Hello my friends,

I guess that will serve as my introduction (haha). As I type away on the black and bolded letter covered keyboard of my Macbook, I think to myself why the hell am I still up writing. If my fingers could talk they would say something like, “Give it a rest! You’ve been writing for three days, we want to rest.”

Yes, I have been writing for three days straight. Why? It was assignment for my Asian American Studies R2B class. First week of class and we already had a critical paper to write. Brutal, I know. I did have fun writing it though. It was a four to five page paper, which was split into two parts. Part one was a descriptive narrative in which I had to describe an encounter, fact or fiction, where I made assumptions on someone based on how they look. In part 2, I had to connect this encounter with the film, America the Beautiful. I had to analyze how it related to the encounter, what it said about society’s ideal on beauty, and how it related to the Ethnic American experience. Let’s hope that I get a decent grade. Maybe I will share with all of you in the next few days.

I don’t know what brought this sudden urge to start this project or to write. I don’t even remember a time in high school or the past year, where I would take the time to sit down and just write. I always thought of myself who thought writing was just okay. It was something I detested when I had an assignment. I only did it when I had the urge and inspiration to write a song (though I did it sporadically). 

I guess I was just inspired to just write and get my thoughts on paper, of well “digital paper” in this case. I think the only difference now is that I actually have the patience to do it now (I hope). Let’s see where this takes me. 

- Lorenz