When I did my inner
journey through my English journal I wrote 41 entries and 24 compasses. While I reviewed my journal I felt that I could
reflect about my own life and what define my own person. I also note a lot of
changes in my writing process. Specifically, I increased the amount of writing
using the same amount of time. I personally improved my writing skill because I
felt that I experimented the experience of lose the control, don’t get logical
and go for the jugular. I also liked a lot the activity of the compasses
because briefly I could express my feelings and thoughts. The compasses were
like a concept map in which you could briefly summarize what you felt
instantly. In the compasses you also assigned rankings numbers (one = bad, two =
medium, and three = excellent) to your emotional state, spiritual state,
physical state and mental state.
I consider the journal
helped me to understand my inner journey. It helped me to reflect about my
inner process. I think practice is fundamental to learn and through the journal
we can practice the English. An important in sight through my inner journey was
when I wrote about my journey to the National Institute of Health (NHI) at
Washington, Maryland. I wrote in the journal about this experience during five
days. I could not stop to write in the journal about my feelings and thoughts
during this experience. When I wrote about this experience I related my inner and
external journey. I reflected about my experience as a traveler. I wrote about
my experiences in the interviews at NHI, the airplane and the airport, the city
and the hotels. During this experience I lived a lot of things that helped me
to grow in my inner and external journey. For example I was stuck in Dulles at
Washington Airport for three days. These
days I experimented different situation that I have never imagined I would
live. First my flight was cancelled for
mechanical issues, second there was not flight to get back Puerto Rico later
because the snowstorm, third the airline did not coordinate well my flight to
Puerto Rico the next day so I get stuck one day more and finally I got a flight
to get back to Puerto Rico three days later. These were hard and intense
experiences. This was the reason I wrote in my journal about it, because during
my experience I just observed and take time to write in the journal to help me
to reflect and to relax myself.
I had the opportunity
to learn a lot about the identity concept with this activity. I discovered
through the journal that identity means what really defines every human being.
Identity is the notion that characterizes a person. The inner journey is part
of the identity notion, because it represents the portion of the process that
differentiates each person. I think this exercise is perfect to practice the
English writing process. However, I suggest as a future idea that may be student
could make a free drawing, abstract or concrete, that express their feelings
and thoughts three times per week similar to the compass. Finally, I learned
with the journal that the inner journey represents our personality, feelings,
thoughts, emotions and desires. The inner journey is the travel through our
mind to discover what define us.
I enjoy your cover photos of your journal, they must have a special meaning for you. I agree with you with what the inner journey means and how it is part of your identity. Great reflection Laura
ReplyDeleteI love your collage. You summarized well the way the journal helped you throughout your stay in Maryland. I can see that it was a very helpful tool and it guided you during your visit and at the airport. Great reflection!
ReplyDeleteI see these journal be a very useful tool to you, and I think that is part of the intention of make it. I like you reflection and your photos.
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