So this is my blog for the course I guess, I’m not sure how personal or therein professional this has to be but I feel if I make it more personal I can be more open with my thoughts and opinions on the course. Hopefully then it will be a tad more interesting to read, although if I’m wrong I’m sure I’ll be told to be more prim and proper with it and we’ll adjust for that.
Going over my notes for week 1, I feel like I have a clearer idea of why I picked this module and what I want from it. Initially, I chose this because I simply didn’t like the look of the other modules that were available to me but now I feel a little more interested/committed to this topic. I have already seen slithers of postcolonial life in Latin America thanks to the project I did last semester and I think it would be more interesting to see the post colonial eras of other countries to give me a broader sense of the topic. So that’s what I want from this module. To deepen my knowledge and understanding of what life was like during those time periods and how that has affected them in the present day.
For week 2, I was a little nervous going into it based off of how many words were in the list/table that I couldn’t recognise. It was the same anxiety you would get looking over a translation exercise and being unable to figure out what an unknown word could mean, even with the benefit of it being in a sentence to give it a little context. A lot of it is still foreign to me but I feel like I have a bit of a better grip on it. I think I might just have to revert back to my notes every now and again to keep it fresh in my head.