Immigration Project Reflection

The lit circle book that I had an opportunity to read was, A long way gone by Ishmael Beah. I was really happy when I got the book A long way gone, because I really wanted to read this book, because it seemed very interesting, and at the same time cool. I wanted to read this book because I wanted to know what was happening at Sierra Leone at the time. I wanted to learn how the war in Sierra Leone affected the kids that were in the war. While reading the book I learned that everybody should be grateful about everything they have, and that they shouldn’t take their life lightly, because in the book the main character experienced a lot in a couple of years in Sierra Leone, and experienced how war affects everybody and how devastating it is. In the lit circle process I wouldn’t add anything, because in the process it basically had everything in the blog post. I felt that blogging instead of writing down our lit circle paper was much easier, because if you had to write it down you might lose the paper and the next day you don’t have anything, but when you do the blog posts you could do it any time. I really had no problems with the blogging experience. I learned that a lot of people have different views then yourself.

I felt that it was really hard choosing on which painting I should do, because their were a lot of options on what kind of paintings I should do, but it became easier, because it was kind of hard for me to write artist statements on the other art components. I think there was an easily connection made between with my art component to my lit book, because in my book the main characters favorite songs were put into my painting, so it really connected to my painting. I think the final product of my painting turned our really nicely, because it was very colorful, the music notes were perfect, and I didn’t mess up on the cassette tape. I think my final product would’ve been better if I wrote more nicely on the lyrics of the songs that I added in my painting. I learned that a book could easily be changed into an art piece, because in most books there could be a remake of the books cover and in books there has to be at least one scene that struck you in the book, or there ever has to be a cultural component that you could draw of the book.
The interview process was smooth, and it was also difficult at times. The interview was smooth, because I would never disrupt the person while they were talking, but it was also difficult, because the person I interviewed is kind of like a brother in law to me so I disrupted him one, and asked him a random question. I felt that interviewing the person once was hard already, but interviewing the person three times is hard especially in three different methods. I learned that Thailand is so much different then America, because my person said in Thailand it’s never boring, because you could do anything like fishing, but in America you could only stay home, and watch TV, or play video games. Interviewing the person actually really fitted in with the curriculum, because we had to learn the basics of where the person came from, and ask them their experiences.