Week 8 Reading and Writing Review

File:The baby's own Aesop - being the fables condensed in rhyme with portable morals pictorially pointed by Walter Crane. Engraved and printed in colours by Edmund Evans (1908) (14566723300).jpg
The Fox and the Crane on Wikimedia
Overall, I am pleased with how I am doing in Mythology and Folklore. At the beginning of the semester, I was a little worried about the course load for this class and for Epics of India, which has the same format. The assignments are not hard, but they are time-consuming. I usually work over thirty hours a week, and my shifts almost always start at 4:30 a.m.! So, I am frequently very tired and I have to push myself to get work done.
My favorite post from this class has been the Introduction to my Storybook, In the Seven Woods. It is a project inspired by the collection of one play and a number of poems by the famous Irish poet, W. B. Yeats. I have always been interested in Ireland, since it is the only place that I know for a fact I have family from. My introductory post sounds intriguing and I am looking forward to working on the stories for the project in the coming weeks.
For the weekly Storytelling, the reading notes do help me some. I look back at them in order to choose my story and remember some key aspects of the tales, but once that is done, I focus on adding my own voice to what I can recall of the stories. I think that not referring back to the original tale too much is helpful in adding my own creative voice to my stories.
Looking forward, I would like to settle into my routine even further. For the last two weeks, I have made schedules for myself to tell me when I need get specific assignments done. This has been useful, and I am sure it will be even more important for me to keep this up since I am starting to work on projects in all of my courses.
I chose the image of the Fox and the Crane because Aesop's fables have been some of the most amusing, wise, and informative readings in this course.

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