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Jul. 17th, 2014 09:13 amHello, everybody!
And by everybody I mean the few crazy people who still read my blog posts =P
I finally did my English Final Project presentation yesterday and..... IT WAS THE BEST THING EVER....!!! So, I didn't want to do the usual video with me telling my personal experienced learning English as pretty much everybody did... My project was somehow a book fair called "Equeally Different" to celebrate diversity and cultures and to overcome discrimination, stereotypes, racism and stuff like that xD So, my brother and I did a video presenting the fair.
My professor wrote that last book, "The North is a Chimera". I had already read it last semester and this time I read "The House on Mango Street". By this moment of my presentation, professor Plata was already excited at the fact that I did all the videos with my bro and even animated two, which it's a lotof hard work. Most of the guys only presented one video, even those who worked in pairs. And i was all by myself, so I guess that's why he was sooooo happy with my presentation.B
But that wasn't all, of course. I managed to write a reaaaaaally short story of 13K words more or less and with the help of a friend, I turned it into a novel-looking book xDD And I presented it, presented a teaser video for it and read the first chapter. I still can't believe I actually read the start of an akame fic in front of my class xDD
And that's how my presentation finished. A lot of my friends were incredible happy and impressed by the amount of effort I put into this and by the result. Some girls even cried with the video of "A Step from Heaven" and it's not like I wanted them to cry, but that means I did it right. But what really really made my day was the fact that professor tolf me: "I'm greatly impressed."
He had been asking the other guys at the end of their presentations questions about the making process of about bits of their reflection. He didn't ask me anything. I mean, during the videos he asked me if I had done the vids and stuff, but at the end nothing. He just asked me if I had thought about publishing that book, with all the craft and effort I put into it. And I replied honestly, saying that I would love to, but that I rushed a lot of things and want to edit it and complete it and just work a bit more on it since I did it in less than a weekokay, I didn't say that last part, ofc /bricked And do you guys know what he told me??????? *,*
He said: "Well, okay. If you are really interested in publishing it, let's just talk about it later."
Publishing.A.Book.
Me.
My.Book.
Published.
May be a reality *,*
That's just how my brain got after he said that! All my life I've wanted to publish anything, really, since I've been writing pretty much since I was a baby. But a) I have no confidence whatsoever that what I write deserves to be published and b) I live in Venezuela and here publishing stuff is nothing but a foolish dream. But this might be my opportunity and I just can't believe it yet.
I'm gonna need all the help you guys can lend me not to lose my head here xD I already sent the story to a couple of classmates and to my sister for further opinion. And ofc I know I have to change the names of Jin and Kame and maybe take the chance to create some OCsunlike the girl from 50 Shades of Grey and I'm aware of a few scenes I didn't include in this first "edition" and all, but if any of you would like to read it and give more feedback, I would appreaciate it forever and ever more!
And this is like some sort of sign for me. Because I thought seriously about participating in two short story and essay writing contests that will take place in September because somehow I can see that my Uni can actually give me the opportunity to make my dream come true.
I mean, can you guys believe it???????? *,*
I honestly still can't!! xDD But anyway, thanks for reading this up until here. Hope you enjoyed the vids and... idk, thanks for reading in general xDD
Love you all!
Nory (^_^)v
And by everybody I mean the few crazy people who still read my blog posts =P
I finally did my English Final Project presentation yesterday and..... IT WAS THE BEST THING EVER....!!! So, I didn't want to do the usual video with me telling my personal experienced learning English as pretty much everybody did... My project was somehow a book fair called "Equeally Different" to celebrate diversity and cultures and to overcome discrimination, stereotypes, racism and stuff like that xD So, my brother and I did a video presenting the fair.
Then we did some video teasers about the books we read in class for the semester.... All of them sort of have the same structure and the same themes in common, about cultures and discrimination and identity, of course.... I loved especially what me and bro did for "The House on Mango Street" and "The Color of my Words" because they were animated by us *,*
My professor wrote that last book, "The North is a Chimera". I had already read it last semester and this time I read "The House on Mango Street". By this moment of my presentation, professor Plata was already excited at the fact that I did all the videos with my bro and even animated two, which it's a lotof hard work. Most of the guys only presented one video, even those who worked in pairs. And i was all by myself, so I guess that's why he was sooooo happy with my presentation.B
But that wasn't all, of course. I managed to write a reaaaaaally short story of 13K words more or less and with the help of a friend, I turned it into a novel-looking book xDD And I presented it, presented a teaser video for it and read the first chapter. I still can't believe I actually read the start of an akame fic in front of my class xDD
And that's how my presentation finished. A lot of my friends were incredible happy and impressed by the amount of effort I put into this and by the result. Some girls even cried with the video of "A Step from Heaven" and it's not like I wanted them to cry, but that means I did it right. But what really really made my day was the fact that professor tolf me: "I'm greatly impressed."
He had been asking the other guys at the end of their presentations questions about the making process of about bits of their reflection. He didn't ask me anything. I mean, during the videos he asked me if I had done the vids and stuff, but at the end nothing. He just asked me if I had thought about publishing that book, with all the craft and effort I put into it. And I replied honestly, saying that I would love to, but that I rushed a lot of things and want to edit it and complete it and just work a bit more on it since I did it in less than a week
He said: "Well, okay. If you are really interested in publishing it, let's just talk about it later."
Publishing.A.Book.
Me.
My.Book.
Published.
May be a reality *,*
That's just how my brain got after he said that! All my life I've wanted to publish anything, really, since I've been writing pretty much since I was a baby. But a) I have no confidence whatsoever that what I write deserves to be published and b) I live in Venezuela and here publishing stuff is nothing but a foolish dream. But this might be my opportunity and I just can't believe it yet.
I'm gonna need all the help you guys can lend me not to lose my head here xD I already sent the story to a couple of classmates and to my sister for further opinion. And ofc I know I have to change the names of Jin and Kame and maybe take the chance to create some OCs
And this is like some sort of sign for me. Because I thought seriously about participating in two short story and essay writing contests that will take place in September because somehow I can see that my Uni can actually give me the opportunity to make my dream come true.
I mean, can you guys believe it???????? *,*
I honestly still can't!! xDD But anyway, thanks for reading this up until here. Hope you enjoyed the vids and... idk, thanks for reading in general xDD
Love you all!
Nory (^_^)v
