Journal , Life Compass, Multigenre Reflection by Felipe Del Rosario

             Last year, I had to do a journal with 40 entries and 30 life compasses. But this year was different. This year, I had to do 40 entries, 10 life compass and I had to work on a new section called "The multigenre section". In this section, I have works related to topics worked in class. This trimester, the journal wasn't a burden. Although, I got to admit that it’s a bad idea to work on the journal when you’re very tired. I had a lot to write about on the journal. There is so much going in Puerto Rico that it wasn't difficult for me to search for something to say. I talked about politics, social status, university struggles, family and happy times. Also, I noticed that when I write nonstop for ten minutes, I write one whole page. This meant that if I wrote a whole page, ten minutes will pass. This helped me because now I could write without being preoccupied for the timer. Also, it helped me concentrate more on the topic I was writing about.

          I hated writing my entries when I was falling asleep. And I didn't know how to not get asleep. Sometimes, I was writing about and awesome topic, but I couldn't finish writing because I was so tired that my eyes started to close, and my handwriting started to get messed up. Thanks to this I noticed that writing for a long time without stopping, it isn't one of my abilities. Also, I didn't like to the entries in places with a bunch of people talking or interrupting me. This type of places made me lose focus of what I was writing, and I didn't like that at all. At first, I also didn't like the idea of having a multigenre section because it was something new and I saw it as more work. But then it wasn't so bad at all because it wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be. The only bad thing was that to work on that section, I had to write about my past, which I don't like, but I passed through that, so it wasn't such a big deal. 

          I liked a lot that the life compasses were simpler this semester. We only had to do 20 life compasses and they could be as simple as we wanted to. I liked a simpler life compass because I could resume and simplify how I was feeling that day. I didn't have much twelves in the life compasses, but I had a lot of nines which is a good number. This could be because of all the changes that had been in the trimester at the university. I liked that I felt freer and less stressed than the last year about the journal in general because this time I knew better how to manage my time and remembered to not leave the entries for the end.

          In conclusion, I liked more the journal of this trimester than the one from last semester. The thing I liked the most was having less life compasses to do because it made the journal simpler. The thing I liked the least was getting tired of writing and falling asleep while doing my journal entries. What I learned from this journal was that is always a bad idea when you feel super tired. 

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