Week 11 Famous Last Words

I would be understating it if I were to say that this week has been hectic. The business and stress have been absolutely insane. This week I actually had to drive all the way down to Dallas, Texas right after one of my classes so that I could go to a job interview the next morning. Then after the interview I had to quickly change so that I could drive all the way back up here to Norman. I basically drove to Dallas and back in about twenty-four hours!!! How crazy is that? And because of all this craziness of classes and projects and presentations and job interviews, my body has literally been running on empty so at this point I am just crashing. I literally feel asleep for about five minutes while I was typing this! I just feel as though I need a break from things. I have been trying to get ahead of everything, but some how that has backfired as well. I honestly think that I just need an entire day to sleep and then maybe my body will restart itself, kind of like a reboot button.

Anyway, Easter was pretty nice yesterday. On Saturday one of my closest girl friends and I went on an Easter egg hunt around our apartment complex. I am pretty sure the entire thing was rigged and the majority of the residents cheated. I got bored and at one point found a bunch of Cards Against Humanity cards scattered all around the back of the complex. It was practically an entire box! So she and I decided to pick them up and pair them together and leave them on the little clips outside of peoples front doors. It was really funny and a really nice way to spend some time with a good friend.

 Ukrainian Easter Eggs (Source) 

Week 11 Essay

While I did enjoy the readings (my favorite of which being the Mahabharata), the Untextbook is definitely one of my favorite options. I think what makes the untextbook option so much fun is that there is so much variety with that option because you are able to read so many different stories.

This week I read the Santal Folktales. I thought some of the stories were interesting and entertaining, but this was not my favorite unit thus far. My personal favorite was definitely the Indian Fairy Tales. The stories were not too long and not too detailed but they were incredibly fun and entertaining. I wish that I were able to read them again and do another storytelling from this unit because I just loved it so much! I had read them once before last semester for Mythology and Folklore and did, what I consider, one of my best storytellings from that unit.

Back to the Santal Folktales… I am not quite sure why, but for some reason I had a difficult time deciding what to do for my storytelling. I had to have written at least the beginnings of three different stories and I still could not decide on which one to do. The stories were just not as exciting as some of the previous units and I found them to be more difficult when thinking creatively. Unfortunately it did not meet my expectations for this week, which was a little disappointing. Usually while I am reading I will be in the middle of a story and my mind will just start coming up with a storytelling. It is like a zap or like something within me just takes over, in a creative way of course! This one unit in particular did not seem to have as many connections as previous units I have read, but they were not bad.  

Busy Street in India (Source)

Week 11 Reading Diary A: Santal Folktales

Santal Folktales

Ledha and the Leopard was actually a really great story. I enjoyed it and could see it written from Ledha's perspective. He sure did get himself into a mess of trouble.

Leopard (Source)