Journal Experience

          This journal was like a diary, well that’s what a journal is. A journal that helps to store our ideas and stories. To store our memories that we want to write. Also it helps to control our ideas and organize them while writing. Not only that it helped us, well to me, to have something to tell everything. To have like someone that could hear everything I said. To have someone to talk, even the things that I usually don’t talk about with my best friends. On other things it have help me on one of the most important for me it’s on my one development to write faster. Write faster on essays and also to write clearer and with more ideas. It have been a great exercise for it have helped me to also see writing exercises easier.

            My experience on the journal exercise, well it have been amazing. I actually got to be more like addictive to it. For almost half of September I started to write for every day and I don’t know why. It’s that I wanted to write for every day. I had something to write for anything that I experience through the day. I kept on doing it until I was doing so for every day. Sometimes I had a lot to say for one day and sometimes I had less. That way I could even categorize my days. I started to see what days were better than others. I started to enjoy more and more the writing in my journal. It have been a great experience were it helped me a lot in a lot of ways like I have already said. For its better improvements on my writing and organization of ideas I am going to take in mind to continue to write. Maybe not every day but I will try to continue. It will all depend on my free time. To start making it on a habit and not lose the customs of writing what happen on the day.

Mixtures of Identities

            Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American novelist. She was born on May 25, 1949 in Antigua. A small island that is around St. John. Jamaica Kincaid at the present time lives in North Bennington, Vermont during the summers. Also during the academic year she teaches at the Claremont Mckenna College in Claremont, California. Also she left Antigua when she was still young so her memories of Antigua were from a long time and in all that time Antigua could have change. If Antigua changed then is like losing a little of your identity. Let me explain, it’s your identity at first because it’s your home since you were little but if It change then is like changing a little your identity including if you left that place since you were little. In this two chapters of “A small place” she talks of tourist and how they see Antigua and criticize it. But also it talks of identity and how her identity changes for all the changes to the island.

            The identity of someone can be change by not normally embrace it. For the part of Jamaica Kincaid her identity had a change because as she left young she founded another home. By getting another home it’s like adding to your identity or even changing it. It all depends on the person and how the adapt to that new place. If I’m not mistaken Jamaica Kincaid actually says that her identity changes. Jamaica Kincaid tells that by the changes that were happening to the island of Antigua that she was not seeing the Antigua she left. They were so many changes that it look so different that she barely recognize it. By giving that statement she is telling that her home changed to much foe her and by doing so it messes up her whole identity.

Travelers/Tourists

In the first chapter of “A small place” Jamaica Kincaid describes Antigua, were she was born. Kincaid describes the place as if you were arriving at first by plane as a tourist. It’s actually outstanding because we have learn that the tourists, well most of them, have different way of seeing things when they are on a new place. Especially when some tourists start to criticize for just being there such a short time living. That’s the bad thing about tourists, they tend to compare everything to their own home. That’s a tendency that they have and by doing that it narrows their minds to maybe explore newer things or cultures.

            This chapter Jamaica Kincaid gives examples on what tourists can say when they are in a new place for them. It’s like our discussion in class were we have to find comments on what people say about Puerto Rico and how they see it. In my behalf I found some negative comments about Puerto Rico that some famous or known people had said. Even though they actually had there apologizes after the comments they did. So even though they did the bad comments they actually apologize but after the comments were publish. So it can be look on both sides. On the first chapter we see how Jamaica Kincaid illustrates the tourists and their comments. Maybe she wrote it like that to open the eyes of people so that they think it twice before making a comment. Maybe it’s because she left Antigua and she is writing since she left and when she came back and how she felt when she arrived. Either way it was a nice thing to write because as I say earlier it opens the minds of other people or tourists to a better way.