Nick Serrao Week 3 Reading Responses

It it currently 3AM right now, I should be asleep, but no, I am doing my English homework that I procrastinated of course. While reading this paper I felt like Eickmeyer was specifically writing about me and my tendencies, he described me to a T. I read Eickmeyer’s description of anxiety and aversion and i can personally relate to them, as this is how i feel towards the upcoming literacy narrative. One of the statements that stuck with me was, “uncertainty about what the assignment requires or how to fulfill it”. This has always been a problem for me when it came to open ended assignments, when you can write about whatever you want and there are little to no guidelines. For me, i just feel like i genuinely don’t know what to write about in my literacy narrative, and thats okay, because i know i’m not the only one. In my upcoming assignments including the narrative, i will be trying my best to focus on the content of the assignment. If i sit down and think hard about what to write about, something will eventually pop up.

I do not personally relate to Ku’s example of being Asian-American, because I am just American. Well, not just American, I am Italian and Polish, but my family and I only speak English, therefore i can not relate to being sought out as a foreigner amongst others. I feel like two worlds that I exist between are, this may sound silly but, being skinny and chubby. I was skinny when i was younger but around middle school was when i began to gain a little bit of weight, and i haven’t been able to shed it since. The thing is, It has never been enough weight for me to sit down and think, “wow, I need to make a change”. I am in that in between area, where i can definitely loose a couple of pounds, but i still look good. I still look sort of skinny when in public, but in my eyes I am not perfect, nobody is, but i still need to work on it.