Hi everyone,

This is my week 1 post.

For this week’s blog post, I will introduce myself a bit and also comment on this weeks lecture video.

For starters, I am originally from Calgary. I was born there but not all of me was created there. The genesis of the personality that I have now started in Buenos Aires, where my mother is native to. We moved there when I was 3 and remained until I was six, which, evidently, happened to be the year of Argentinas economic collapse in 2001. Throughout those three years living in Argentina, my soul and being were highly influenced by my mother’s original culture. Years later, after already having lived over a decade in Calgary, I met my father who is from Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. Eventually, I moved to his beautiful costal city and tried to be one more.

Throughout those journeys, I ended up in Vancouver as a student at UBC, which is where you find me now.

In the lecture video, the idea of not approaching literature in one single way is fascinating but also challenging. Throughout my experience in academia, I have sometimes felt the need to complete assignments instead of approaching them with care. If there is anything I hope to achieve in this course, it is to approach the literature with the sense of care and nurturing through close reading.

– Clandestino