WOOT! School is over!
I just had my last class and this post is coming to you straight from the computer lab at the Kwantlen surrey campus. I told my self this would be my treat after my in-class essay and while I wait for the bus to take me home. So this is me indulging.
My last creative writing class was yesterday and all we do in our last class is read something of ours aloud. I love the readings. I love reading my own work and I love hearing what everyone else is doing. It makes me sad that it’s the last class; however, as I’d love to speak to certain people about what they read after class, but usually there’s too many people to talk to and everyone just takes off cuz WOOT it’s the last class. Bastards...
My creative writing teacher, Patrick Friesen, is incredible as a teacher and fascinating as a human being. He reminds me of both my dad and a little of myself, possibly, in the future. After class, I made a point of shaking his hand and thanking him for a great year. I know my writing has seriously improved since I’ve been studying under him. He told me, “A teacher lucks out when they get a student that’s both skilled and an outstanding person. You’re a good guy, man.” I love how he says man when he means to be more personal. I think it’s rad. Part of me wonders whether what he said was simply meant to be courteous or if (God forbid) it’s actually true. I think (and am hoping) that it was heart felt. He did say man...
Now for some other cool stuff. My friend Malcolm finally updated his blog!! And with a super quality entry on appreciating art, music specifically, but really, you can apply his argument to basically all aspects of life. I think that an important part of being able to understand and, lets be corny for a moment, “live in harmony with your fellow man” is by doing what he said, in terms of understanding one another's perspectives. I’m having trouble deciding on how exactly to talk about his post without just copying and pasting the whole thing so here’s something that may entice you:
Read it here.
In other news, I found this on Meegee’s blog. Is this serious? I mean seriously...
I just had my last class and this post is coming to you straight from the computer lab at the Kwantlen surrey campus. I told my self this would be my treat after my in-class essay and while I wait for the bus to take me home. So this is me indulging.
My last creative writing class was yesterday and all we do in our last class is read something of ours aloud. I love the readings. I love reading my own work and I love hearing what everyone else is doing. It makes me sad that it’s the last class; however, as I’d love to speak to certain people about what they read after class, but usually there’s too many people to talk to and everyone just takes off cuz WOOT it’s the last class. Bastards...
My creative writing teacher, Patrick Friesen, is incredible as a teacher and fascinating as a human being. He reminds me of both my dad and a little of myself, possibly, in the future. After class, I made a point of shaking his hand and thanking him for a great year. I know my writing has seriously improved since I’ve been studying under him. He told me, “A teacher lucks out when they get a student that’s both skilled and an outstanding person. You’re a good guy, man.” I love how he says man when he means to be more personal. I think it’s rad. Part of me wonders whether what he said was simply meant to be courteous or if (God forbid) it’s actually true. I think (and am hoping) that it was heart felt. He did say man...
Now for some other cool stuff. My friend Malcolm finally updated his blog!! And with a super quality entry on appreciating art, music specifically, but really, you can apply his argument to basically all aspects of life. I think that an important part of being able to understand and, lets be corny for a moment, “live in harmony with your fellow man” is by doing what he said, in terms of understanding one another's perspectives. I’m having trouble deciding on how exactly to talk about his post without just copying and pasting the whole thing so here’s something that may entice you:
I have always felt that for us to understand art in general, not just music, we have to sort of drop our existing preferences and look at something as it should be looked at.
…If we were to understand the framework of proper evaluation, then we can rightly understand art across its different expressive mediums.
Read it here.
In other news, I found this on Meegee’s blog. Is this serious? I mean seriously...
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