Week 13 Famous Last Words

(From one college student to the next. )

So as you may see from the lovely meme above, I had my own personal seat on the struggle bus this past week. This past week and the weeks to come have and will be overwhelming. I utterly dislike the end of the semester because every professor wraps up their class the same way. You either have a bunch of papers, lots of tests between dead week and finals week, or you have so many menial assignments you start to wonder when you will be able to study. The past week was not as bad compared to what I have waiting for me in week 14. One thing I am happy about is this class seems to lighten my stress load from other courses. I am also sad that I did not get to enjoy this class as much as I should have. It still has not really hit me that this  and my other classes will be done in two weeks, but I am relieved because I need a break from school. It has been a really rough semester with taking 17 hours. I will never do this again. Anyway, if you are on the struggle bus, then I hope that you all conquer these last two weeks. This is especially true for all the graduating seniors. Good luck!

Week 13 Tech Tip

For this week, I added the weather gadget to my blog. I think it's pretty cool and will be adding it to future blogs I may have.

Essay: Parents and Children

I really liked the story about Clever Elsie in this weeks reading. For this weeks essay I thought I would change it up and write about parents and children since there was not really a trickster and fool in this story. In this story Clever Elsie is close with her parents and family. Her parents are looking for a man to take Clever Elsie's hand in marriage. However, they know no one will have her if they think she is not smart. So Hans comes along and is interested in Clever Elsie. To get to know Clever Elsie better they have dinner where Clever Elsie is sent to get beer. Upon her discovery she finds an axe and cries because she thinks about what if her and Hans were to have a son and he was killed by the axe. So she weeps until some one comes down to check on her. Clever Elsie's mother and father come down and weep with her when she reveals why she is crying. I thought it was really funny that everyone ended up crying in the end except Hans. I could just picture exaggerated cries from each family member. One more louder than the next. This is not something you see all the time. Some behavior I feel are common to most parent and child relationships is pushing your children to be with someone. It seems the older you get the more inclined your parents are to want to know about your love life and when you're going to get married and have children. I think that was definitely apparent in this story. Anyway, I would really recommend this story and unit. If you want to read, click here.

(Clever Elsie)

Reading Diary A: Grimm unit

(illustration by Walter Crane)

For this week, I chose the reading unit Grimm. One of my favorite stories was about Clever Elsie. I liked this story because everyone thought that Clever Elsie was so clever, but I did not really agree. In the story, Clever Elsie's parents want to marry her off, but no man will have her unless she is smart. So a man by the name of Hans comes to court Clever Elsie. Hans decides if he want to marry Clever Elsie by having dinner with her and her family. At the start of dinner Clever Elsie's mother asks her to get some beer, but Clever Elsie never comes back up from getting the beer because she is crying. The reason why she is crying is because she thinks that an ax will kill her and Hans future son. So each person one by one comes down and asks Clever Elsie what is wrong and sit and cry with her until Hans is the last one at the dinner table. Hans comes down and sees all the commotion and decides he will marry Clever Elsie. The ending of the story I did not really understand, so in my storytelling this week I will probably change the ending.  

Grimm unit (read it!)