Class Session - Sept 29th

Wednesday came along, only one more day to go til Friday.

We went into the classroom to find ourselves told to rearrange our seating arrangements to our birthdays! Mine is September 13th, and I ended up on the other side of the room. There was more Air Conditioner there, so I wasn't about to complain! Jimmy said the arrangement was to change our perspective, and he'll be doing something new each day. I wonder what next class session brings? I know I can look at old students' blog, if he still has them, and see if they've commented on it. Who knows if it'll be the same though?

Afterwards, we discussed what visual literacy is. No one was really answering so he was almost literally breathing down our necks, hahah. I'm not shy, exactly, not unless I have to go up and stand in front of the class to do something, but I'm not a vocal person either. My indoor voice isn't exactly very loud to boot. But visual literacy-- my answer "how we take in something we see". It's not exact, but I liked the way Daniel said it, 'interpreting', I think.

I'm not inclined to disagree! XD

He started to show us different images that we were supposed to describe. Facts first and then interpreting. It was difficult not to say 'her', even those it looked obvious from the facial structure and clothes. We're trained to be a certain way, to assume that it's a she before it's a person. It reminds me of another teacher who asked us which person would be the better witness after reading several of their observations, and failed us because none of them would be able to see clearly at 9 PM in the dark.

But, who knows-- maybe it really is a drag queen parade! We certainly have no captions to read.

We were then given pieces of paper to draw four comic strips of how we got to college. To be honest, my decisions aren't awe inspiring or .... significant. I was told to choose, so I chose CSULA. It's a close distance, and I can go there by bus. >:S