1. I’m a procrastinator. Every time a new assignment is released, I get anxious. I will first look at the assignment and then plan when to complete it. But every time I would get anxious, like making the assignment too complicated, which is actually a very simple question, I used to think about a lot. I plan to use Eickmeyer’s “Listen and take notes when the instructor explains the assignment” to help me effectively write down words that may be important in the assignment. Because I’m usually a person who doesn’t take notes. I might have heard the professor say something about the assignment in class and remembered it. But I somtime will forgot it when I actually started doing it. So I think this is a good way to avoid asking for too much and not remembering it later.
2. Thinking of Ku’s example literacy narrative, I can think of I had a similar experience with the Ku. First of all, I would like to introduce two places, both in China, one is Guangzhou (a big city), and the other is Jiangmen (where my parents were born, which is also my hometown). I was born in Guangzhou, went to school in Guangzhou, made friends in Guangzhou. I may only go back to my hometown once a year, but every time I go back to my hometown, people always says to me, “You come from the city”, “you don’t belong here”. “Are you going back soon? “It’s dirty here, there are so many fun things to do in Guangzhou, why do you still want to come back?”. But deep down in my heart, the two places are not that different, my grandparents are here, I come back to visit them. But my own life is in Guangzhou, I want to go back to continue my life for no doubt. But why do people back home think I’m a spoiled brat who lives in a fancy city kid? However, as time goes by, I don’t care what these people say, because I know that these two places are closely related to me, and I have the opportunity to enjoy two completely different lifestyles, I will come back to live with my grandparents for a while when I am tired. Missing my friends, I returned to Guangzhou to enjoy the convenience of the fast pace and more developed big cities. Is that bad？ No, it’s totally fine.
Thanks for this, Nana. You capture the pain of living between two worlds, but you also describe the deep loyalty you feel to both of these worlds.