Hi! This is what I look like!
Photo by Melanie Foster, personal use.
Cheers to a new blog!
Ideally, you, the reader, and I, the writer, have never actually met before. Lucky for the both of us, there's much to learn! I truly believe that writing about anything makes one more knowledgeable than before they wrote about it.
While I don't have an eight-course thesis about myself, there are some basic components I would prefer people to know about me before the rest of who I am. Let us begin.
-I hate frogs.
I do not know where this originated from since this feels like a recent phobia. I remember I was not frightened or even close to crying when I dissected a frog in my 7th-grade math class. In fact, I was the leader of my group that did most of the dissecting and identifying of the innards. Now, however, if I see a frog after a rainy day in Norman town, I will cry. Immediately. It's not like anything traumatic happened, I'm just like this now.
-I am studying public relations.
And it is going simply okay. I chose to study it because I want to specialize in making connections and striving within them. I think there is something very special about human connection and I want to be a part of them as much as possible for the rest of my life. While I'm not sure exactly what I want to get myself into, I want to work with non-profits. Whether it is education or social programs or whatever, I just want to do some good.
-I love food videos.
As of right now, I am heavily into dumplings and how they are made and how they are eaten. I'm not totally sure how it started but it makes me want dumplings very much. And when they pour that chili oil on top? Ugh I don't want to veer off but I do think they are very important.
That's really about all I can think of right now! Which may sound silly in and of itself but it really is who I am!
Here's to a great semester!
Reety it is great to have you as my classmate, one thing I find common between us is that I personally hate frogs too because my mum when she was in 10th grade had to give chlorofom to the frong and it was big and fat and while my mum was about to dissect it, he jumped on her and similarly when I was a kid one time my friends were playing prank on me and threw a frog on me that landed on my skirt they are ugly, live in gutters and dirty water and produce lot of baby tadpoles ewwww!!
ReplyDeleteOh, what a great picture, Reety! And I like how you describe public relations as being all about connecting; that's why I like teaching online: it feels so much more connected than the classroom ever did (especially when it was a big class, like Myth-Folklore). I'm a fan of frogs, it's true (well, I love STORIES about frogs anyway...), so there we differ, but we definitely agree about dumplings. And there are so many kinds of dumplings, of course... Wikipedia even has a giant list of dumplings, although I am kind of afraid to click on that, because I know it will make me hungry, ha ha: List of dumplings at Wikipedia ... maybe for this class you can explore the geography of the Indian epics and pair that up with the geography of dumplings, so that as the heroes travel all over India, north, south, east, west, they can eat the kind of dumpling that is most popular wherever they go! Epic dumplings: yummmmm...! :-)
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ReplyDeleteGiven your introduction, I think an online course like this where you will be connecting online will really be valuable to you! I Forging friendships or relationships offline sometimes feels more vulnerable and difficult- maybe this is just a consequence of growing up in the digital age? Or perhaps it is just my own social awkwardness? You seem like a friendly and hospitable person, so maybe this does not afflict you! Either way, perhaps you will enjoy the Extra Credit opportunities in this class that allows greater communication with our classmates? I love the tidbit about your frog phobia- I can relate in some way! I am the same way about worms, and I recall being equally horrified by the science class experiments where we had to dissect earthworms. Safe to say that science is not a subject for everyone!
Hey Reety! I really like your introduction and how you set it up. I like how you started off with the frog phobia and I get it. Frogs just creep me out and I can't really pinpoint why. As long as we keep to ourselves, I'm okay with them though. I also really like the reasoning you have behind your major. It was cool to see why you chose it besides what you were doing with it.
ReplyDeleteHi Reety! I really like the creativity of your introduction here. Instead of doing a really forumlaic name, hometown, major, hobbies, etc. list, you told us anecdotes about your past and gave us a much better insight into your personality by describing how important dumplings are. I really feel like I got to know more about you this way! I think your major is super interesting, and you're doing well on the human connection front, since I really felt like you introduced yourself as a real human being here.
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