors hearing our works but I liked a lot the whole experience. I also would have liked if I did not have any class after the conference so I could have stayed and answer some questions.