Journal Project

Writing about your feelings can sometimes be very difficult. Or just like writing every little word that’s in your mind in a journal can too be difficult. Maybe that’s just me because I have never done a project like this before. Sure, in high school, I did a project similar to this but it didn’t have the life compass nor the part of the multi genre. That project was about writing everyday in a notebook about an important person from Puerto Rico. For example, Eugenio Maria de Hostos or Pedro Albizu Campos or Jose Celso Barbosa. But in this project, I just couldn’t find the relation to class (I know, I know my mind is really slow) nor know if I was gonna learn something from it. “This project is just going to take my time and what the hell am I supposed to write if my mind is always blank” Oh man was I wrong.

The first thing that we did for the journal project was put pictures of the our internal and outside journeys in the cover of the notebook. For the side of my internal journey, I put pictures of a Passport, my family, a library, a graduation, quotes and Harry Potter. This is because a few of my aspirations in life is to travel the world, graduate from my university with honors and have a big library in my future home. In the side of my external journey, there’s pictures of my high school graduation, me in New York City (a dream come true), me watching my first ever musical (Anastasia), my first tattoo (this increase my desire to get more) and a quote saying “your story isn’t over”. At first doing this journal was a little bit hard seeing as I don’t how to put all that’s in my mind in words to a page. But it turns out that it became so easy for me and helped me transport into a calm state. I don’t know why this but writing everything that’s worrying you it feels so good. One time, I was so mad at the world that I wanted to cry so much and when I wrote all of those feelings, it immediately went away. So I guess this was an internal journey for me because I learned that having a journal can really help you know yourself better.

 I had no idea what was a life compass but during this project, I learned that it was, well, a compass for your feelings. It has 4 parts: spiritual, mental, emotional and physical. I was always low on the physical part because I’m always tired. Looking back to the beginning of this journey, my life compass has increase so much and I think that is because of how good I feel when I’m writing. If I compare the beginning of my journal/life compass to the end, I could see how more emotional my entries have become. How my life compass went from a 6 to an 11. This is a great way to measure your feelings and I’m glad that it was part of this project. Now the muti genre was so good for me because I love doing creative things. I drew a comic, did a collage of pictures from the take a walk project, explained a painting and put pictures of my room. It was a really good way to express ourselves doing other things besides writing. In conclusion, I went through a journey for this project in which it helped me better my life. So thank you, professor, for including this in your class!