Hello, welcome to my last blog entry for this class ever. I want to say congratulations to everyone. Whether you completed the program and read a book a week or not was a challenge, so congratulations. I am unsure what we were supposed to say in this last blog post, so I will summarise my experience and reflect a little. This is the third class I have taken with Jon and the second one with this same teaching system, and I enjoy them (hence why it is the third class, I’m assuming). I genuinely enjoy more and connect more when I’m not worried sick about my GPA or just trying to get the best grade possible. And while I understand that this class delivery mode is not possible in every area, I am glad to be able to experience it. I enjoyed the readings for this curse way more than I wanted the ones for RMST 202. It was closer to home for me and more enjoyable. I found consenting more with the storylines and the characters. The class and reading I enjoyed the most were Mad Women by Gabriela Mistral. I am a fan of poetry, and I wanted to see how we depicted poems in style and analysed them together. Without a doubt, the most significant part of the class is the discussions. Because I always leave having learned something new, and even when only 8 of us were on the course, I still saw a different perspective and approach to that week’sweek’s text.
Thank you to Jon and Daniel for all the effort you put into the class and my classmates for a great semester.
If you can and want, and you liked this class, take RMST 202 with Jon, it’s very similar, but the books are primarily from Romance-speaking places like France, Italy, and some in America and come in a wide variety of languages. I also enjoyed it, and it also fulfils lit requirements.
My last question for you this week is: What was your favourite text this semester? And why?
Goodbye :))
Jon
April 9, 2023 — 9:41 pm
“I genuinely enjoy more and connect more when I’m not worried sick about my GPA or just trying to get the best grade possible.”
What if we abolished grades altogether?
julia gomez-coronado dominguez
April 10, 2023 — 10:31 pm
hello Montse, thank you for your last blog post and your thoughts about the course. I think that my favorite text that I read in this class was “Papi” by Rita Indiana. I had never heard of it and I never expected to enjoy it that much, but for some reason i was able to truly connect with the story and the narrator. Its exploration of Dominican identity and culture is something that I enjoyed to learn through the voice of a child narrator who has an innocent, naive perspective. The book challenges the notions of, sexuality, gender, and class, but explores these topics in a unique way, questioning esteryotipes and traditions.