What were the main ideas we learned this past week?

One of the main ideas that I learned this week is just keep going, even when some thing seems hard or doesn't interest you. We all know that when we get to a task that seems hard and takes too much time we just begin to procrastinate and put off doing it. But if you just tough it out and do what you are supposed to do, it will make it that much easier on you. 

To make myself focus on something I like to just put my music in and just forget about my surroundings, it helps my keep my mind on the task that I need to get done. Focusing on things that you don't understand is hard, because it doesn't hold your interest. So you just have to find your zone and really concentrate on it. 

I think that this was important to learn because it helped my get my 'This I Believe' paper done 2 days before most people had theirs done. At first I didn't like that whole point of the assignment and I didn't like the fact that we had to record ourselves and try to work this video website, which I did not understand at first. But I just focused because I knew i had to do it anyway, so I started to mess with it a little bit and began to understand how the website worked, and that made me like the assignment twenty times more than I did before. 
 
You just have to have some drive in you and you have to want to get your work done, and if you just spending a little time allowing yourself to understanf

The main idea that we learned this week in class was to put emotion into our writing, to have some passion when we tell our story. Not only does it help you become a better writer, but it also intrigues the reader a lot more. When people can feel what you feel through words, I would consider it a powerful story, because that is not an easy thing to do. 

Learning that this week took time, it took me a while to really figure out the right words to use, I didn't want anything too simple but I didn't want anything to big that would not sound like me. 

We wrote a paper this week titled 'This I Believe' and it was about a belief that we had and with it we had to write something personal on why we believed that. it took me 3 days to figure out what I wanted to say, my belief kept changing. None of the things that I came up with sounded right to me. But I finally figured out that I need to just stick to it and write and put my emotions into it, it would come together. And it did, my story turned out well in my opinion. 

One other thing we learned this week was that stories are powerful, we learned that people tend to remember and listen better when they are told things through story, rather than being listed off. And I truly believe that, because stories catch our imagination, we get to picture things the way we want. I think that any story with the right wording and the right emotion put into can be powerful and make people listen. 

I really like what we are doing in class this week because it is helping me to write more than just words, it is helping me to put emotion into my writing and allowing my story to become personal. It can be hard, I'll admit. At first I was not a big fan of what we were doing, but now I like it and I'm really starting to get into a lot more.