ENC 1101-B3 & B4: Writing for Discovery

The dark and morbid setting is unsettling to the stomach. Looking over the open acres, one can only imagine how dangerous the biggest open minefield in the world can be. Snipers in their towers line the border, manned 24/7, stare and follow even the most innocent of tourists with their scopes. Opposing forces on both sides are constantly on duty, separated only by the cold barbed-wire fences. This is the most dangerous place in the world. This is the border between North and South Korea, the most heavily guarded border in the world.

I changed my intended major the other day. I was undeclared for a while, but when I started researching other majors I decided that Political Science was for me. For one, it has alot to do with history, government and politics which is right up my alley. I'm really into that kind of stuff to begin with anyway.

I really don't have to take as many as finals as my peers seem to do. Regardless though, I know I'm going to have to study pretty hard for all of them. I only have three official final exams to take total and it's spread out amongst Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. That is kind of nice because it gives me a day between each to study. My first exam that I have to take is Chemistry. That is the one that I really have to do well on. In order to pull off a decent grade in that class I need to ace this final!

I’m pretty satisfied with my new draft of my Portfolio. I didn’t get many comments last time that gave me pointers on what to do to improve so that was kind of a bummer. Then again, at first I wasn’t giving very constructive comments either until the last part of class when Mr. Lowe kindly corrected me. So I had to go solo on this one.

The dark and morbid setting is unsetting to the stomach. Looking over the open acres, one can only imagine how dangerous the biggest open minefield in the world can be. Snipers in their towers line the border, manned 24/7, stare and follow even the most innocent of tourists with their scopes. Opposing forces on both sides are constantly on duty, separated only by the cold barbed-wire fences. This is the most dangerous place in the world. This is the border between North and South Korea, the most heavily guarded border in the world.

I had a very good thanksgiving. A friend of mine came to visit for the thanksgiving weekend and we had a very good time hanging out together. On Thursday, I ate a lot of turkey dinner for the feast with the family. I wasn't able to eat that much, oddly only one serving. That is pitiful compared to my previous records! On Friday, I picked up my friend from the greyhound station near my home. We didn't do much Friday.

I’m pretty satisfied with my current portfolio draft. I decided to write on the Exploratory C topic because it was something that interested me more and I felt I could make a good draft out of the topic. I however wanted to be more creative on the changes to this portfolio draft than I was earlier in the semester.

The dark and morbid setting is unsetting to the stomach. Looking over the open acres, one can only imagine how dangerous the biggest open minefield in the world can be. Snipers in their towers line the border, manned 24/7, stare and follow even the most innocent of tourists with their scopes. Barbed-wire lines the cold steel fence that separates these two opposing forces, on duty constantly. This is the most dangerous place in the world. This is the border between North and South Korea.

I can't wait for thanksgiving break but I don't understand why alot of other schools have super long breaks compared to us. I'm trying to spend thanksgiving with two of my friends but it's really hard when both of them get off of school a WEEK earlier than me. I don't know, I guess that it's fine to have just the day off for thanksgiving and a long weekend, and it probably should be that way for every school. I guess I'm just being a cry baby.

Everyone said that the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was going to be a scary movie. I don’t know I just don’t think it was that scary. The whole movie didn’t really seem to have enough story going for it and it was more weird than scary. I wish they also would have showed the killer’s face, that would have been cool. They always had the camera angle at a weird position though when he was on film, and we never get to see his face clearly. I found myself throughout the movie squinting and trying to get a glimpse of his face rather than watch the horrible killings.

I think that I have improved upon my 2nd draft from the first greatly. I followed the rules of the revision assignment strictly and I think I have a good product. It was hard to transition my original story into a different point of view of narration. When I got started on it though, it started to flow nicely and the revision wasn’t too hard. I tried to put a little more dialogue into the story this time also.

“Gosh this road is so long, when is it ever going to end?” I said to myself as I drove down the open road. There really are no cars on this road to keep me company and it’s making the drive seem like forever. Then again, it is 5 am in the morning so that probably explains it. Well now that this road is taking forever it’s really giving me time to reflect on why the heck I have to be out here solo anyway. I’m too young to be doing this alone and I hate to say it but I really need my parents. But forget them for now, they aren’t a part of my life for now.

We were going to have a birthday party for my friend this weekend. It ended up getting together but it certainly took a lot of organization and time on my behalf. I felt like I was the only one who was trying to do something productive to get this birthday party off the ground. I went around and talked to people to get others to come to this party. I was also driving all day long picking up things for the party with some other friends. It was a very hectic day.

I’m very bummed. I wasn’t able to go to the NC State game today so I’m very bummed. I lent a friend my Student ID since I wasn’t going to the game and I found myself needing that card the rest of the evening. I wanted to go eat at RFOC during halftime, but no, my meal plan was no good without an FSU card. I’m broke at the moment so I don’t have the option of spending any cash of my own. Before THAT though, a friend called me and said “Hey John, we have an extra ticket to the game, want to go?”

I had a hard time thinking about what I should base my short story on. Even though it was fiction, I thought I’d have a hard time coming up with a story out of the blue. So, as I’ve heard many fiction writers do, I loosely based this draft on a real-life event in one of my friend’s lives. It sounded like a good story and I thought it would be intriguing to narrate the character’s story.