{"id":5,"date":"2024-01-10T21:08:53","date_gmt":"2024-01-11T04:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nonarellaventstudies\/?p=5"},"modified":"2024-01-10T21:11:33","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T04:11:33","slug":"introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/nonarellaventstudies\/2024\/01\/10\/introduction\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">Hello to everyone here!<\/p>\n<p>My name is Arella Ng and I&#8217;m a second year student at UBC (though this is my first year here). I&#8217;ve declared my major in Psychology, and I intend on pursuing grad school in the future (thinking of going into clinical or research) and declaring a minor in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a &#8220;learn gal&#8221; studying texts derived from a &#8220;lang r\u00e9al,&#8221; whose goal is to be a &#8220;mind&#8217;s heallar&#8221; and definitely not &#8220;anger all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Moving on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">As of now, I currently have classes involving literary analyses, etymology, Biblical studies, and creative writing. So far, I&#8217;d like to say that I&#8217;ve been enjoying the content for all of them. It&#8217;s been pretty fun overall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">&#8230;The 30+ mandatory textbooks I had to purchase and drag back to my dorm were not. My right shoulder is still aching from that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">So one of my classes this semester involves the study of Romantic literature, this time in the modern era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Since I&#8217;ve taken RMST 201 last semester, why not take 202 as well?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">I mean, it would fulfil my literature requirement for graduation. Besides, I had a great time in 201. For the most part, we mostly learned how to analyse a lot of love poetry and literary pieces concerning faith, mythology, and feminism in mostly French, Italian, and Spanish. What I liked to do during those times was to read the original text and teach myself any unfamiliar words (considering that I do have a background in Spanish, it has been very fun comparing it to Italian given how similar the two languages are).<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">In addition to this, I do like reading &#8211; especially when it comes to young adult fiction. After all, it does help me as a writer as I continue to edit a fantasy-dystopian novel I&#8217;ve been working on.<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the videos in Romance Studies, I remember thinking back to the sources I&#8217;ve read in RMST 201 when Dr. Beasley-Murray asked for the location of the Romance World. From the sources I&#8217;ve had to read, the answers would primarily be France and Italy, as well as Spain and Portugal. Another answer I was thinking of is that the Romance World would be located in any place where people can speak a Romance language. So it was a bit of a surprise, when he said that the Romance World has no physical territory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Looking forward to what&#8217;s in stall this semester!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello to everyone here! My name is Arella Ng and I&#8217;m a second year student at UBC (though this is my first year here). 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